Can Anyone Please Help Me in Some Way ?

I have just returned home from holiday at Haven in Caister. I had taken my cat Deaken also who managed to get out of the caravan on Tuesday night 2nd August. This was absolutely devastating. Deaken is a very special indoor cat, now three years old. He doesn’t have the face of an average cat, much smaller, shaped differently. With beautiful long black glossy fur and bushy tail. He was born brain damaged and thus has developed conditions because of this. He has endured numerous tests and operations and always pulled through. He has cataracts in both eyes, he can barely see. But he knew his way around home, occasionally bumping into things. He has a tendency to also have seizures occasionally depending on his surroundings, we had recently established that these mostly happen when he is in the dark at night, we had been leaving a light on for the last few weeks, it was great that he hadn’t had any seizures, he does need daily medication for this.

But he is such a wonderful cat. The way he shows his love, the way he talks back when you speak to him, the nudges he gives you while your sleeping. The way he climbs in bed, putting his head on the pillow and looking as if he just pulled the blanket over him, the way he rolls over, sleeps on his back, comes over for ‘bum rubs’, the way he waits at night for the TV to be turned off, for you to pick him up to reach the static which he tries to eat. He was always by my side wherever I went. Home isn’t home without him.

For three weeks we searched throughout the day and night, no sleep, unable to eat, just constant tears, pain and heartache. He must be out there somewhere and I cant help feeling I haven’t made people realise how special he is in the search to find him. Despite placing posters all around the site, some site staff searching also throughout the day and night, and some fantastic other guests giving me hope also looking around the site, but very few sightings usually of stray cats within the area. One sighting we had we rushed to the area, almost caught him, he was so distressed he ran. He will not survive as a stray cat and this is what is breaking my heart.

On the Saturday following his disappearance, we had no choice but to return home, that night I received a call from a lady called Fiona, I had never met her before, but I had the pleasure of meeting her two children and nephew whilst searching for Deaken that week. She was so sure she could see Deaken in a bush, but unable to reach as it was so dark. I knew at that point I had to return to the site. She offered to let me stay in her caravan. I have never met such a genuine and true person, she will now be my friend for life after what she has done. I never expected I would still be there two weeks after arriving on the Sunday after he went missing. Three weeks of non-stop searching. It was time to go home, I had to work. Fiona has continued to help, setting up the trap for me, but to no avail. The one really positive sighting was in the sites maintenance yard on the Sunday after I had returned home, but yet she has still been unable to trap him. There are so many stray cats on the site, which I had found out tend to be fed and cared for by a lady who lives just off the site. I think I must have been called out to all these stray cats, but what never seemed to be Deaken. I contacted the local newspaper who did a lovely article with a picture, this would hopefully touch the hearts of local residents should he wander from the site. The site has new holidaymakers arriving weekly so I can understand that they wouldn’t be prepared to help find my cat, but some did, some given up the time, to help look, ring me with sightings, and they have kept in contact to be updated on progress.

I will be returning to the site this week for a short visit, to put up new posters, which include a picture of him, maybe the fact that they look more professional and include the picture, then they would stop taking them down. We must have gone through over 200 posters, constantly replacing them. I have also bought a second cat trap, this would hopefully increase the chances of finding him. I am so frustrated and worried, once I have then returned home, also my new friend Fiona will be returning home on Saturday, then the search for him will stop, there will no one I can truly trust and rely on to set up the traps, or to respond to any calls I receive of sightings. It is now approaching four weeks since he went missing. I am heartbroken and so concerned that I let my little fluffy boy down, it’s the not knowing that is so heartbreaking. He has to be somewhere.

The address of the Haven site is as follows:
Caister Holiday Park Caister-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 5NQ
Tel: 01493 728 931

I don’t know which way to turn next; I live 130 miles away, in Milton Keynes, Please Help.