'Missing cat' turns up after 29 days discovered in the same 100 year old family home after insomniac dad catches her stealing the other cat's food at 3 am, leaving them both equally surprised

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Feb 4, 2026 10:00 AM EST

Finding your cat after losing them has to be the most cathartic feeling in the world. 

You're so worried, as a cat owner, when your cat goes missing. Because you know just how dependent they are on you. You feed them, you give them water, you clean up after them and love on them. They may act as if they are independent, but one look at them is enough for us to know that they would not survive one day without us. And the thought of them alone, in the big wide world, without us to tend to each and every one of their needs, is terrifying. 

The last thing you want is for your cat to go missing, but if you are one of the lucky ones who gets to reunite with your cat, then you become the happiest person in the world. And for the person in this story, that feeling must have been even better, because this kitty was not lost in the big wide world. The kitty was lost in a giant 100-year-old mansion, surrounded by family, and stealing the other cat's food in the middle of the night. Went on an adventure, this little one, and then came right back home. 

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    My cat Fiona, went missing for 29 days. I had given up hope, having reached out to friends and family, her tracking chip network, and prayed to any god that would listen. Then one morning at 6 am, I was informed to "come over and pick up your fucking cat". 5 hours and 300 miles later she is home.
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    Due_Addendum4854 Who had her? That's pretty harsh language for strangers.
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    Murmadurk OP My family. My fiancee and I took her to visit my childhood home with my parents, and she went missing. I had searched for hours there, but couldn't find her. The house is 100+ years old so she must have found some kind of hidden hidey hole? We weren't sure, but apparently she had been sneaking out to steal other cat's food at 3 am and it wasn't until my father had a fit of insomnia that they realized she was still in the house.
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  • If we are imagining the right thing when we read “100+ year old house”, then really, you should have known the kitty was in a hiding place somewhere in there. A mansion like that is basically like an endless playground for a cat. So many places to discover. So many cozy little spots to chill in. Five hours could never have been enough to go through all the potential hiding places the kitty could have found. But we would have also found some peace in that - knowing that she was most likely still in there somewhere, just waiting for the right moment to come back out into the world of the humans. 

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    DoctorLinguarum She looks kind of like my uncle's cat, also called Fiona. Fiona survived an unknown severe injury she acquired outside. Your Fiona has similar good luck.
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    Murmadurk OP Oh that's crazy! My fiancee and I actually rescued her after she had survived an attack from some kind of animal, that's how we found her. Hell of a coincidence. We're actually surprised how quickly she got comfortable with our dogs, considering her injury seemed like it was a canine's jaw. Now she rules the roost and the dogs worship her.
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    Loopoo 700 Who was it who had found her in the end?
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    Murmadurk OP My family, she was hiding in the basement of my childhood home. We searched for hours but she must have found some liminal zone known only to felines to hide in.
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    EyeRolling Now "Come get your fucking cat". lol. My answer would be "I am on my fucking way". Thank God you got her back. Your dog must have been losing its mind.
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    Murmadurk OP Oh I got dressed and immediately into the car. The dogs were so upset while she was gone.
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    Fearless_Debate_4135 Wow, how rude to tell you that!
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    Murmadurk OP I'm just glad she's back. I can live with a little brusqueness.
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  • We can imagine the moment that the dad found her purrfectly. The kitty, sneaking out into the wide home from its hiding spot in search of food. The father, tired out of his mind, on the way to the kitchen, doing the exact same thing. And the two of them, coming acorss each other in the hall on their way to their respective quests, both equally as surprised by the other one being there. We can see it so clearly, and the image of it makes us snort each and every time. 

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    VisitAbject4090 I don't think there is any amount of money I wouldn't pay to hear what she has to tell about that trip
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    Away-Elephant-4323 From the looks of her face she'll happily do it again haha! Glad she's safe!
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    KlikketyKat We had a cat once that managed to escape from the house, snuck into the neighbor's van and ended up being driven to the other side of the city. Luckily, at the end of the trip they realised she was in the back of the van, prevented her from escaping and brought her back home again.
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    14high "I've seen some shits dawg"
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    Due-Cheesecake-6973 Cats love to hide "inside" couches.
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    Ok-Leg-5302 My attic is sealed off. Some how some way my senior domestic long hair found a micro sized hole(seriously don't know how his beastly shape fit in it) was up there for 3 days. I was a reck. He also meows weird(he sounds like a fog horn).
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