Willie was found today!!!

That's strange that he was found days after you thought you found him on Petfinder! I'm so happy for you!

One of my cats got out once (for only three days), and she was sick when she came home, too. It took her a while to be back to her normal self. I'm sure Willie will get better... just give him time and lots of love and good vet care. Poor baby!

I'm so happy that you found Willie and that he is home.

I'm sorry that he's sick, hopefully it's nothing too serious and that he'll back to his old self with plenty of TLC.

That is amazing news!!

Originally Posted by ProudKittieMom

Well we just got home...we expected him to run up to us when he heard his name like he did when he was gone for 8 months...he is acting very strange and someone brought him in from our neighbor hood...mind u we have posters up everywhere and willie even had a collar on! Someone took him in and said he was a stray...he seems so different he didnt wanna come out of the box !!! his fur is really knotted and he is sick...i walked in and I said he is sick and so my mom asked the lady and she said o its possible my mom said well can we get something and she said wed have to make an appointment at that clinic !!! But we will just go to our vet for that...its a happy day but he just seems soo weird and he is walking around now they did however give him shots my mom cleaned him and according to the vet he was ok...but he can barely walk

and he just seems so weird..my grandma might take him in so he can get better and not have the dogs and everything !!! But he isnt doing good !!!!!

So we are going to see what we can do right now I will update later tho...keep ur fingers crossed that everything is going to be ok...he just seems soo scared

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I'm so glad that you have your baby back.

It sounds like he has had a pretty bad time out there on his own. Please consider making him an indoor only kitty so you don't lose him a 3rd time.

well hes been here all day and he just isnt himself which was a little expected there is something wrong with his leg it is really hard to walk for him, my grandma offered to take him because she only has 2 cats and she has one floor so we are considering it if he doesnt seem any better by the weekend we are going to call the animal rescue league tomarrow and see what they say about his rear..he hasnt gone to the bathroom since hes been here and when we brought him home he had diarreah and went into the box...so yes he did have a bad time it is just soo heartbreaking to see him this way...everyone knew he was missing we had flyers every where but at least he was taken to the shelter where we got him!! He is sick and we started him on clavamax !!! he is skin and bones and he has quit a hair cut now he was ssoo knotted up we had to but it will grow back..he had fleas which they treated him for....its just so hard to see him this way and already midnight has tried to go after him so midnight is confined in the cellar at this moment and for the night...and well I aint going to sleep until morning so I can have an eye on him...I ordered a steak and cheese hoagie and I tried giving him a piece and he didnt want it but he did walk out from behind the chair and sat on the floor and tried to jump on the love seat but didnt work so I picked him up and he just layed on my lap for an hour or 2 then he jumped down and went back behind the chair !!! Its really hard to let him go to my grandmas to heal but it might be better because its one floor and she will take GREAT care of him..and precious is there who wass rescued the same day as Willie so they are both 8 years old and there is a 3 year old cat but who is more calmer than midnigth midnight is a wild wild kittie, and also we got 2 labs that LOVE Willie and missed him and telling them no leave him alone is hard, its been a bitter sweet day I guess...o ya my brothers dog has found the scent of their other dog snowflake and jumped on their door and so they opened it and ran...so I might go up to walk the dog..my brother cant because of his back and his wife is "to tired" so I might go walk with snowflake..today was the day of animals returning home for our family its just so hard to see Willie this way and Bella knows he is here and wants to see him but he doesnt wanna have anything to do with him !!! I really wish I knew what happened to him and where has he been that hes been in our area you know !! What happened to his leg...there is soo many possibilities !! Also someone cut his nails my guess is the animal rescue league vet but they were we=ay to short on the one leg his one nail is just right at the vein there is like no nail...!!!!I just want him to get better and soon!!! This is soo heartbreaking my moms been crying all day and me off and on i had to go to sleep so I can stay up tonite incase midnight is in you kno so my kittiees arent going to like it but they will have to live with it I just dont know what to do...any advice is greatly appreciated !!

Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

I'm so glad that you have your baby back.

It sounds like he has had a pretty bad time out there on his own. Please consider making him an indoor only kitty so you don't lose him a 3rd time.

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Glad you got him back!

Do you think he could have gotten hit by a car?

I've been following this thread and am so glad Willie is back home. As mentioned above it's possible he has been hit by a car. What makes me think it is your mention of his nails being so short. A few years ago I felt like my Spike had been hit and rushed him to the vet. The first thing the vet did was look at his claws. I was a nervous wreck and don't remember much that she said but I do remember her saying that is one of the first things they look for to confirm that a cat has been hit. Spikes were all pretty much ground down so she felt sure that he had been. Thankfully he wasn't hurt bad but he didn't act himself for days. Since Willie is having problems with his leg plus the thing with the nails it would probably be a good thing to get him to the vet as soon as you can. Hope everything goes okay for him!!

well it is 3:58 am willie still hasnt gone to the bathroom and I did just get him to drink some water he still wont eat I am getting all emotional now, I tried to write earlier but its to heartbreaking, then he wanted me to pick him up so he could sleep on my lap !! He is sooooooooooo skinny, i just really wish he would eat something! So tonite has been an emotional rollercoaster for me, so im going to try to update but i just dont know !!! Please keep willie in your prayers that he is going to make thru this fine but i am going to go and check on him again (he went back behind the chair) this is just soo heartbreaking and I just want him to be better so please keep willie in your prayers everyone ! Thanx!!

