‘He’s right back to sleeping next to my mom and joining my dad in his home office during the day.’: Beloved cat child, who went missing near coyote-filled woods, found months later and immediately resumes his cozy life of comfort and cuddles

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Oct 6, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Cats sure are an interesting bunch. With personalities that vary widely and wondrously all the way from woefully worried and scared of every little thing in the world, to callously courageous to the point of stupidity.

The problem being that while your cat child might fit into a certain point along that spectrum, at a moment's notice they can jump to another point within that spectrum without you having the faintest idea how or why they made the move. And that is what the pawrents of this story's cat found out the hard way, when their long time indoor cat child made the leap to outdoor legend by leaping out of the boundaries of its home to discover the outside world. Little did it know that coyotes frequent the outside world near his home, but seeing that he was found months later, one might assume that he figured out a way to lead the coyotes without becoming their lunch.
 

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    Mr Binx had a sad story before he came to my parents. He was declawed by a previous owner, and then returned and adopted and
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    returned to the shelter twice. And the second time, the owner was supposedly ill and in tears about having to surrender him.
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    TODAY 2:13 PM Did you find your cat Binx? :16 PM No. 2:18 PM Can you call me? 20 PM Is the cat declawed? PM Yes! Did yours ever have tummy troubles? Or have to eat a special food?
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    < 2:42 5G 43 4 PM Did he ever have loose poop? 55 PM He was indifferent with dogs. Binx was really easy going. No, but he was always inside. 38 PM He wound his tail in a circle a lot. He had a few white hairs on his chest and just one here and there on his body. 29 PM He would not eat anything but dry food until about a year before he escaped. He discovered a love for wet food and, of all things, nacho cheese dorito pieces. Lol 39 PM So in September someone brought the a senior black cat as an o
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    When my sister went to adopt him, he was quiet and sad, sitting at the back of his cage. The shelter said he was often passed over and had
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    been there for a while. He was about 2-3 years old. My parents have had him for an additional almost 14 years. He's a sweet, soft purring gentleman.
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  • Oh, what a poor thing, to spend the first two years of your life in such turmoil, such uncertainty, sounds incredibly difficult. How could this sweet soul even dare to trust in anyone ever again? Well, it seems that this is such a sweet soul that even with all the let-downs and messing arounds, there was still enough space in his heart to let someone love him.

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    Back in July, one of the grandkids left a door open, and he got out. My parents live right on the edge of a wooded area and have lost
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    two cats over the past decade and a half in the same way, one not too long before Mr Binx disappeared-
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    another beloved house panther named Baylee. :( All 3 times, my family went looking and asking neighbors throughout the
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    surrounding neighborhoods and woods, posting everywhere online in the search of them. But there are a
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    LACAC ۵
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    considerable amount of coyotes in the area, and no one contacted my mom. ...Until now! A
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    worker from a shelter a town over reached out to my mother (in pink), and it turned out to be him!
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  • Holy moly, we cannot imagine what might have caused this brave kitten to step out of his comfortable home and explore the coyote filled outdoors, but what a wonderful ending to a story that began with such worry. Purrhaps the catto just wanted to go for a long walk after many years of being housebound.

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    He's skinny, and having tummy issues, but he's right back to sleeping next to my mom (and on her) and joining my dad in his home office during
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    the day. Welcome back to Mr Binx. I'm so glad he can spend his golden years being loved.
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    Any-... So glad he is home. Who surrends a cat for having a sensitive stomach?!
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    Head... I'm so glad you guys found him! He must feel so relieved to be home again, what a sweet little
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    gentleman. Now he can eat nacho doritos again in the safety of his home
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