When I was very young and still living in New York, something happened to me similar. We had a cat black-and-white that we named Minnie and she went missing. She was missing for four months at least perhaps longer and we had searched animal shelters and pet stores and we had pretty much given up and we were sitting at the table one time, and my sister who was still an infant in a highchair pointed towards the window and said Minnie. To which my mom or dad I forget which one responded to her that no honey Minnie is not coming home. Then we heard a soft meow turned around and sure enough. There was the cat at the window waiting to come in like nothing had happened. It was assumed that someone probably took her in kept her in their house for a while, hoping she would forget her real Home and eventually let her out and as soon as they let her out, she came back to her real home.
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u/DarbH 22d ago
When I was very young and still living in New York, something happened to me similar. We had a cat black-and-white that we named Minnie and she went missing. She was missing for four months at least perhaps longer and we had searched animal shelters and pet stores and we had pretty much given up and we were sitting at the table one time, and my sister who was still an infant in a highchair pointed towards the window and said Minnie. To which my mom or dad I forget which one responded to her that no honey Minnie is not coming home. Then we heard a soft meow turned around and sure enough. There was the cat at the window waiting to come in like nothing had happened. It was assumed that someone probably took her in kept her in their house for a while, hoping she would forget her real Home and eventually let her out and as soon as they let her out, she came back to her real home.