It's a year tomorrow...

[boxtops]

...since our Rover went missing. I still go cold when I think about what an awful time it was.

Rover is currently fast (very fast) asleep on the sofa, he won't remember.

[gness]

How long was Rover missing for Box? My cat was shut in a garage for three days. Horrible time.

[jno]

how about naming the next one "Homeboy"?

[Euphemia]

I remember how worried you were and how concerned your AB friends were. I am sure Rover now appreciates his home comforts.

[boxtops]

gness, he was away for seven months - he was only returned to us because he went to a kind house four miles away, when the weather started turning cold.

euphemia - he certainly does (but I wish he didn't wee indoors on occasion....)

jno :-)

[Barmaid]

I remember some of it Boxy. My heart went out to you because i went through a similar thing in 2009 when ASBO went missing. He was gone for weeks. Having searched for him for weeks and having been informed by the council that a cat which met his description was found dead on the road about 2 miles away, I eventually I accepted I had lost him.

I sobbed my heart out the night he came home. Tired, skinny, flea ridden but so so pleased to see his mum. He is now the cuddliest cat ever and rarely leaves home.

[gness]

Seven months Box! You must have been in a state not knowing for that long. So glad he came home to you.

[boxtops]

Gness, we were. We spent all last summer scouring the town, peering under hedges, following up lost causes all over the place (looking at cats which looked nothing like him...) - it was his microchip which identified him in the end, since while he was away he'd gone from brown tabby to grey, so CPL said they wouldn't have connected the lost report with the actual cat. God bless the microchip, say I!

[lankeela]

On This Morning tomorrow they have a feature on missing pets. We are currently following the story of a 20 year old dog that is missing in the Kirkby area of Liverpool. Loads of people are out looking and hundreds more are following the story on DogLost and facebook.

[gness]

When we ran a cattery a lady brought her cat to us ....loose in the car! She opened the door and the cat was off. She lived twelve miles away so it was unlikely it would find it`s way home. She went off on holiday and we searched and searched with no luck. A couple of weeks later I phoned a friend for a chat. She lives about three miles from me. She told me about a cat that had turned up on her doorstep that evening so I drove round and there was the missing cat!

[boxtops]

wonderful, gness - Rover went missing from the vet four miles away (he didn't escape from the vet, but from his basket outside the surgery). We hoped he'd work his way home but he actually stayed within a mile radius of where he went missing. Plenty of fields, plenty of mice!

[pussnboots]

I remember that boxtops, and often thought at the time about poor Rover, so glad when he turned up. In 1996 I moved house, and after only about 3 days Boots went AWOL, he was missing for 5 days and I thought he would not survive because to get back to the old house meant crossing dual carriageways and a busy town. Anyhoo I was stood at the kitchen window and this poor, dirty, scruffy cat was sat on my fence, it was him, he never left my side after that.

[chaptazbru]

You're so lucky, you all found your pets again. My lovely cat Sophie went missing in 2006 and despite trying desperately to find her, I never did and still hope she'll come home again. It's terrible wondering what happened to her.

[tonyav]

Our black and white cat Tommy aged 12 went missing approx 12 weeks ago, no sign of him since. :-(

[chaptazbru]

Where on earth do they get to ??

[tonyav]

Gawd only knows.

[boxtops]

I had another cat go missing many years ago when I lived in Brighton, she just upped and went - I never heard any sign of her.

Tony - sorry to hear that - have you advertised, done all the usual about telling the CPL, vets, etc? Was he microchipped?