I seem to have lost my pet :(

Got a nice necro/ranger thing goin

got my stalker cat up to like level 8, at that time he was alive

finished a mission and traveled back to town (Sadericla Sanitarium or whatever), got my reward and started the Oberon mission.

I leave town and my cat is gone, just, gone

trying to ressurect him just tells me "pet not in range"

ive ran various distances hoping to get within range, thinking maybe he just did die somehow and i didnt notice...no luck with that

so how the **** do i get a pet i worked hard to level up, back?

You probably did not equip the charm animal skill. it states something like "yuor pet will travel with you whenever you have charm animal eqipped" put back Charm Animal and he should reappear when you next leave town

did you unequip charm animal? the pet will only out with you if that skill is equipped