Congrats!! I am so glad that you got him back. I am sure he will start acting like his old self with a little time. Poor guy.

Sending prayers and hugs from Mississippi for Willie and for you. Take him to your vet and see what is up with him. It does sound like he didn't have a good time being out there all alone. Make him a inside cat when he is all better.

Keep us posted on how he is doing too.

Trixtersmomma and LSULOVER are absolutely right. I hope Willie gets well soon. He and your other cats will be a lot healthier (and less liable to put you on an emotional rollercoaster) if they are indoor pets from now on.

we have tried to make willie an indoor kittie, the closest thing to it was he would go out and sun and come in and at night to no one was allowed to let him out !!!! Its hard to train an outdoor kittie to be indoors when actually thats how he grew up till he was three he was a stray until the animal rescue league got him and he was a social cat but also feral...when we brought him home we tried for the indoor kittie, it just didnt work that well !! And at least if he goes spend time with gram where there is less stress (besides when the kids visit) and it is a one floor place it will be so much easier to teach him to be indoors as of here...well also I just woke up and I spent the whole nite fighting sleep (go figure I have to stay up and i am actually tired at a decent time) But I fought it and then my mom came to check on him around 7 am and I filled her in, today we did make a little improvement that he had a few bites of dry food we are drinking water, and he also ventured through out the house well he tried to at least, he has no problem jumping off of things its just getting up things thats hard and we are able to move his legs and no problems but the limp, we are making a vets appointment for tomarrow or saterday for willie! I am just hoping it is all fine, he did try to walk up the steps today and couldnt so I carried him so he could sleep on my moms bed a little and then I left her room and he followed but now he is back behind the chair downstairs, and myself I had to come check on my 2 brats because well they were in my room all alone since last night (worries me) but they keep smelling willie and giving me the sniff down I am so glad that there are improvemnts from yesterday, he did use the litterbox, and is drinking water and just took some food so thats a major improvement and he is walking or trying to explore so I will keep seeing if he wants food and water, or has to use the litter box and things like that and of course cuddle, his time outside was not a good one at all so lets hope he doesnt wanna go back out, hes my willie and my little love bug and I gotta find his brush so I can make him look pretty and he would enjoy getting brushed he loves it, my mom lost the brush though ! I just really wish I knew what happened and that I could take the pain away, so last nite it was me and willie on the loveseat well at least me until he woke me up cause he wanted to come and lay on me! It does worry me since he is an older cat and at least we are making a vet appointment so we can get to the bottom of this and no diarreah just when we came home yesterday but that could of been from the shots and from getting dewormed, so lets hope he wants to eat. We have a shcedule were he will sleep behind the chair for a few hours then come out and I a) cuddle with him b) take him to see if he will eat or drink anything or c) take him to see if he has to use the litterbox !! So at least I can hopefully get some school work down...but I really should get caught up on some sleep because its me and willie again tonite !!! so lets keep praying that his improvments get better, so far 2 improvements since last night so thats not bad I dont think !! Keep the prayers up, and thanx everyone for soo much and for keeping willie in your prayers ! But now I gotta go and deal with my sinuse issues and a bloody nose at least I hope its my sinuses, with all this in the last past 2 days idk I think I have lost my mind I couldnt believe it but our baby is back, and hopefully does alot better !!!

We just recently brought Elliott into our home.
He showed up at my neighbors door in June of 2005, they said he appeared to be no more than 2 months old.

When we moved into our new home, we were here for three days when I spotted him, I KNEW I had to bring him...he's such a sweet little man.
He was an outside cat for over a year and a half.
At first I was worried that he wouldn't "Take" to become an indoor cat, boy was I wrong..he screamed for the first 10 minutes he was in and that was it.
The other day I opened the door to the upstairs porch, he stood in the doorway, looked out and turned around and went back into the house.

I'm telling you this LONG story just to let you know that you can make a stray an indoor cat....granted Elliott's case is probably not the norm, but maybe if you could get him used to a harness you could take him outside on a leash.

I wish I had a better suggestion for you as to how to make him an indoor kitty.

When you say it didn't work that well when you tried to make him an indoor kitty, what did he do?
I'm sure he howled and screamed and ran for the door everytime it was opened, but where there other things that he did?

Maybe if you posted exactly what he did, someone with the same experiance will be able to give you some suggestions.

I'm not saying any of this to be mean and I don't want you to take it the wrong way.
I'm just trying to think of ways that Willie could become and indoor kitty so that you, your Mom and especially Willie never have to go through this again.

Bless his little heart, I'm so glad that you found him...Please let us know how he's doing and what the Vet has to say.

When ever we would let the dogs out he would run out, but we didnt really worry because he would go out for not that long and in the summer when he was out hes more than likely would be down at the pool with us !!! me and willie sunbathed on the deck to the pool all the time... !!!! Also but we werent doing so good but please keep praying everyone I think your guys prayers are working, we are making progress today he started to eat its only a little bit but he is eating, I had pizza and he came out even while the kids were here and i gave him a piece of cheese and he ate it so my mom gave him so ground meat and he ate some of that too, so she put him on the counter away from the dogs and gave him more but he didnt eat it so she got out some wet food and he ate only a little bit and while I was downstairs he took a few moer nibbles of dry food !! So I think I am making some pregress and also he hasnt gone to the bathroom yet today and his meow has gotten stronger to and it looks like he is walking a little bit better today !!!! his gums are a little white though but now that he is eating I think that is a great improvement do you guys?? Well thats it for now, I will update later tonite !!!!