Our cat came home after being gone 54 days.

[Smilie]

Very cool! Amazing how they can do that! Glad he came home. Great stories from everyone as well!

[DebTX]

I'm so glad Murray came home - he's such a beautiful cat!

I know if one of my "two girls" disappeared, I'd be heartsick (I'm convinced I gave birth to them both )

[smilingcat]

How wonderful Murray came back. Big hug to him.

I know the feeling well. The tom cat who adopted me on a cold rainy day in winter all sick was an indoor/outdoor cat. I tried to make him an indoor cat but it just wasn't going to be.

One summer, with windows open, he managed to rip apart the screen and disappeared. We had just moved. It was a new house for him and us. I wasn't about to give up on Mr. Cat, so I put out my dirty cloth on the porch for him to smell in the morning and when I got home from work, I was out on the patio reading or tending to my yard. And slept every night out there. He came wondering back about 5 in the morning on about the 4th day. Yes he tore me up really good but I managed to throw him back in the house before he broke loose from me. As soon as he was inside, it was like nothing happened.

When he got older, he became an indoor cat. I think he made it to about 15 or 16 years of age. It's been about 10 years since. I still miss my big boy Mr. Cat.

And more recently, three of my cats "ran away" by pushing out the screen in my bedroom window. I found all three huddled together with one of our dogs. They were gone for only about four hours. Outside world was bit too scary for them.

[Lucky, Fabulous]

He looks fat and happy! I imagine he just calmly decided one day that surviving on his own was just too much work.

[Norse]

So glad you got Murray back! And Tulip, I had almost the exact same thing happen with my beloved black cat, Boo-Boo.

When he was about 3, he did not come one night. Posters, looking, constantly checking with are vets, humane society... About one month later, the Humane Soc. called and said they had a cat matching all his descriptions - run over by a car. Because this cat was such a mess, they didn't want us to open the box and look, so we didn't. We cried and had a funeral. Two months after his disappearance, he showed up on the front door step at 5:00 am meowing up a storm. I don't know how he survived, he was always so skittish, but he looked healthy.

He spent the rest of his days as an indoor cat and we just recently lost him at the age of 19. He was a fantastic cat, a cuddler, a mama's boy all the way. They are amazing creatures.

Welcome home Murray!

[surgtech1956]

Thanks for all the stories. Its great so see so many 'pet' people, especially cat people. Murray is an indoor cat. Forgot one thing, my DGF was coming home one day from an appointment about and saw this dead tiger cat on the side of the road(about 4 miles away), she went to a store and got some gloves, picked the cat up, brought it home, thinking it was Murray, wasn't him, cried the whole time she was having his 'funeral'. Don't know who he is, but he has a nice grave.

[Biciclista]

As much as I am enjoying these stories, Microchipping would solve some of the problem. (like the entire male being mistaken for someone's neutered pet!!!!)

keep them coming, I have been delighted to read them all.
And all the dear not our pets getting burials.