When pets run away

That is awful. A few years ago, we took in a little tiger striped kitten, she had gotten into the tire well of one of my wife's co-workers car, and apparently made it 12 miles on the interstate. So we took her in, got her cleaned up, tested, vaccines, etc... She never really "tamed" down. She was sweet, very good with the other cats, and never mean or actually scared, but she was wary of us. After a few years we could pet her here and there, but just generally feral. She got out one day. We could never get her back in. We saw her around for about 6 months, at night. There are a few feral cats in our neighborhood, and the males seemed to go after her. Then we just stopped seeing her. Poor thing We tried quite a bit to try to get her back in, lure her with food, she would sit across the street from me for an hour, never walk over, and walk off if I got up. Like she almost wanted to, but not really. She was sweet, just not domesticated. She would climb up in the Christmas tree both years she was here, she liked the real tree the second year much, much more...






Okay, now I'm sad Very sad subject....