Disappearing Act

As is occasionally noted here, my parents live on a “farm” which is only a farm in the sense that they own a bit of livestock and a bit more land, but it certainly is a farm for taxable purposes, so we’ll call it one for our purposes too. Anyway, no farm is complete without a few friendly pets (well, besides the livestock) and that’s something the farm has always had in the form of cats and dogs. Recently, there have been notably fewer cats.

More recently, one of our cats, Tom, simply disappeared. Naturally, this left me saddened, confused, and full of questions. I now turn my query to you readers: Is this normal? Do cats (who for all of their lives hardly leave your garage) sometimes just suddenly disappear?

Granted, the only sensible thought seems to be that a predator attacked him, but (although we do admittedly live a bit in the wilderness) I find it a little discomforting to believe a predator could have attacked Tom within a few feet of my parents’ house, which is as far as he ever strayed. Still, I suppose it’s the only rational answer, other than him simply running away, which isn’t entirely likely either. Of course, there’s no way of ever knowing either, since it’s been a week now, and he’s clearly not exactly going to return and tell his story.

Oh well.

And, no, there was no purpose to this entry, other than my wanting to pout about my cat being gone. Live with it.

Addendum: The cat was 5 years old, so old age isn’t it.