Missing pets

We had a cat that went missing. It was black and we called it "Blackie" (original, eh?) One day we were going shopping, and I was late up, as I was coming down the stairs I heard a noise at the front door, it was Blackie, he had returned from god-knows-where after about 8 months. He looked very thin and slightly scared of us.

He came in the front door and stood in the hall for a while, but suddenly he got spooked by something, and he shot back out the door and hid under the hedge. We tried to tempt him back out, but he was having none of it. We decided that we should leave him some milk in a saucer near to the hedge, and get some cat food for him when we went shopping.

We went to the shop and thought that by the time we came back that he would have gone, but he was still hiding under the hedge when we got back. We put him some food in a dish and placed it near to him, and left him to get on with it. As the day progressed we tried to tempt him inside, but he looked petrified of us. As the night drew in we left him some more milk and food out, hoping that this would persuade him that we meant him no harm.

When morning came he had vanished. This was several years ago. We don't where he had been, where he had gone, nor what had to happened to him to make him so scared of us.

Jam it back in, in the dark.