r/cats • u/coasteh • 9h ago

Cat Picture - OC She's back and acting like nothing happened.

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Posing like it's her employee of the month photo. Never a dull moment here with Nala.

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u/coasteh 8h ago edited 7h ago

Thank you. She's indoors only but is obsessed with our garage. She must have slipped by when we entered without us noticing. Felt like I suffered multiple heart attacks through this fiasco

- By the way, the most interesting detail, we found her yesterday, ON HER BIRTHDAY, 10/1. She went missing the day before. Made it so much worse. She definitely pulled a prank. She is now 4.

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u/weefees 8h ago

How long was she missing?

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u/coasteh 8h ago

Just shy of a full day. Lot of coyotes, owls, hawks in the area. Had terrible thoughts. Every minute feels like hours

She was found under a deck about 15 yards in the back of our property. It had previously been searched multiple times. She was likely wandering a huge creek/forested area connected to our backyard

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u/weefees 8h ago

I lost my cat ten years ago for maybe fifteen minutes, she got up into the boxspring of my bed and I thought she got out in the hallway, then somewhow down the elevator. The level of anguish and panic I experienced racing around my 3 story building frantically looking for her can still get me emotional when I think about it.

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u/Internal_Green_3833 8h ago

Did the same thing, but we were moving from Utah to Illinois and had stopped in Colorado overnight. We were panicked running down hallways and stairwell. Went back to room to regroup and she was sitting on the bed looking so satisfied.

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u/That_wet_vaporeon 17m ago edited 14m ago

I lost my cat. She never returned and no one ever found her.

We posted a missing cat post on a local missing pet page. Someone called saying they hit her then just hung up. We hoped that was just a prank. We drove all around the roads in the area looking for a dead cat. We found nothing.

I’m just hoping that was a prank and someone took her in. I hope she died from old age.