Hallelujah! Tiger just showed up at my back door. !!

[Walleye]

Last edited Thu Jun 22, 2023, 09:12 PM - Edit history (1)

So I guess much thanks to whatever gods may be and to all of my friends here and do you who helped me get through it. I appreciate your concern a lot.

[wnylib]

1. Cats can produce such concern and anxiety in us.

[tblue37]

2. Hooray for Tiger!

[niyad]

3. yayy!!! I have been so worried! Thank you for letting us know right awzy!

[Walleye]

6. Thank you for your worry. It's tough to have to worry all by yourself

[niyad]

9. Indeed. Thank goodness for our friends!

[Walleye]

11. Yes

[niyad]

4. Hugggggggs., and lots of pets for Tiger.

[PlutosHeart]

5. I always from experience look at these

moments as both a gift and a message.

Regardless of how much we want to interpret and humanize animals the world is cruel. Maybe never letting him out should be considered. Hate to say but I have said this to a few and...

[Walleye]

8. He is an outdoor cat he was born out there and one of about 10 kittens we had trapped neutered

And released. This is in 2010. Tiger stuck around and became tame to me. He’s very shy of other people. I got my indoor cat that way too but I don’t let him out, he’s a big lazy bum.

[Siwsan]

7. Whew!!!!

Great news!!

[Walleye]

12. Yes he looks a little scruffy, maybe an encounter with another cat

Or He had to squeeze to get out of his hidey hole. Long as I know he’s all right. Can’t expect him to live forever. I just wasn’t ready to lose him yet

[getagrip_already]

10. One of my cats disappeared during a sub zero cold snap at 6 months old...

I thought he was gone for sure. Temps were well below zero for days.

He was gone 5 days and then just walked up to the house totally cool with life. He didn't seem hurt, or hungry, or thirsty.

Bastard.

[niyad]

13. I am convinced that some of them use a portal, not in the least concerned

that we are worried.

[TexasTowelie]

14. I'm happy for you.

My six-year-old cat went out one night and stayed outside for a couple of days. Since she arrived home she hasn't even want to step out on the balcony.

[Walleye]

23. They worm their way into our hearts

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Thank goodness.

[stage left]

16. I'm so glad Tiger came home.

I had one gone for a week. I thought we'd lost him. But he showed back up and looked just fine.

[Walleye]

22. It seems like it shouldn't mean so much but we can't help feeling what wefeel

[NJCher]

24. so true

It can totally upend your world if they pull something like this.

You should give him the business over this; it might mean something. I've changed my cat's behavior a couple times. For whatever reason, Oliver is very obedient. If I tell him something is not ok, he listens and he changes his behavior.

Once I caught him going off the property and I chased him back home. I was yelling at him all the way down the road. Since then he has stayed on the property. My house is on a private road, so he has a large area he can roam around with no cars. When I got him home I scolded him and he knew I was upset.

Then he started bringing his "kills" into the house. I took away his door for 24 hours and he figured out he can't bring moles and the like into the house.

So hey, try it. It's probably too late now, though. You have to do it close to the time of their "error." I am sure you were so relieved to see him that you couldn't even think of teaching any lessons.

[Walleye]

25. Tiger is still almost feral,but my indoor cat I can yell at him and make him stop sometimes

[Karadeniz]

17. Yay!!!

[speak easy]

18. ?

[Walleye]

20. That's funny because auto correct put his name in there when I tried to type in the cats name

[calimary]

19. Oh good!

Thanks for the update!

Our cats are indoor cats whether they like it or not. But we have a coyote or two in the neighborhood and they can just stick to our closed-in deck. They don’t seem to mind it, and I don’t have to worry about it.

[Walleye]

21. The first time tiger disappeared for a few weeks years ago I was sure a coyote had gotten him

Turned out he had been trapped somewhere nearby, I never figured out where

[raccoon]

26. Glad he came back! How long was he missing?

[Walleye]

27. Only two days but he shows up so regularly for supper I was worried

And he’s getting on in years