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I had a cat, she was a year old.
I was up late one night doing stuff and she was in my face all the time. She’d just intently stare at me, where ever I turned, there she was, just staring. It was a bit creepy. By 2:30 am, I realized there was no cat food in the house. Off to the all night convenience store I drive with my dog in the back seat. On the ride back home, it was foggy. What a perfect time to figure out how the fog lights work in the car. So I’m playing with the lights turning them on and off when I see a small black shadow cross the road going from the left side to the center in front of me. I slow down. A few miles later I finally turn unto my road, and as I’m backing into my driveway, I see a small fiery “thing” crossing the road from the center to the left side. It was about a hundred feet away, at the edge of my property. As I witness this, without thinking, I say to my dog, “I wonder why Maya is not coming home”. Thought nothing more of that.

I put some cat food in Maya’s bowl and went to sleep.
The next day, I noticed the cat food was untouched. I started calling her and then went searching for her. I found her body exactly across the street where I had seen the fiery “thing”

I always wondered if that was her spirit.
Also, I couldn’t figure out how she got out of the house.

Our cat that my wife had before we married finally passed away at an old age. We gathered the kids around and buried it out in the backyard with a little service. I bet it wasn’t more than a week later I saw a black cat in our yard back by the little burial.

Never had a cat back in the fenced yard before (12 years). Raccoons and oppusums and squirrels, but never a cat. I showed my wife and she went out and the cat jumped up the fence and ran away. A few days later it was in the front yard with my wife watching the kids. My wife got some milk. It drank it after they all left.

After about a week of that the cat adopted us. 10 years later have never seen another cat in our backyard!