We've located the cat!!!!
He went back to the old house. It's 2.5 miles (I checked on google maps). Lots of people suggested that might have happened but we all scoffed and said he was too stupid. We're hanging our heads in shame now.
Thing is, my husband knew, he saw him days ago. He's been on the phone countless times since, trying to arrange to see my daughter. She won an art contest and had her prize presented to her yesterday so we both went. She went back to his after and he mentioned, in his usual roundabout way, that he'd seen the cat several times over the past week.
He didn't let him in the house because he had no food for him. He could still have given him milk. But what amazes me is that he never bothered mentioning it. I've had to hold each of the kids in my arms as, one by one, they realised he was missing and were convulsed with misery. I walked round the streets at dusk with my son calling the cat's name on Sunday night and watching him suffer as we heard cats that turned out not to be ours.
The kids aren't surprised, but I am. Now we do feel a bit guilty though, cos we'll have to bring him back here and he's gone to such lengths to get back where he wants to be. But it's wonderful to see the kids happy again.
I took a half day this morning to get broadband put on, then there was a power cut just before the bloke arrived so he couldn't do it. He went off to another job then returned ten minutes after I had to leave. The power came back on about 3 minutes after he drove off as well. Very frustrating. But at least the cat's OK!
2008-05-20 @ 17:58