I rang Nick today to see if there was any news.  He said she has been
spotted back at the bungalow where she normally lives, although he has not
seen her himself.  I asked him who saw her, and could it have been another
cat perhaps, he said it was the next door neighbour who knows her well but
when he called her, she ran off into a neighbouring garden.
If it was indeed her, she is not going into the bungalow at all through the
cat flap as any food put down inside remains untouched.  Food is now being
put down outside daily which disappears, but of course, like Nick says,
anything could be taking it, from other cats to foxes to hedgehogs.
Things are not going very well for her meowmie,Thelma, either.  She'd been
transferred to a rehab hospital with a view to getting her up on her feet
and home again in a month.  She deteriorated and had to be sent back to the
hospital she was in at first for further treatment.  Nick says she has
become confused, so they are waiting for the results of a brain scan, they
suspect a mild stroke while she's been in hospital.  Even worse, the op she
had on her leg to improve the circulation hasn't worked very well, and the
surgeons are tentatively suggested amputation as the worst of only two
options.

I'm just hoping against hope that it *was* Jess that the neighbour saw and
that she goes through the cat flap into her home soon.  She can at least
wait there, going in and out as she chooses to, for her meowmie to come
home.  The trouble is, I think if Thelma isn't there, it's stopped being her
home :-(

Tweed