Author: Sally Perry
More Cats Return Home After VB Appeals
10:14 am Thursday, 27th October, 2011, Isle of Wight
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Two more cats have been found since VB ran appeals this week.
The beautiful Beau has returned home, “hungry and miaowing loudly but otherwise fine!” says his owner Sue.
Another missing cat, Charlie (pictured) from Gurnard was also spotted since we put out an appeal on VB.
His owner Holly says, “Great news! Charles has returned.
“A lovely lady from Gurnard called us this afternoon letting us know that Charlie was in her garden so we swooped up there and managed to find him after a few unsuccessful attempts over the last few days.
“Looks like he had got himself lost so was rather shaken up when we got him, but is now purring and dribbling everywhere and currently fast asleep on the sofa, exhausted after his eight day adventure.
“Thank you so much for your support and putting the article up for us.”
It’s pleasing to read these tales of missing cats being found – pets are like family members and it’s such worry when they go missing as our own cat did for three days last week.
I ended up walking for 6 hours hand delivering 800 leaflets asking people to check their garages and sheds and offering £100 reward.
Consequently, no sooner had I got home after delivering the last leaflet and flopped into a chair, the cat came through our cat flap at about 900 mph.
Someone must have opened their shed door and he went peeeyowwwww out the door like a rocket and was chased back through the streets by a mob.
He had two bowls of food, collapsed in a heap and was asleep in seconds.
However, we had a stream of callers that afternoon – one woman rang to say she had trapped a ginger cat in her house and a bunch of nippers turned up at the door with another one miaowing frantically in a cardboard box.
We had to keep Puss in for three days to avoid having to deliver another 800 leaflets telling people we had come home and the £100 reward had been cancelled – otherwise we would have continued to have people knocking on our door with our cat in a box demanding 100 quid…although I guess I could have shaved his rump and written the message on him in ball pen…
Hopefully it’s not going to happen again!
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Far too many cats – Some people are not buying the cat food, so they are eating all the birds.
I love animals, however when a dozen or so moggies are leaving their deposits on my lawn and in my borders…Enough said.
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I am surprised that cats are leaving deposits in full view on your lawn and borders. Their instinct is to bury it and they take great care in doing so: they don’t want prey to smell it. Are you sure it is cats and not foxes who do leave deposits in full view?
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By the way, the chief officer of the RSPB, Dr Philip Avery, says that cats are not a problem with respect to predation on birds. The numbers they take are mostly sick birds who can’t fly too well. The numbers taken by cats are insignificant to the breeding population
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Well, I wish the feral cats would read this. I watch them regularly foul my lawn as well as go for birds in my garden, from which I’ve seen them also take frogs and slow worms. I cannot dig a single square in my garden without having that patch visited overnight by cats that mess up my handiwork.
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