another update.

No, he hasn't been found....but I finally called the women involved. (They seemed to have disappeared from this world!) The one from the south was visiting the one nearby, so I had them together at one time! They were so rude and blaming it all on me! They said that my way of searching was the reason why nobody would ever call me, even if somone did see him! The nerve! They did/do nothing (and go on living happily ever after!) and I'm searching high and low!


The one nearby, my "friend"/ex-neighbor, was full of lame excuses why she hadn't been in touch with me....really....if someone, you've known for almost 20 years (and have lived next door to, for almost 10 years) can act like this...so unsensitive and so callous!

And all at the expense of a poor innocent animal! They kept lying about what they had said and done...and about the time-line.....2 women of (about) 50 and 70 years old! Very adult-like....NOT! I never ever want anything to do with them, again!


In the meantime, I keep calling all the offical pet-missing-places, but nothing! Because of all their lies, I'm not convinced anymore that the sweety is indeed where they say he is, so tomorrow, I'm going to widen the search and inform everyone, I can think of, between here and Bavel! Just in case, they dumped him somewhere else!


My hopes of ever finding him, are getting less and less, but I won't give up....miracles do happen, don't they?

short update on my missing cat.

Last Sunday, I went to Bavel again. A man had called me and he told me, he had seen my cat, twice! It was definitely him! So, I made an appointment with this man to meet him on Sunday at lunch time and I drove the 150 kms/95 miles south again. Only to find this man NOT at home! I just couldn't believe it! How can one person do this to another person? To give me so much hope! And to be so callous!


While I was there, I searched more, of course and also asked more people about him, but nothing! I just can't believe how a cat can just disappear into thin air like this! I really can't!


This morning, I called all the official places again....where I had registered him missing...but nothing!


I'm still literally ill because of all this and I just don't know what to do if he will never be found.... That poor, poor animal!


I made a special hyves-site about him; it's in Dutch, but please, spread it around if you know someone in the Netherlands! Thanks!


http://roodje-vermist.hyves.nl/

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More pictures of my stray.

Some more pictures of my stray, so he will hopefully be recognised (and found!) soon:

update on my missing stray.

No, he hasn't been found....but a lot has happened since I last wrote. I spent 2 whole days searching in the village, where he went missing. The first time, the day after I heard; the second time, last Sunday. I travelled south, the day before, and stayed overnight at a friend's house, so I didn't have to drive all that way (150 kms/95 miles one way) on 1 day again.


I put up 150 flyers in total (in the whole village, plus part of the city of Breda where someone thought, she saw him); on the streets, at the local vet's, supermarket and library and also delivered flyers house-to-house in the near vicinity of where he went missing. Plus I made sure, a message (with picture) was put on local TV, local internet-sites and today, an ad will appear in 2 local newspapers.


So far, I've driven about 750 kms/470 miles and spent almost 200 euros/275 US Dollars on flyers and ads, but still nothing!


And I haven't heard anything anymore from my "friend"/former neighbor, who was the middle person in this situation. She was the one, who convinced me, her friend was the perfect woman to take in my stray and give him a good home. I've known this "friend"/neighbbor for over 15 years and she knows, what a terrible year, I've had (with illnesses and operations and next-door-neighbor-trouble, etc), so I blame her for talking me into this, eventhough she knew, my judgment is bad at present, because of all this trouble! How wrong can you be about a person... And now, she is a huge coward, for not even calling to ask how I'm coping and for letting me handle this, all by myself and not even offering to help!


Well, I've had an emotional breakdown! Even the doctor can't help! Since I heard this awful news, I haven't been able to sleep or eat and all I do is cry, throw up and have diarrhoea; out of fear and grief over this poor animal. I don't know what to do anymore...the guilt is killing me...I'm SO angry at myself....for giving him away! I will blame myself for the rest of my life....that's for sure! That poor sweety trusted me....trusted me to do the right thing for him....but I betrayed that trust....and now, I will have to live with that for ever....


I read this somewhere lately: "There comes a time in your life when you realise who matters, who never did and who always will. So, don't worry about the people from your past, because there is a reason they didn't make it into your future. I have certainly learned this the hard way."


Well...so have I....I'm absolutely devastated about this missing sweety....and I'm sick and tired of the lack of concern of these 2 women involved! I keep wondering if he has something to eat...a place to be dry and warm enough....if cat-haters are chasing him out of their precious gardens....or if he is slowly suffering to death.... The not knowing is so very, very difficult...I'd rather have found him dead; then, I'd at least have known where he is now...

My stray escaped and is missing!!

My stray-cat already escaped his new home! On the very first day, he was there! The woman left the outside door ajar!!! Really! I couldn't believe it, when I heard it! She promised me a dozen times, she would be extra carefull with the doors and windows!


So, now, the poor cat is lost in a village that is completely foreign to him; 150 km/95 miles away from here! What must he think? That everyone deserted him, most of all me, because I gave him away, when he trusted me! I did it out of good intention, but still...


I registered him with all the official missing-pet-authorities and made a flyer to pass around, but I'm not holding my breath. I have a feeling, I will never see him again...


I gave 3,5 months to this sweet cat to resocialise him, because he was very untrustful towards people....and all this was thrown away in 1 day... I'm so very, very sad!! I'm physically ill because of it...


And I'm so tired of the well-spread carelessness in general, these days. But especially when poor animals are concerned! They depend on us! If you are not prepared to make an effort, then please do NOT take an animal into your home!