Family Pet Found!

Beauie went missing just before Christmas. He is a 13 year old Burmese cross cat with the most beautiful placid nature and our girls have grown up with him here in Melbourne. He is loved very much so when he didn't come home for breakfast or dinner on Thursday 22nd Dec we got worried. And the next day, and the next day.

On the Friday I made up posters with a photo of him and put it in the letterboxes of homes in our street and in a local shop window. Also laminated and stuck copies of it on our two front gateways for passing pedestrian traffic. Nothing. And then on Boxing Day (26 Dec) I went out to feed Shadow (another of our 3 cats) and Beauie jumped down from a box he was in, limping badly. His front right paw was swollen and filled with pus - the vet couldn't tell us what might have happened, perhaps a bite, perhaps a tear if he had his foot trapped somewhere. Anyway, he's been home now 6 days and not liking his collar or bandage but loving all the attention. His paw isn't stuck in the air by the way, he just likes to shake it to try and get the thing off - and it looks like he's holding it up to show you all!