Hello,
On the 16th of July 2008, during the day, Gizmo went AWOL. Since then we have searched the house & under it, the garden, neighbours gardens & under the houses of 3 of the closest neighbours, the neighbourhood, the town, put up hundreds of posters, conducted dawn patrols from 3am to 6am, put up posters in the next 2 towns and whilst normally I’m a rational professional engineer, under the circumstances, followed a recommendation to employ a reputed local Cat Dowser. Suspicious that he was part of a seedy plot we employed him to see what he had to say. I employed a 2nd Dowser because the 1st told me she was dead. We put up posters and knocked door to door in areas identified by the 2nd. As a result I cannot provide any positive evidence with respect to the effectiveness of Cat dowsers.
Today 06/09/08 is day 3 of week 8. So far we have found nothing except 5 other missing cats, all chipped, tattooed + sterilised, all went missing within a short time frame. Around the 12th of August we put up some posters identifying all the cats together. Since then no other cats have gone missing. Whilst I have my suspicions and anger, I have no concrete evidence to make any credible accusations.
Its coming up to 2 months now and Gizmo has not been found. Tragically I do not think she will ever show up because she is a vagarious cat who loves human attention and everyone in the town now knows her. If she was here & alive then I am confident she would be reported by now. Another extremely likely possibility is that she jumped into some ones car and hitched a lift to another town miles away, though again I am sure she would have befriended someone by now.
I fully appreciate that it would be impossible to ever replace Gizmo. However, my wife and I really really really miss her. Life feels like a pointless existence and the house is grey, cold and soulless without her. We are therefore thinking about adopting 2 cats in order to replace the daily relationship we had with Gizmo but we are unsure as she may hopefully pop up out of the blue in the future. We want to do the best for all the cats. How long then do you think is sensible to wait for her?
Thank you in advance for your time and advice
Andy & Caroline Turner