Our orange and black spayed cat, Pumpkin, never came home yesterday.

She went outside when my hubby headed off to work in the morning before the sun came up…and I haven’t seen her since.

And of course I fear the worst…this morning before dawn I went outside to call her (as I have called her many times over the past day)…and I heard coyotes. One seemed pretty close!

Was the coyote nearby when she went roaming yesterday?

It doesn’t help that Pumpkin got her collar (with its ID tag) off some time ago and hasn’t worn it since. But she does have an ID tattooed in her ear, so if someone finds her and takes her to the SPCA… (But Pumpkin shies away from people…)

This year a fellow told me his cat was missing for a week before it made it home (scrawny, but alive)!

We won’t give up hope yet.

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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