LOST CAT - PEMBROKE, NC
Hello all,
different post than normal.
My beloved cat, Salem, got scared and slipped her harness February 7th, 2023, at roughly 10:30 pm - 11 pm, in Pembroke, NC.
As of Feb 10th, Salem is still missing.
I live at some of the apartments out there, which is around where she escaped.
Salem is very skittish and shy, and is an indoor only cat. She has never been on her own before and I am incredibly worried about her. I have been doing everything that I can think of to try and get her back or get people on the lookout for her.
While I know this is mostly focused on the Pembroke Town/Robeson County area of NC, you never know who lives where when they follow you.
She is a calico/tabby mix (brown-grey/white/orange), medium/long hair. She has yellow-green eyes. She is roughly 10lbs. And she is almost 2 years old. She is microchipped.
I have alerted every shelter, animal control, vet, facebook page, etc, within the next 50 miles. And that isn't a joke - one place is in the next state. I have contacted every apartment complex. I even have an Instagram ad running about her within a 10 mile radius (it would not let me do more). Tomorrow (02/10) I am printing flyers and putting them up. I have her litter box, dry food, wet food, fresh water and her mat outside. I have my door wide open. And I have been physically walking and calling for her in the area.
Any and all tips are being taken at this time, either message me here or at the number listed on her Missing picture. Thank you.
There is one site I posted this too that has something called Lost pet Cards (24PetConnect). In which they get the mailing addresses for the area, print little cards, and expedite them to everyone in the vicinity. Their smallest amount is 500 cards, and while costly, it would help get the word out because this is a very dispersed and secluded little town. So paypal and GoFundMe are linked - anything helps.
Lost Pet Postcard Fundraiser!! ($690/$760 for 1,000 cards)
We are currently just $70 away from the goal and then I can order the cards.
PayPal (for those that prefer it).
Any and all help is appreciated. I just want my beanie-baby safe here at home. She is my world, and not having her here is tearing me up. I'm wearing myself thin searching for her.
Update:
Be and one of my friends have been out for the last 8 hours handing out missing pets flyers to every business in town. (We didn't know it would take that long for just them)
Our last stop was supposed to be the food lion she went running to, but I saw some of the workers outside the auto shop just next to it and went over.
The guy that came over actually recognized her from the pictures immediately!! He doesn't remember if it was yesterday or the day before, but he saw her out behind the shop during the day. That's something! That's the first lead I've gotten on her! The first person to see her last the night she escaped! And he's 100% sure it was her.
I've got an Instagram ad running for the next week within a 10 mile radius and one girl saw it and told me about a feral colony nearby with almost 20 cats. So if Salem decide to start making friends (she is spayed) but I can go check after the storm tomorrow to.
Also a guy I stopped earlier to ask works for a local pet search group - they go out at night and in the evening. He took her picture and they're gonna be looking for her too!
It's something though! It's just a little something but good the hope it's given me.
Salem isn't home yet, but I have how she will be soon. Either from be dragging her back, or her finding her way home.
By the way, if you can donate, I still do need that last $70 to order those cards. I'm not pressuring, but yeah that number is still where it's at. I just need that last little bit.
100s go a lot faster than I realized they would, not gonna lie.
