CAT lover Fiona Sharp is appealing for information after several pets have gone missing within sight of her home in Rockwell Green.

Her Bengal cross cat Max disappeared about this time last year and despite an exhaustive search, reward offer and an appeal in the WWN no trace of him was ever found.

Now her five-year-old cat Harry, another Bengal cross – who is microchipped but does not have a collar – has been missing since May 26.

Fiona, who lives in Dobree Park, said: “I went into the local shop a couple of weeks ago and was told that in 2012 there was a dump of dead cats, foxes and rabbits. The cats’ collars had been removed.

“They were found on waste ground at the bottom of Dobree Park. I have had this confirmed by three different people. It set alarm bells ringing when I heard about what they found.”

Fiona, working her way around her own and neighbouring houses, said that Max went missing in May last year, then another cat disappeared in November and one was poisoned about two years ago.

Another disappeared possibly in 2012, Harry last month and a house two doors up lost a Siamese two or three years ago.

Another couple lost a cat the same week as Max and a man she had met from the Greenway Road end of Dobree Park had told her he had lost two cats this year. Fiona added: “That’s quite a few in a very small area.”

Harry is five and looks like a silver tabby, ‘like the Whiskas cat but prettier‚’ said Fiona, who has put up posters in the area appealing for information about his whereabouts.

She said he had disappeared before, for 18 days two years ago, but when he came back his whole behaviour was different in a way which suggested he had been kept in by someone.

“Max went last year and never came back despite everything we did and there was no sighting of him,” Fiona added.

“I can’t believe that no-one could have seen anything and no body was found.

“I have only just got over Max. We got to the point where we thought ‘he’s not coming back, we have to accept that’.

“ Now Harry has gone and we have to go through it all again.”

Fiona said she was planning to contact local PCSO Steve Hill about the disappearances.