Hi Kite,
Here is the chart:
The first thing that interested me about this is that Jupiter retrograde, the cat's significator, is in the 1st house, which represents you. At the beginning of Frawley's book, 'The Horary Textbook', he gives an example of a horary he cast to inquire as to where his missing cat was. The cat was shown by Jupiter retrograde, and simply by the fact that the cat was shown by a retrograde planet, was sufficient indication to Frawley that this meant that the cat would return, and so it did. I am especially intrigued that the retrograde planet is in the 1st house, showing that the cat will return to
you.
I decided to get my nose in Frawleys book to see how he would go about trying to identify the whereabouts of things which have gone missing and whether they will be returned.
Frawley says that 'the strongest testimony of recovery is an applying aspect between the object and the querent'. In this case, Venus (you) applies an aspect to Jupiter retrograde (the cat), which, coupled with the fact that the cat's significator is retrograde in the 1st house, showing the cat returning to you, may be another testimony that you may in fact be reunited with your cat.
According to these indications, I wouldn't worry too much about the cat. It will probably come back home.
Cats are very independant and not the most faithful of creatures. It might be getting food and a bowl of milk somewhere else by someone who may have presumed it was a stray.
I think, only according to the chart, that it will come back. Don't worry too much about it. If the cat had been killed by a coyote then I don't thing that the chart would have the cat's significator retrograde in the 1st house, telling us that it is to return to you, nor have your significator applying an aspect with the cat's, showing the actual opportunity for you to be reunited. The aspect is a square, and so difficult, so perhaps there will somehow be difficult circumstances arising in getting back the cat in some way, but I think that it will come back, according to the chart.
Hopefully it will.
Keep us informed as to happens.
Draco