Still no news on Lilly and hope is becoming very thin on the ground. This next bit will probably upset and sicken you.
I mentioned earlier on that another cat had gone missing on the same day, a few doors away from me (we are almost attached via a garden, the back corner of mine almost meets her back corner so we are pretty close.) The corner where the gardens join is quite overgrown and inaccessible from my garden but the lady let me go through her garden to see whether there was anything in there. I did this on Thursday but found nothing. I kept thinking about it and was drawn back yesterday and looked under the sheds in the area at the same time when it was darker and quieter but found nothing at all. Before coming home I knocked on her neighbours door to see if I could have a quick look round his garden which is quite overgrown. He was in but wouldn't answer the door and I couldn't go into his garden as he would have seen me (and probably have me arrested!)
Today I have a phone call from Joan saying she had found her cat's body...........pushed through the hedge from the side that wouldn't answer the door.
There are no visible signs of injury so she is taking him for a post mortem on Monday morning at her vets. He wasn't there on any of the occassions I went round and wasn't there this morning. She has been in all day and no-one came past her windows. She struggled to get him out of the hedge so he was clearly put there from the other side.
I just can't understand how anyone could do that. If he found the cat in his garden and didn't want to tell her in case she though he had killed it (which is possible) then why not wait until night and put it in her front garden. I suppose we should be thankful he didn't just throw him into a bin. RIP Twinks.
The thing is now I am more than convinced I willl find Lilly in the same way - except he probably doesn't know where she has come from so she may end up in a bin. He's had the flyer but may be worried about ringing about her. If she is there at all.
Tomorrow my sister is going to knock on his door and see if we can ransack his garden (just in case he recognises me and thinks I am linked to his neighbour). If he is in and doesn't answer then I'm not sure what I will do. The other option is waiting for him to go to work on Monday and going in without permission - which I will do but would rather have his permission and do it a day earlier. If she has died then a day won't make any difference but if some miracle she is still alive then the timing will be critical.
I'm not for one minute suggesting he may have poisoned Twinks deliberately but to push him through a hedge is awful. I'm in bits again through this - I am so angry that she has Twinks back and I still haven't found Lilly (and I hate myself for feeling that way) but I'm relieved that I can still have some hope.
Karen
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