The phrase "a lost cat" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a cat that has wandered away from its home or owner and cannot be found.
Example: "We put up posters around the neighborhood to help find a lost cat."
Alternatives: "an missing cat" or "a stray cat."
Geeky cartoon strips abound, along with a notice for a lost cat.
In the storm's onset, the young daughter, Rose, wanders off amid the clattering palm trees, in search of a lost cat.
The controversial ruler of Chechnya, Kremlin-backed Ramzan Kadyrov, has engaged John Oliver in an unlikely online spat after the British comedian mocked the hardman leader for posting an online appeal about a lost cat.
"Stupidity, stupidity and more stupidity," Ms. Lillis said, between puffs of a Merit Ultra Lights cigarette as she rolled through East Hampton in her silver 1984 Volvo wagon on Wednesday afternoon, on the way to post fliers for a lost cat.
I kept waiting to run into my family posting flyers of me on the boardwalk — my mom, the tallest blackest chestiest thing in sight, Oscar looking like the Brown Blob, my tía Rubelka, maybe even my tío if they could get him off the heroin long enough — but the closest I came to any of that was some flyers someone had put up for a lost cat.
Did it run away like a lost cat?
A neighbor recently posted on a neighborhood forum that after several years, her lost cat returned home.
Cats make regular, enigmatic appearances in Murakami's fiction and one reader was keen to know if the author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle might know where her lost cat had got to: "Cats just disappear sometimes.
These websites act as a database for free information, tips, and services to help in your search for your lost cat.
According to the American Humane Association, last year more than seven million dogs and cats went missing; only about 17 percent of lost dogs and 2 percent of lost cats ever find their way back from shelters to their original owners.
He is able, however, to learn to work in a shop producing handcrafted furniture, and when, upon the owner's death, the factory disbands he supplements his government subsidy with a modest-paying sideline in finding lost cats, since along with his disabilities he has gained the rare ability to converse with cats.
