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Anybody ever lost an animal, and then found it again a really long time later?

pic related
>> Anonymous
yup, cat escaped from box on way to vet.
Got a call from animal shelter 2 months later.
Cat back all happy.
>> Anonymous
iguana escapes. found in tree a week later.
>> Anonymous
My gecko was gone one day, so I thought he had escaped. My chameleon died suddenly on the same night, and was fatter than normal so I figured he had eaten my gecko. I move an hour away shortly after. 4 months later my room mate tells me that his mom was talking about finding a weird gecko. Sure enough it was the one I thought was dead. It had been out loose in the neighborhood where I had been living when it escaped for most all that time.
>> Anonymous
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my sister owns a creamsicle corn snake. He escaped his cage when he was a little less than a year old, and was missing for six months. The whole family figured he was dead, and so my sister bought a new snake. Sure enough, within a week of buying the new one, the old guy showed up again, alive and only a little worse for wear. Our cats found him, actually, and he had a couple of punctures before we got them out of the way. We figure he hung out in our laundry room, underneath the water heater where it was warm, eating spiders and insects. He was pretty dehydrated.

Anywho, that's him in the pic, he's still around today and he's awesome. Had him wrapped around my head a couple weeks ago while his cage was cleaned. Fun.
>> Anonymous
>>160844
>>161018
4 and 6 months? That's pretty amazing. Would the OP mind telling us the story of how he found his gecko?
>> Anonymous
>>161018
thats a nice colour
had a snow corn once beautiful snakes
longest I lost one was a weekend tore th house apart found it in a cuboard sleeping
>> Anonymous
>>161018

Wrapped around your head? Damn...that's pretty ballin.
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>>161022
I already did tell the story>>160844
Where he was found is about 60 yards away from my old house. It's kind of a crowded neighborhood with about a dozen other homes within that distance. There are tons of cats, dogs, birds, and even spiders big enough to pose a threat to him around there.It was a massive streak of coincidence that I got him back. I guess I can thank the natural selection of madagascar that he avoided all the threats. It was about to start getting cold and snowy there too.
>> Anonymous
My cat went missing for a week, then showed up covered in fine dust. I'm guessing he got locked in a shed or something.
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>>161056

My cat used to go 'missing' all the time.
She'd be gone for days and then she was gone for a week and a half once, I was worried sick.

It wasn't until the day she came back with a collar on that we realized she'd suckered someone into feeding her and keeping her around for days at a time before sauntering back to our worried selves for even more love and attention.
"Oh hai guise, miss me?"

She also used to disappear for a day or so and come back covered in random things like dust, mud, thistles, feathers .. .one time she came back and looked fine but smelled like Anna Nicole's vagina, it was awful. We had to bring her to the groomer to get the smell out, they said she probably rolled in something extremely rancid and dead.

She is the big cat in the picture.
>> ?????????????????????????????Anymonous?
When my father was young his cat went out and came back a year later. On its own.
>> Anonymous
I lost a small crab (about the size of my thumb) for about two years. Then my dad found it living in the kitchen. He almost killed it because he thought it was a cockroach 0__0
>> Anonymous
>>161181
What in god's name was it living on during that time? No wonder he thought it was a roach, that kitchen must be disgusting.
>> Anonymous
My mother had a pet duck which was quite young, one day it ran away. Years later she went for a wak to the park near her house and saw a group of ducks in the water, all of them were brown except one which was white. Turned out to be her duck.
>> Anonymous
>>161115

that is a cute but very sad picture, the cat is seemingly trying to sleep and the kitten is being pinned down

cat: so sleepy... *thud*
kitten: what the hell!? i'm not a pillow, get off!
cat: zzzz...
kitten: damn it
>> Anonymous
>>161115
Similar story, my gf's cat is an outdoor cat. She goes in and out. Sometimes she would be gone for days. One day her leg was shaved, probably when the other person the cat ws visiting tried to get it spayed. She would also come back bathed sometimes.
>> Anonymous
>>161285
oh god, GTFO seriously
>> Anonymous
I would be so offended if one of my cats came back with a collar I hadn't put on.
I'd probably write a nasty message on the collar for the jackasses who thought they owned my cat..
>> Anonymous
>>161219

Crabs are amazing scavengers. I've seen Asians feed them leftover rice and anchovies.
>> Anonymous
>>161303
what? I liked 285's story, it made me chuckle into my coffee cup :(
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>>161285

That kitten is actually my ex's brother's kitten and my cat is biting it's leg the kitten is screaming in protest. My cat would viciously attack it (made it bleed once), completely at random until she finally stopped hating it about two months after he brought it home.

The pic is another of that attack duration.

Don't worry she'd often lick and cuddle with it after said abuse.
>> Anonymous
>>161338
My cat owned them.
She showed up looking all sad and lonely and weaseled her way into their fucking house for their food and love. I wouldn't be surprised if she bit them or scratched them once or twice or growled at them and they forgave her because they thought she was a stray.
This is why she is called "Bitch-Kitty"
>> Anonymous
When I was 7 I lost my goldfish, I was devastated. I woke up one morning and she was gone. I was so sad. I kept the tank in hope she would oneday come back to me. Six months later she came back one morning! Good thing I kept that tank.
>> Anonymous
I was at my friends house one day and he had this pretty large fish in an open-top aquarium

I spent the night there and I woke up to my friend complaining about how one of his treasured fish had disappeared

he dismissed it until later I had to plug in my cell phone to charge it when I look near the outlet (which is tucked away behind the aquarium) when what do I find but his fish, barely alive and begging for some H20

we tossed that sucker in and hes been fine ever since but I just cant believe he spent a horrible night lying on a dry carpet trying to breathe
>> Anonymous
I know a person whose turtle once disappeared.

