05/28/2022
MISSING since 5/7 PM or 5/8 AM from CLAYTON, NORTH CAROLINA. Semi-feral barn cats, microchipped, spayed and neutered, and left ear tipped.
I've posted on several local FB groups, Nextdoor app, and the Ring app as well as local shelter websites. I figured I might as well post here too. Two out of three of our barn cats went missing at the same time. Rowdy, our all black cat is still with us and fine except for missing them very much. I've handed out flyers, put up signs, talked to as many neighbors as possible (our farm is 40 acres and beside a neighborhood so we have A LOT of neighbors!). I've talked to pet search and rescue people, checked local shelters. Had a handful of sightings that ended up being look-a-like cats and not them. After all of this, I don't have a single sighting or lead as to what happened to them. We've searched the farm's buildings, trees... Everywhere we could think of for weeks, both during the day and at night. We've asked neighbors to listen and check their sheds and garages. Nothing. We do have foxes and sometimes coyotes in the area. I don't want to give up on them, but I'm completely heartbroken and just don't know what else to do.
Poor Rowdy is so clingy since they left which in a way I'm grateful for because hopefully it means he won't go far from our house. I may not be cut out for having outdoor cats... I was in the process of getting them more comfortable with being indoors, but being feral, they legitimately panic if you shut the door behind them when they're inside. I did everything I could to make this farm safe and peaceful for them. My heart just breaks for them 💔.
