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What to do if your cat has gone missing  Remember to search at home. Next visit your immediate neighbours and ask them to look in their homes and garages, sheds and outbuildings. While you are searching your local area, stop regularly and listen — give your cat a chance to answer your call. Stay in one area long enough for your pet to reach you if he is close by. Make up notices to go in local shop windows/noticeboards, ideally with a photograph of your cat and a description. Place these also on lampposts and consider photocopying leaflets to drop through letterboxes in the neighbourhood. Many cats ‘go missing’ simply because they are befriended by a neighbour. If your cat is microchipped or already registered with a pet-finding service, alert them that your cat is missing (Don’t forget to contact them and let them know when you have found him). Contact veterinary surgeries in your area as if injured, your cat may have been taken there (they may also take your ‘Missing’ notice for their noticeboard). Call or visit local animal rescue charities too in case your cat has been mistaken for a stray and been handed in.  Check local public areas parks etc. Check with your local council’s refuse department in case your cat was knocked down on the road and has been collected. Register your cat with local and national lost and found agencies. Many operate on the internet. Take out an advert in a local paper and approach your local radio station to see if they will put out an appeal. Tell as many people locally as you can, including: your postman/woman; milkman; neighbourhood children; elderly neighbours; dog walkers— all likely to be out and about and noticing cats at different times. Don’t despair! Many cats turn up after many months, even years, after being missing! According to the Missing Pet Bureau, 3,200 cats go missing every week. Buy him a safe collar with a buckle which will snap open if it gets caught and releases him rather than traps or injures him, and an identity tag. Keep him in at night Consider enclosing your garden — keeping your cat safe, while allowing him plenty of space and lots to keep him interested. If you haven’t done already, get your cat neutered. Entire toms roam great distances in a bid to find females, and a calling female will wander off in a distracted state.  Cats often hide in barns and farm buildings. Losing your cat and never knowing what has happened to him or her can be as traumatic to the owner as a death. The Pet Bereavement Helpline has been set up to help pet owners cope with their feelings of loss. The Pet Bereavement Support Service is a confidential telephone helpline that offers support through a national network of trained volunteer Telephone Befrienders. The Helpline is run by two charities, The Blue Cross and The Society for Companion Animal Studies. The Helpline is open daily 8.30am to 8.30pm with an answerphone outside these hours. To make contact call the freephone number: 0800 096 6606 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it A co-ordinator will give you details of the nearest Telephone Befriender.
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