UPDATE I may have spotted Belladonna in my kitnapper's window yesterday
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I was walking the dogs. I saw a cat looking out the window. I tried to get a good look, but it left the window just as I was close enough. However, I could see that it is has a large patch on it's right side. Through the screen and from the distance, I could only see lighter grey/darker grey. But I don't remember her having a patchy or calico cat.
She used to have 2 cats. This spring one of them started sitting in the window crying really loudly every day. Like I kept wandering around looking for a cat in my pasture.
Then it stopped when the weather got super hot (I think they had a/c with windows closed). Now it's cool and the windows are open again, but the cat hasn't resumed crying in the window. And it hadn't cried at all last year. I'm wondering now if they lost one of their 2 cats, and if Bella went out wandering in the nicer weather, they invited her in and kitnapped her again. 
I'm going to try to get a closer look after work tonight. In the dark, if they have lights on, I may be able to see if she's there.
My dog I hate my neighbors!
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She spent 3 months happily living in my barn. Was kitnapped (it turned out by a neighbor that lived "kitty-corner" ) that March. They kept her for 5 months, then moved away and dumped her. I saw her on their front stoop a week later. Met with the new people who said she walked in while they were moving in -- like she owned the place. So they were feeding her. They told me they'd keep an eye out and would catch her and bring her over, since she hung around there all the time now. They never did.
Last March, almost to the day after she vanished, I came home from work and saw her huddled in the driveway across the street directly across from my drive. Brought her home, got her vetted, all shots and dewormed. Saw the neighbors, who told me that she'd spent the winter under their trailer. They said they "felt sorry for her." They had never bothered to tell me, even though they *knew* I was looking for her.
She was a bag of bones and nervous wreck, but fattened up and calmed down quickly. Has been living happily out of my barn ever since. Follows my horse and I up to the riding pasture, and runs and plays while we're there. Follows us back to the barn when we're done. Occasionally is late to a meal, but until a week ago, never missed a meal. She's been missing now for over a week -- ever since the heat/humidity let go and the nights started getting cool. The baby animals are leaving the nest this time of year, so she may have reverted to feral. Or she may have wandered over to the kitty-corner neighbors and been kitnapped again.
Last time I walked around calling for her and posted signs every where. This time I'm not bothering. Everybody knows where she belongs. When push comes to shove, she knows where her home base is.
She was originally feral and may have gone off hunting and decided
