[Noah930]

This has me scratching my head. We used to have two cats (brothers from the same litter). They were indoor-outdoor cats. A few months ago (over July 4th holiday weekend) we think one cat got eaten by a coyote. So we've kept the other cat inside since then. He's slipped out a couple times, but we have always managed to grab him within a few feet of the door and being him back in. Realistically, he has not roamed the neighborhood in 4 months. We even took off his collar/tag because he no longer roamed outdoors.

This morning he slipped out the front door when I took the dog out for a walk. He was out a total of maybe 2 hours max. He never goes far--just along our one block. I watched him go from front yard to front yard for about 20 minutes. Heck, once I finished walking the dog, I still saw him hanging out in our front yard.

Here's where it gets weird. I gave up trying to catch the cat and went outside about 30-45 minutes later. I called the cat and he came trotting right up to me on the front porch. When I picked him up, he had a brand new collar on him, with a name tag! On the tag was professionally etched his name (the name we gave him) and a phone number (not ours!).

Who puts a collar and name tag (with the right name) for a pet that's not theirs?! And then puts their phone number on the tag? Has this person had this tag printed up and ready to go for months? No way they had the time to run out to Petco at 9 am on a Sunday morning to do this. Or do they have some pet name tag engraver machine in their garage at home?

I called the number on the tag and just got voicemail ("Hi, this is Abby. Please leave your number. Thanks.")