Reply #30: Don't despair. My stepdaughter's cat disappeared for three weeks.

[Cleita]

Someone called us then and told us there was a cat lurking around their house that had a tag with our number on it. My husband and I went to the people's house that was three miles down the road and sure enough it was our missing cat. He had a scab and fur missing on his flank. We took him to the vet and the vet said it was a bad burn that was healing. We think he got under the hood of someone's car in the neighborhood, was burned by something in the engine and was able to jump out at a stop sign which was close to where we found him. It was just too far away for him to find his way home. Fortunately, the people who found him had been feeding him up until then when they were able to get close enough to him to read his tag.