the mystery still surrounds that day in which brownie disappeared and no full investigation about the events before and after the cat's vanishing has been conducted. What is sure as that there is still a lot of unanswered questions and the most common explanation of the cats disappearance has been up until now uncritically accepted. That the cat was killed and eaten by raccoons or coyotes was the most plausible explanation, but that was before I started to look at all the facts for what they were.
Fact 1:
1. Brownie had been left outside overnight many times, and raccoons and coyotes are common in the area--why was Brownie able to avoid such a death for so long? Brownie did not have claws, as we all know, but she was swift and has instincts superior to most cats (unsupported claim, but from an expert opinion). So what if the truth is that she did not get killed in this way? What might have really happened to brownie?
Sorted in order of plausibility
1. Neighbor's took brownie in and made in their own. They were very fond of brownie and had put out cat food for him before. Maybe one of their young daughter's grew attached to brownie, threw a tantrum, and the parents caved in to make it her own.
2. Brownie wondered off and became a stray cat. You see others stray cats walking around yards in neighborhoods, country homes, and farms. Its possible brownie just followed another cat, or wondered off and became lost, or just came to a point where it for some reason switched territories. Its more likely that this happened since in the summer brownie didn't have the cold to cause him to want to be indoors.
3. Brownie was hit by a neighbor's car. They disposed of the cat and decided not to tell us about the incident.
4. Conner kicked a soccer ball at the net when brownie was in the area. The ball hit brownie and crushed its head against the poll with enough force that brownie died. Conner buried brownie like bugs bunny in the woods.
5. Brownie is in the chimney
6. Eric gave brownie to jess for a birthday present so she had a cat in duluth, the cat may have been given away or could be in pennsylvania.
7. Someone sat on brownie's head on accident and crushed it.
8. Brownie got sucked into the vacuum.
9. The predator came and killed it
10. The cat got tangled graduation balloons bit through the the connection to the chair trying to get free and floated away, freezing to death as they approached the upper atmosphere.
11. Got run over by the lawnmower.
12. Brownie was a transformer, and turned into its flying version and returned to its home planet.