Hello. So back in March, my cat Charlie went missing. Here's the story:
I've had Charlie for a long time, and she was an outdoor cat. She wore a collar with our address and all on it and was well known throughout some of the neighbourhood. On March 15, I had left school late. As I was walking home, I noticed a car pulling into a driveway that looked like mine, stopping for a few seconds, and then driving off right past me. I got home and Charlie wasn't waiting for me like usual. I tried whistling, calling, and looking everywhere, but she never came. I thought maybe she had gone roaming and slept it off, thinking she would be back. A few hours later, I went back outside only to find her still gone. It struck us that she's now missing. My neighbour said that his friend had come over to cut his hair that day, and that Charlie had wandered over into his garage fo some attention and so his friend read her tags to see where she belonged, brought her over, and rang the doorbell before leaving her on the porch. I wasn't home during any of this. That's the last anyone saw of her. I asked a few people in the neighbourhood, posted everywhere online, searched every website I could find. I posted fliers a few days after she went missing, but we never got any feedback and then someone eventually just ripped them all down. A few weeks ago, I tried putting up more, but after about three days they were just ripped down again. I'm thinking about asking the entire neighbourhood. I just don't know what to do, and I want her back so much.
I've had Charlie for a long time, and she was an outdoor cat. She wore a collar with our address and all on it and was well known throughout some of the neighbourhood. On March 15, I had left school late. As I was walking home, I noticed a car pulling into a driveway that looked like mine, stopping for a few seconds, and then driving off right past me. I got home and Charlie wasn't waiting for me like usual. I tried whistling, calling, and looking everywhere, but she never came. I thought maybe she had gone roaming and slept it off, thinking she would be back. A few hours later, I went back outside only to find her still gone. It struck us that she's now missing. My neighbour said that his friend had come over to cut his hair that day, and that Charlie had wandered over into his garage fo some attention and so his friend read her tags to see where she belonged, brought her over, and rang the doorbell before leaving her on the porch. I wasn't home during any of this. That's the last anyone saw of her. I asked a few people in the neighbourhood, posted everywhere online, searched every website I could find. I posted fliers a few days after she went missing, but we never got any feedback and then someone eventually just ripped them all down. A few weeks ago, I tried putting up more, but after about three days they were just ripped down again. I'm thinking about asking the entire neighbourhood. I just don't know what to do, and I want her back so much.
I am so sorry that you are going through this. You are dealing with some suspicious circumstances. Can you borrow a trail/surveillance camera to monitor one or some of your posters being removed? Or if you have a neighbor with a security camera, ask 2 put a sign in their yard? If those options are not available, include a warning on your posters/flyers that anybody caught tampering or removing them "will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, including any and all criminal and civil penalties"- that is probably and empty threat but may scare them off. In my opinion, though, the most helpful thing is to discover who is tampering with your posters - it will be the clue as to who knows something.
