Thanks for your kind words.....I don't remember being this upset when Mopsy (then quite old, he was 13) went AWOL, maybe because he'd done it before and I didn't worry as much. Of course I was distraught when Tinker was knocked down, but I at least had closure - he wasn't coming home.
This is just dreadful.....Smudge has never done this before, it's so unlike him! He was always in and out of the house several times a day.....for his four and a half years. You know I feel I have jinxed him - on the Monday night before he went missing, I'd been looking all over for a video I had made of a baby Tinker chasing a screwed up piece of paper - when I found it I posted it to FB and one of the comments I made was that Smudge was gorgeous, but he wasn't Tinker. I love Smudge to pieces, and I feel as though he somehow saw my comment and decided his time with me was over......I know I'm silly to think this but I can't help it.
Sorry x