Our Lost Dog Project

A similar story - but regrettably no happy ending.
I introduced our two beautiful Burmese boys on the forum earlier (Fitzroy and Fergus) both born in October 2020.They have been a complete and utter joy.
Sadly Fergus (brown boy) didn’t come home on Jan 31st( first time he had ever been out after dusk). We searched EVERYWHERE and put leaflets and posters wherever we could think of. Our lovely neighbours were also involved in the search.
Anyway to cut a long story short there was a poster on a telegraph pole near to us with a photo of our Fergus which stated that he had been “visiting my bird table once a week for a month or two”. Don’t we all have cats visiting our gardens now and again?
The poster continued that “if no one has claimed him in two weeks, I shall put him on a Facebook lost and found website”. The date on the poster was 16 January - ie two weeks before our lovely boy disappeared. We immediately contacted the woman who had put the poster up and she said that Fergus had been killed on the road about fifty yards from her house. A “nice gentleman” knocked on her door said he would deal with it and took it away. No one has seen a body - not even her! I can’t help thinking that this is really fishy. Her neighbour told me that she doesn’t like cats visiting her garden. How did she know it was Fergus if some stranger knocked at her door to say that a cat had been killed? When she told us that he had been killed why did she ask me if he was microchipped AND how much a Burmese kitten would cost. Had so many sleepless nights over all this. Poor Fitzroy is missing Fergus like mad too.

That's heartbreaking and does sound very dodgy indeed. Can you have an alert put on his chip in case someone tries to change the details or remove it?