Cat returned home after 2 months, but is very skinny

[Kaitie09]

My 3 legged cat, Nancy, went missing in the middle of June. we searched for 2 weeks straight asking all the neighbors if they had seen her. After another week and several neighbors mentioning that they saw a coyote in the area, we resigned ourselves to thinking she would not survive. Tonight, she came home. She has always been skinny, but right now she is practically skin and bones. It seems like she was eating, but not regularly.

She has no visible cuts or injuries, but we are still scheduling an appt. with the vet tomorrow for Friday. What I'm trying to figure out is how to get the weight back on her. She is an indoor/outdoor cat (she literally screams and climbs the window screens trying to get out) but we are going to try to keep her in for as long as possible.

 

[sourland]

I have been adopted by a FERAL cat (as in more wild than the wild critters that inhabit my backyard). She comes and goes in intervals. Generally she will leave if there are coyotes in the area. She comes back when the coast is clear and eats like a glutton until she is back in shape. She must be a trap neuter release animal because she has never had kittens. (She's been around for 3 years,) She will not enter a box trap - I know that she is female because she's a calico.

 

[Kaitie09]

I wonder if she did know there was a coyote in the area and that is why she took off. She has alwasy gone on "adventures" but no more than a couple days at a time. All 8 of our other cats stayed around during the time she was gone though...so I don't know.

 

[boochaces]

congrats on getting her back <3