Cat missing for a month. finally made it back home!
by Heather
(Elida, Ohio, USA)
this is Munch when she was 4 months old
My cat Munch was one of my favorite kittens. She acted and loved dogs and all our other cats. Then about a month an a half ago she got outside and took off. Sshe was gone and I was very upset.
On Feb. 10, 2009 a got a phone call from the local Humane Society saying someone found a cat matching my missing cat. I called the lady and got her address and went to see if it was my Munch. It was her, the lady said she had had her for about a month. Well come to find out she didn't take every good care of Munch, she had poop matted on her butt and she looked like she wasn't fed at all!
So we brought her home and bathed her. We cut the poop off her (which weighed about half a pound) and once we got her cleaned and dried we noticed that her skin had been peeling off from where all that stuff was matted to her, it had been on there so long that it was weighing down her back end and peeling skin off.
It's been 2 days since we have had her back and she is finally eating and walking around. Still not the best, but she is doing a lot better than what those people did to her. Right now I'm trying to get in touch with someone about the way these people treated her and to have the Humane Society go to there house to make sure all their other animals are healthy. I don't know how someone could do something that wrong to any animals....
It's going to be a long time till Munch is back to normal. But that's something I'm willing to do to make my cat healthy and in better shape.
