Cat now living elsewhere

I think cats are very much independent and do just as they please!!! We have 2 half Bengal cats, now nearly a year old which we adopted at 7 months when their previous owner found them too much to handle! They are brother and sister, now both spayed and very different characters. The male is very loving and gentle while his sister is much more fiesty and def in possession of cattitude! Now they go out, they both need to keep coming back every half an hour or so just to check we’re still here I think and to see if there is anything else to eat - they are well fed honestly. I’m sure that if any of the neighbours fed them they would love them too and possibly move out!

A dog would never do this. They are faithful even in death, as in the case of Grey Friars Bobby.

The cat should be spayed. Perhaps her new owners will realise this.

Cats are free spirits, so you never really own them, they just decide to stay.
We used to get a 'stealth' cat that sneaked in through the cat flap, and we only heard him when his collar hit the food bowl.
As one of our cats was dopey, we couldn't change to a magnetic flap because he was afraid of the click it made.
Eventually we discovered that 'Squeak' was in fact a rather grand Gabriel who used to be a stray and was used to sneaking in to steal food. Young mum was distraught as he was much loved and well looked after. We never solved it, they moved away, and that was that!

That’s one thing with dogs, they stick with you through thick and thin.

Not my cat (and not my house either) but funny.

A cat turned up at my DD's back door. My DD did not encourage her, but the DGC did! She looked hungry so they gave her some kitchen scraps. She became a regular visitor, and has now moved in.
DD did find out who the cat belongs to, and spoke to the owner who was disappointed that her cat had moved out and was living elsewhere, but she also understood that things had changed in her household, her last child has left for university. Perhaps the cat needed the company od children.
DD told the cat's owner that she is welcome to visit her whenever she would like to.

I am a cat person and like the way that they decide where to live however it is sad when they choose somewhere else.

She’s definitely not pregnant as my daughter managed to get her spayed after the kittens were born ! It just seems a bit sad she’s so overweight but there’s nothing we can do about it.

The oldest cat I have had wandered from the next road where he belonged and its owner put him on the " missing " list online. On seeing the picture I rang the owner and told her that the cat kept coming here. Although the woman told me not to feed it she made no attempt to collect him and take him and there it ended about 6/7 years ago and he's still here.

One thing though, the cat had a red collar ( no name ) which I'd left on him because he wasn't mine but a few months later he'd had the collar removed when he came in after his usual walkabout. I believed there were a few cats living at the house so maybe he felt pushed out.

We had a pure white cat years ago “snowy toes” who after we moved from Devon to Sussex moved out and across the road to an elderly lady. He grew enormous living off the fat of the land, no wonder he moved out as clearly cat food wasn’t good enough in our house.

But the lady adored him and we were reconciled to his rejection of us.

Could she be pregnant again?

We had two separate cats who left home, one after I’d given birth to my first child. This cat had been extremely close to me throughout my pregnancy. She returned occasionally & briefly, and we tried to persuade her to stay, but she didn’t seem able to accept a baby in the house. We knew where she had moved to and that she was well cared for.

The second cat, years later, moved out when we got a dog. Dog and cat had a calm relationship, but our cat wouldn’t stay. We tried and tried to find him after he left but eventually gave up.

Two years later he reappeared. Walked into the house, checked everything, was really affectionate, then left for good. We still had the dog.

We’ve had other cats and dogs and children over the years, and all have lived in harmony.

I had a cat that did this. I had 4 cats and he obviously didn't want to share, even though he was the youngest, newest addition. He was about 4 when he moved. Once a month or so he would come back to visit, but never wanted to stay. If I shut him in he would get very agitated and would escape at the first opportunity. Once time he came back, he had been to the vets and had a surgical wound that was shaved and stitched. So he had a nice new family.

Had you thought that the cat may be pregnant again?

My vets cat did this because she hated her brother. I was in the waiting room one day and remarked what a lovely cat the next patient had. It was the vets cat who had decided to live with her.