No, it's not our Thomas. After almost a week we managed to catch the cat we really believed was him. But when we took it to the vet, our hopes were shattered because this cat hadn't got any id chip between its shoulders. The vet also said that it's very well possible that a cat's fur becomes a lot clearer in the dare circumstances that we found it in, but not its muzzle. And since our Thomas definitely had a black face and this one was grey... No, it wasn't to be...
Were we blinded by hope and despair? Didn't we see the obvious signs such as its different gaze or its different meow? The absence of fluffy points of hair on its ears? The fact that this cat was so wild and didn't recognise the name "Thomas" at all? Perhaps... But you'll certainly agree that it was a terrible coincidence. According to the people in the village, this cat turned up two months ago, exactly when our Thomas disappeared. It also resembled our Thomas so very much, with its "lion collar", yellow eyes and fluffy tail... also its posture was very much like the typical Norwegian Forest cat, with the unmistakable sharp curve in its back when it was sitting upright. Who would believe that here in the Italian "outback" there would be two cats so very much alike? We certainly didn't believe so...
Now we've still got one little sparkle of hope left. A lady told us that it's in fact possible that there were two similar cats around, one of which actually belongs to a man who recently moved to this village. When this lady accidentally saw the cat we believed to be Thomas, she asked this man whether his cat hadn't escaped, but he replied: "No, no, mine's right here". So, are there two of them? Could it be possible that this man threw his own cat out on the street and got our Thomas instead, just because Thomas looks so much more handsome and is so much friendlier and good-humoured? Believe me, we're going to find out! What luck that Thomas indeed has the microchip so we can actually prove he's ours... That is, if he's with that man indeed...
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