Feral cat I’ve been feeding regularly disappeared. I’m so sad :(
My husband and I have been feeding our feral cat, “Baby” for a little over a year. We recently were able to trap her in the summer of 2024 and got her spayed. She recovered nicely and gained weight and never missed her morning or evening meals and treats.
She usually comes every day and we have not seen her since Friday (1/17/25) early in the morning. This is very uncharacteristic of her. We haven’t seen her on our cameras either. We did have a new cat that decided to start coming. He is somebody’s indoor/outdoor cat and he is very friendly - Baby would even bump her head with his. They didn’t seem to mind each other. I’m just so worried? Is it still possible she might come back? We had spent so much time gaining her trust and over the past month or so she finally started letting us fully pet her and give her scratches. I’m so devastated by this and cannot help but run through all the bad scenarios of what could have happened. I included some pictures of her. She has a bad right eye that she has had since we started feeding her, but the vet said they were not worried about it as it doesn’t seem to bother her.