Lost Cat Profile

ORANGIE Missing   Saturday  1/17 approx. 12 am to 3am    
Lynzi Estrada      
Indoor Cat only  6 years old, Male, 8lbs, orange, no patches

 

FOUND on Feb 22  after 35 days

Hiding in house at 1200 Lime Kiln Road  San Marcos TX 78666  
very thin but kidney and liver values okay! 
    
Background
I was driving approx 40 mph on Lime Kiln bringing my cat home from vet). My cat was not in a carrier and escaped jumping out the rear driver side window that I didn't know he could push open (broken latch on window).  When I heard the window thumping, I turned to look and he was gone. 

 

I stopped the car and couldn't find him, so I panicked and drove back the way I came to see if I could find him.  Didn't see any sign of him on the road, so in a panic drove home so my boyfriend could search the car, because I figured he was hiding somewhere.  I am unsure of the exact location where this occurred, it could be anywhere on about a mile stretch of Lime Kiln.  He has been hospitalized off and on for over a month.
 
He had been at the vet for 2 days because of vomiting.  He has been in treatment for kidney disease and heart problems since December.
 
Have you seen or heard coyotes or heard about sightings in your area?  Yes
 
I've been combing the area he was lost as much as possible to try to spot him, using flashlights and stopping every few feet and calling him loudly.  Doing this on both sides of the road.  I only managed to cover about a half mile on one side of the road...possibly the stretch of road he jumped out but I'm not certain.  Also yesterday, walked from my house down to the area he got lost, hoping to leave a trail of my scent to home (it's about 5 miles from the site to home).
 
It's just hard to say since there's SO much rural terrain out here and I do not know exactly where he jumped out. Maybe he got injured and hid somewhere and won't/can't come out, or a coyote got him.  I'm also worried that I made things worse with the food and the belongings we left.
 
UPDATE:

Guess what Kim!?

The people at the house you predicted where you saw the orange hair caught on the board that day you came out called me me on a Thursday night saying they were pretty sure they found my cat and even mentioned the shaved stomach.

 

I was skeptical since it just seemed too good to be true - I went over their place that night at about 10pm.
 
The husband said that their 2 year old daughter said "We have a new cat" and shortly after they spotted him in the house - he tried to pick him up and apparently got clawed up really bad. He scurried away somewhere and they couldn't locate him.
 
That night I walked around the house for about 30 minutes calling his name.  Sure enough, I heard a tiny little meow as I was passing by the couch. We lifted the couch and I could not believe my eyes but it was him!  He was super skinny and it was hard to get over my disbelief and convince myself it was him!! 
 
I dragged him out from under the couch but he started freaking out when I attempted to put him in the cat carrier and ran away and hid somewhere in the house. I looked for him for about an hour, but it was getting late so we decided I'd come back the next day. At that point since I knew we'd located him, I wasn't too worried about not being able to capture him right away..I knew that he knew I was looking for him and was safe in their house, so was confident it'd be just a matte of time before we could lure him out of hiding.
 
I returned the next afternoon and he was eventually found upstairs in a closet in their bedroom. Tona was able to wrangle him into the carrier and we took him straight to the vet.
 
He was skinny but seemed okay. I was so relieved  when the vets said he'd improved a little bit. I was certain that even if we found him that his kidney disease would have progressed.  He had fleas but no major issues. He stayed at the vet for 2 nights for monitoring.
 
When we brought him home, you could tell he was SO happy to be back!  He slept for almost a week straight. Another good thing is that he eats a lot more than he used to since he got sick! Before he was lost his appetite wasn't that great but he really eats a lot more now. I'm guessing that it's since he's experienced starvation for so long.
 
Kim, I definitely still plan to write that review about you and your lost cat finder pet detective skills! It's been my list of things to do and I will for sure get that written in the next few weeks or so.
 
Lynzi​