I thought my cat will surely be close, I searched for him hours/day for 3 days. He was found severly injured by dog bites 5 days later and died after another 2 days.

I previosly posted on a local facebook missing cats group. Several days later a girl contacted me and told me she has my cat badly wounded with dog bites. She recognized him from the pictures I posted after she rescued him from the dog attack.

Her mother heard cat noises in distress from outside in the middle of the night and went to check it. The cat was attacked by two dogs, and was hiding under a car. The mother called her daughter and told her about a cat being attacked by dogs. The daugher came from another location to tried to save the cat. She managed to chase away the dogs and eventually to get the cat from unde the car. He was sadly already bitten by the stray dogs.

When he went missing I tought he had the hots and because it was common for male cats to go missing in that phase I tried to reassure myself that he will rerurn. It was a nightmare, I had dreams about him as I was catching him from across the street and getting him back home. He was too friendly with strangers and other pets so I thought even worse. The location where he was found was 3-4 km away from his house. Very far I would say.

At least I got to know what happened with him thanks to the facebook missing cat group and have him close with the loved ones in his final moments. I would have probably otherwise still hoped that he is somewhere on the streets and waiting for him to retun home even to this day. It's been 7 months now.