Daffy, I'm so sorry - but please take heart that Rover was missing for seven months before he was identified back at the vets. Keep up the publicity, get something put in your local paper, posters in the supermarkets and pubs - I flyered lamposts and bus stops and all sorts. I got a lot of IDs which weren't him, but I couldn't believe how supportive people were. Make sure the dustmen know as well as Enviromental Health, and also distant vets - Rover was found four miles from home, it was purely by luck that the finder took him to our vets. Thinking of you - don't give up hope, keep up his cat insurance (btw we had lost cat cover in Rover's policy, so they paid us toward the cost of advertising, would you have the same?)