Cat Ran Away To Die. It isn’t your fault, any more than it is the driver of the car who hit him. Due to extremely acute hearing, both cats and dogs tend to be naturally terrified of loud noises such as thunder, fireworks, gunshots, or even a car backfiring.
My other cat, midnight (jc's twin sister), would have gone away to die too, but she was just too sick and too weak to leave. I had a diabetic cat, about 2 years who was dieing of renal failure and wandered off. Use a baby monitor on your porch:
In some cases, however, a cat or dog can take off in search of safety if there is a perceived threat in your environment.
A veterinary clinic should have a scanner to scan lost cats and return them to their own after they ran away. When animals get sick, really sick, they run away to quiet places where they think they can just have a nap and get better. Posted by kldickson at 8:38 am on june 3, 2009 [2 favorites] She disappeared once when we moved to a small town for the summer and we found her.