Oh, poor Snowbooks author. My cat went missing about four years ago and I was beside myself. He was gone for over a month. I'd begun to accept that I might never see him again, and when I came home one evening, there was an A4-sized piece of paper on the mat, complete with picture of Boddington, saying, 'Is this your cat?' He had gone over a mile away to someone else's house, and they'd kept him safely all that time. I don't know why they wanted to give him back, as he is the greatest cat in the world, but I relate this anecdote as a story of hope.

Oh, what a beautiful cat!

I'm in Yorkshire, but not near York, so can't help with a physical search. I can, however, suggest this method which has helped me find missing cats in the past:

The owner should sit calmly at home and think about the missing cat. Visualise the cat surrounded by a lavender coloured blanket. From this blanket, draw out a thread and use it to show the cat a path home.

The owner must have total confidence that this will work. If the cat is still alive – which is obviously an issue where missing cats are concerned – and if the owner can apply a strong enough focus (but don’t go so far as to make them feel like a failure if it doesn’t work) the cat should come home. The idea is to provide a psychic path for the cat to follow – and it will, if it can. It can take a few concentrated hours, but I've used it twice, successfully, in the past – one cat woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he’d come home. The other one, I saw running up the path days after I'd given up hope of ever seeing her again.

My best wishes to the cat’s owner. I never know which is worse – the uncertainty of a missing cat, or the sure knowledge that one has died.

Good luck

Dee

Excellent news, i can now make the comment that that cat is sooo photo-shopped its untrue!

And clearly it is a very important point to remember not to have your psychic cat path running through a locked house.

Very pleased that the cat has been found.
A whole day without a post from Em. I hope you are OK.