That wasn’t a proper title but I don’t know what to type anyway. I’m very much at a loss currently. I can’t get through the day without writing this out.
Our beloved cat lose her way home and has been missing for 2 full days now. Technically it’s not my cat, it’s my sister’s whom I live together with for the past 7 years, so I’ve been living and taking care of this cat for 7 years. My sister adopted her as a kitten. She’s about 7years + of age. Quite old for a Persian cat, since they’re all housecats anyway. They’re domesticated and can’t live in the wild…I’m just overwhelmed by the fact that it may not come back ever.
It was just a normal day of me going out to work, had a fun day with a small Eid celebration at work. I brought my own cooking as well, the day started better than any other day in this pandemic. Around 10am my sister told me the cat is missing. Sometimes she went out the door but still confined herself in our garage. But these days we notice she was impatient for a sunny day out and would barge out the door even at the slightest chance. She even tried to slip through the grill.
One time she was lost for a few hours and we found her on our neighbor’s roof. She would respond to her name and came home everytime. But that was 3 years ago.
This time she might have successfully slipped through the grill after I go to work and walk outside the gates (which rarely happened) few times that she did that we luckily spotted her 2 houses away. I know that this doesn’t seem right…she never went too far that she was unable to find her way back. Plus it rains 3 TIMES that day! I cried thinking of how would she find a place away from the rain. How would she eat? Sleep? She would took a dump in the cat litter multiple times a day. How did she even manage to dump on actual soil?? She NEVER lived outside her whole life! Her paws are literally PINK!! Persians aren’t livable outdoors and by themselves because they’re high maintenance cats, and needed attention and care unlike some breeds that are independent. Missing cats would came back in like 5-7days max. Their lifespan would cut back greatly in a few years if they live in the wild. Now consider an indoor Persian…
Ohh I’m very worried…I can’t comfort myself for the past 2 days. We went out looking but just couldn’t find her. I regretted not asking the neighbors earlier but I don’t know, it might not have helped..? The cat is reclusive, anxious in nature and in an uncomfortable, different environment. I only ever saw her just lounging in peace TWICE at a neighbor’s house. That, and when we called her she would came back running =(
I just wanna know if she’s still alive out there, in someone else’s home or in a ditch somewhere. Her eyesight is poor due to an infection 2 years ago. My heart tells me she’s alive but considering everything it’d be a slim chance for her to survive on her own. She must’ve been picked up by someone. If she’s gone I just wanna know where =(( I just wanna know if she knew that we loved her all the way and misses her so much, and she was affectionate to us as well =((
It might be shocking to a lot of people in my opinion especially those with kids and children of their own….to understand why would a person be so so upset about losing a cat…but the love and companionship we feel for our cat is real, just like a family member. We have her for 7 years, watching her grow up, nursed her to health a few times when she had a burn accident, her non stop eye infection, and last year September she wasn’t eating and would get weak. The vet explained that she’s approaching old age and inevitably her teeth and gums deteriorated to the point that it’d inflamed and was painful for her to eat. I ordered a box of special mashed wet food and we took turns giving her food by hand, changing to 3-4 brands of pet food to match her deranged appetite. I remember driving back home from the vet, crying my eyes out, just realizing that she’s old and one day I’ll lose her. I kept thinking how would I cope with not having this little fluffy kitty that I love so much. To our surprise, she grew fat again, happy and playful again. It took her around 6 months! She was just recently looked healthy and fully recovered from that illness. We were comforted by the thought that we prolonged her life and we would probably have like 2-3years left with her.
Having a longtime pet is like always living with the disadvantage that they would go first before we do. As pet parents we always had to see them grow old because of their life span. I knew and accepted that especially after last September. I also knew generally cats would prefer to die alone hence why they usually ‘ran’ away from their human parents at the end of their lives for the sake of being alone. There are stories of people who were able to be with their pets at their final moments where they slowly die in silence. I don’t think my cat went out there to die. She was energetic and recently very curious about the outside world and could simply lost her way home, plus the rain fell and washed away any familiar scent. I don’t know. I like to think about it that way.
Now that she has gone missing, I would rather watch her grow old…even if it was painful for me to see her not as active, as playful and mischievous like when she was a tiny troublemaker running around and not knowing how to poo properly in the litter 😇 and die in my arms than somewhere out there alone….not having the comfort of her parents and the warmth of our home…the usual spots she used to hibernate the whole day…the stool she would stood on waiting and greeting me after I’m back from work…and the grooming combs we had exclusively to groom her stubborn Persian floof! 😇
Honest to God I just wanna know where she is, if someone is caring for her I thank you but I hope you’ll make the effort to contact the neighborhood’s management or something. If she’s gone I’d like to bury her in our yard in 7 years of loving memories we had.
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