A few months ago, Mojo (a large, neutered tom about 8 years old)
disappeared, just didn't come in one morning. Of course I did all the things
you do when a cat goes missing, checked with all the neighbors, put up
flyers, checked with local vets & the pound, but nothing, not a whisper, not
a purr.

After a couple of weeks I pretty much gave up and assumed he'd got in
trouble with a car or some local wildlife and wouldn't be coming back, it
was a real bummer as he was a great cat, one of the finest specimens of a
black cat I've ever seen, looked like he was part leopard, and real a talker
;-)

Anyway, a couple of months later I'm sitting out by my pool at dusk and I
see a cat "shadow" outside the screened pool enclosure moving cautiously
toward the cat door. Very gingerly this cat pokes it's head through the cat
flap like a cat that's tried lots of strange cat doors in the last few
weeks. Satisfied that finally this was the *right* cat door he comes in, and
yes, it's Mojo returned from his adventures. He was in very good condition
(for a cat that's been living wild for 2 months) he'd lost some weight, down
to about 13LBs from his 18LB fighting weight (did I say he's a big cat :-)
but his coat was in great condition and he was really glad to be home. For
the next few weeks he was very vocal about how glad he was to be home and if
I sat down for a minute he'd be on my lap in flash.

So I'm left with the mystery of where he went, he hadn't been injured, and
if he'd been simply cadging food from the neighbors, someone would have seen
him and he wouldn't have lost all the weight. So I'm 99% certain that he
must have been living wild. The only thing that makes sense to me is that he
managed to get himself shut in a car or delivery van and taken for a ride,
then had to walk home, but how far did walk, two months is a long time, a
cat could walk a long way in two months!

Anybody else have similar stories or alternative theories about what the
hell he was upto?