Posted on 05/24/2019 6:20:09 AM PDT by vannrox
TOKYO
We all know that cats love to look down on their human owners with disdain, but we never think they’re actually going to turn their tails up on us and leave, especially when we hold all the bargaining chips as their ever-loving carers who lavish them with pats, warmth, and never-ending bowls of food and water.
Still, despite all our love and affection, there are felines who are desperate to get out there and explore, and with little regard for the feelings of humans, they can be gone for hours, days, or weeks, without even stopping to consider the worry and concern they’re creating back home.
That’s what happened to Japanese Twitter user @charlie0816 recently, when their beloved cat escaped and didn’t return home for two days. However, this story has a happy ending, thanks to the use of an unusual method found on Twitter, which @charlie0816 now wants to share with pet owners around the world.
“My cat escaped two days ago and didn’t return, but somebody on Twitter said, ‘Talking to cats in the neighborhood and saying to them, ‘If you see my cat, please tell it to come home’ is an effective technique.’ So last night, I went to the local convenience store and gave it a try by speaking to the stray cats there, and then this morning our cat returned to the front of our house. Um…is it seriously this effective?”
Skeptics might be quick to jump to conclusions, pointing out that there could be any number of reasons explaining why the cat returned home, and that the timing was just sheer coincidence.
However, what surprised everyone was the number of responses from other people who said they had similar results with their own lost pets after speaking to stray animals in the area, leaving us wondering if this method might really just work.
“My mother did the same thing for a child who lost their cat after just two days of having it. She told the strays the story and the cat returned the next day!”
“I went looking for my cat with a tin of cat food and when a stray crossed my path, I fed and spoke to it and my cat returned within the hour.”
“When I lost my cat, one of the strays passed our house so I asked it if it knew where my cat was. It meowed and then walked slowly towards the storehouse and meowed in front of it. Then I heard my cat meowing back from inside!”
“Our cat disappeared on the day we moved into our new place and was missing for a week. I asked a stray for its help and the next day the stray came back with my cat. I was dumbfounded!”
”Our dog disappeared so I asked a pet cat to help find it, and then a few minutes later it came back with our dog. I was freaked out and impressed at the same time!”
These were just a small sample of dozens of testimonies attesting to the effectiveness of talking to cats when searching for lost animals. Could it really be just a coincidence in all these cases? Or do pets only seek to return when they fear they might be losing their human servants to feline competition in the neighborhood?
We may never get the answers to these mysteries, but if you do find yourself looking for a lost animal in future, this might just be a method worth trying out. After all, cats do seem to know – and see – a lot more than we do, and sometimes when we talk to them they even talk back, proving that they really can understand our verbal cues!
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Does it really surprise anyone that a feline might have jealous tendencies?
LOL.
And how many times did it not work?
We know that our cats do not understand what we say. If they did, I think they would escape and never come back. The number of times I’ve called my polydactyl a mutant would make him never want to see me again if he knew. We took a cat to the vet to be shot a couple of days ago...
Perhaps wandering about talking to strays leaves a scent trail that helps the lost pet find its way back.
They are all of one mind...........................
This is sort of like burying a statue of St. Joseph in the yard when you’re trying to sell your home. The home is sold soon after.
It may be that by the time you’re ready to bury a statue or talk to neighborhood feral cats you’ll try just about anything and sometimes it works.
Do you have to speak to the stray cats in Japanese?
Cats are descended from space aliens whose ancestors were stranded here thousands of years ago. They understand what we say but just have selective give a hoot about it.
I’d like to know if the cats in question had been “altered.” Unneutered cats can be gone for a week on a pleasure spree.
In my neighborhood, you may have to ask the coyotes.
Well, this proves the Japanese can be almost as stupid as Americans.
Idiots confusing coincidence with cause and effect - no wonder so many people believe the globull warming hoax.
What is really happening here is that the stray alley cats are contacting the missing cat and telling it that the master is losing it, talking to them like they could understand or something. So, based on that they feel that the master is about to lose it and stroke out.
So, they let the missing cat know about it, and that they expect to be invited over for dinner when the owner passes out and dies.
Cats are pretty vicious like that.
My cat definitely understands me. She just doesn’t care.
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