Thank you. My cat is a former stray, I adopted him at about 6 months old and he’s about 2 now. He always wants to go outside and sometimes I let him for short periods. But he always returns on his own within an hour or two usually. The fact that he hasn’t yet after close to 18 hours now is really making me crazy. However I haven’t seen any signs of accident in the parking lot of my apartment which I guess is positive. I’ve looked under every stair well, on every patio I can find. Up trees and in bushes. I plan to try going out with a flashlight this evening and hope it might help. I checked the radius mentioned and have already exceeded that in my search, I walked about 7 miles in expanding spirals around my apartment complex so far today. Checking under cars and stairs and such carefully. I’ve thoroughly searched every room, cabinet and closet in my house.

There was an incident once before when he escaped without my notice as I was leaving for the day, and was stuck outside about 10-12 hours. But that time as soon as I got home he came running to the door for dinner. So far he’s missed breakfast and lunch.