When they moved out a couple of years later, they found it had gotten stuck under a closet and died of starvation.
>> Anonymous
>>161115
SIMPONS DID IT!
>> Anonymous
>>161417
>>161432

I lol'd
>> Anonymous
i had a little crab in my aquarium and he went missing.

i figured he just died under a fake plant or something

few weeks later i found him under a chair. he'd have to climb out of the aquarium, out of the room, down the stairs, across a hallway and into another room to get there.

he was dead mind you, but i still found him.
>> Anonymous
I had a beta jump out of the cup I was housing him in while I cleaned his tank, he went down the drain in the bathroom. two days later while washing my hands the drain plugged up and he came back up. . . still dont know how he survived but he went on to live another year.5
>> gizmogal !MmLOyiCYJs
Ok, this may take a while to explain...
I had two mice, brand new, etc (at the time I also had two guinea pigs)
Ok, so one day I notice that um... where's the mouse? THE OTHER ONE ATE IT.
The next few days pass, and SUPRISE, the mouse is pregnant (from her devoured spouse, or maybe before i got her...) and has babies.
Since she pretty much warms the babies all the time, I never could keep count of them.
Then the number started to drop. There were tiny skulls in the corner every time I cleaned her cage...
Finally, there is ONE baby left, almost ready to be on its own (at this point I separated the mice for fear of the little guy being eaten!)... later in the week I come home to see that the divider for the two cages has been flipped out, and the mother has EATEN THE BABY AND ESCAPED.

In addition, the crazy mom mouse then killed both our guinea pigs (we think) as we found them both dead the next morning.

TDLR version, the lost mouse turned up in a mouse trap later.
I was not sad.
>> Anonymous
>>162096
GENOCIDE MODE
>> Anonymous
>>162096
A mouse killed two guinea pigs? Hmmm.....NO
>> Anonymous
I had a cat vanish then a similar-looking cat showed up a year later and acted like he owned the place. Very odd, because I was never certain if it was or was not the same cat.
>> Anonymous
One day my female black cat left.. she was gone for like a month before she came back.
and it was weird, because when she came back, she was a boy.
>> Anonymous
>>162096
There would have been a noticeable amount of injury and blood if two guinea pigs were killed through violence by a mouse. Guinea pigs make a quite a a bit of noise if they're hurt. It would only take one or two bites from a guinea pig to finish off a mouse. Guinea pig bites are very painful and bleed profusely.
They probably just got sick, or ate something they shouldn't have.
>> Anonymous
Mother mice have are known to eat the babies, but the only reeason I have encountered a full grown mouse eat another adult mouse was because I neglected to feed it. Could this have been similiar?>>162096
>> Anonymous
My brother lost his ball python. Found it a few days later in the spot where I told everyone it was probably there but no one wanted to check because there was a bunch of heavy boxes and whatnot.

Also, he lost another little snake over a year ago. I wouldn't be surprised if it's still alive since bugs, mice, etc get into our basement(shit sucks when you live in front of a swamp).
He also lost a hamster he 'won' at the pet store the first day he had it.

One of my rats also got out twice, but all I had to do is go around the house calling him and he came running to me each time.
>> Anonymous
i lost a hamster a few years ago. I kept the cage open and i kept putting food. It seemed to come back, eat, and leave. I later heard some noises inside my couch. I flipped it over and there was a hole under the couch. I got it to come close enough to the hole to grab it.
I lost it again but i just put some peanut butter in the cage and it came back and stayed.\

They love them nuts.
>> Anonymous
lost me nuts
>> Anonymous
I have had this problem before. We had a cuban tree frog that got out of the tank and went missing for six weeks. We thought him dead. One day our ferret went behing our couch and returned with the frog in his mouth. We were surprized our ferret didnt eat him or let alone kill him. We ended up having him for another six months before he died.
>> Anonymous
>>162270
rats are great like that. I had a rat in my dorm room even though we weren't supposed to.. one day she figured out how to get into the next room and I woke up at 2am to shrieking girls. I quietly called my rat, scared they'd kill her or have some preppy dorm guy kill her, and she came right away.
>> Anonymous
I have two ferrets that are very good about sneeking out of their cage and out of my apt. Their favorite place to go is the basement in our building. That is where everyone in the building does laundry. The poor woman downstairs is deadly afriad of my ferrets. So many times I have figured out where they where because of her screams.
>> Anonymous
My best friend in elementary school had a russian blue cat named Smokey. They took Smokey a couple hundred miles away on a family vacation, and he got loose.

2 fucking years later, that damn cat showed up on their doorstep. I shit you not. He had the same scars and markings and everything.

He wasn't as friendly after that, but man... he was fucking determined.
>> gizmogal !MmLOyiCYJs
>>162099
>>162210
yeah, we think that also, since we had them in the basement while we had guests, they died from the cold
OR
we had just gotten them both new waterbottles and it was something to do with that...

the mouse does seem unlikely, but I did find the trap later near the same area of the basement.