Chili never stayed out late. He always stayed in our garden or in Woodlands Cemetery behind our garden. When I called him in, Chili would always appear minutes later, he was never far from home. On Friday 26th July 2019 at 8pm, Chili ate his dinner and went outside. At 9pm I called him, Chili didn't come back. At 9.20pm I called him again, no sign of him. All night I called Chili but he didn't come back. The next morning, while we were out posting leaflets through doors and looking for him, a neighbour told us a cat had been hit by a car the night before outside her house at about 9.30. The neighbour's house is almost opposite mine and I had never spoken to her before. As she described the cat, she was looking at the picture on the leaflet I was holding and said he hadn't survived being hit. She was told by the people in the car that they would take the cat to the PDSA emergency vet. I asked if she had taken their name and number or any details about the car, she said no just that it was two women. I phoned the PDSA and the emergency vet and they said he hadn't been brought in. I phoned every vet in the area, I went to the PDSA and phoned them several times, but Chili hadn't been taken to any vet. But then, five days later, the neighbour added more details. It was a silver or grey car, it was a Lexus, the two women were passengers, a man had been driving the car and he had a prosthetic leg. I started looking for a silver or grey Lexus driven by a man with a prosthetic leg. I found him two weeks after Chili had disappeared. He was parked on the corner of a road near where I live, waiting to pick someone up. He told me that he had given all his details to my neighbour, he had taken the cat to the PDSA emergency vet, given them his details and even reported it to the police. He said I could phone the vet or police now and check. Then he told me that there had been two cats, one was chasing the other across the road. I phoned the vet again and asked. This time they told me, yes, a cat had been taken in but it had been chipped and the owner had collected it. They had been looking for a cat matching Chili's description and microchip number, that's why I couldn't find him at any vets, because Chili was the cat being chased across the road and not the poor little one who had been hit. For two weeks we believed Chili had died and someone had driven away with him, not bothering to take him to the vet. But now we knew, if Chili had run in that direction then he wouldn't know where he was, he'd never been across the road before. We went looking for Chili in Beatty Avenue and Centenary Gardens directly behind the houses opposite ours, posting missing leaflets. A young girl said she'd seen him sitting on the wall at the end of the road. One woman in Beatty Avenue said that a cat matching Chili's picture had been sitting on a shed roof for two days, not moving even though it had rained continually. That was the day after he went missing. She said she got him down after two days but he had scratched her so she'd let him go. Another person in Beatty Avenue said that, after the cat had been on the shed roof, it had been staying in her garden for a week. It looked exactly like Chili and she'd fed him, but then she had gone on holiday for a week and had only just got back. Another lady in the same road said she had fed him after he had walked into her house but she didn't know he was a missing cat. A man phoned and said Chili was in his garden but when we got there he had run off. This man's daughter phoned a few days later and said Chili had been in their next door's garden, she'd called him by his name and he'd gone to her for a stroke. She said it was definitely him because of the one black toe and the two patches of white on his chest and long white whiskers, but her dog had gone into the garden and frightened him away. A man in Centenary Gardens said he had seen him a few times and had fed him too. For nine days, people phoned saying they had seen him and we searched every time, but we couldn't find him. A few months later, several people phoned and said they had seen a cat that looked very much like Chili at the end of Woodlands Pathway, around Cobham Rise, outside Woodlands Cemetery and around Chicago Avenue. We have put up posters, posted leaflets through doors and shared on social media. We have contacted vets and rescue centres. His chip is up to date, registered and says he is lost.

Chili has distinctive white chest markings, four white paws and one toe on his front paw has black fur.

Contact	Contact Member
Missing since	30 Nov -0001
Breed	Domestic Short Hair
Dominant colour	Black and White
Gender	Male
Approx age	7
Microchipped	Yes
Location	ME7
Pet Listing ID	95858

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