>>Slings, who has the Kitty Ping list?
Asking for help from the kitty ping list....
Any particular sounds she is used to hearing that she may come to?
Check with the neighbors. Look in sheds and out buildings. Mine was found in a storage building and the ending was good.
So sorry about LT (one of ours was named LC for “Little Cat”).
Someone left our sliding glass door ajar during the day and Tiger, our beautiful rescue cat escaped. We never found him, unfortunately and I prayed that he found a good home with people who loved him because he was a wonderful wonderful cat and great companion.
Another cat “Jesse” hid for 2 days when someone tried to break into our home — she finally appeared as if nothing happened.
I truly hope you find LT and I will think of him tonight when I feed “Ghostie” — a stray who showed up in the yard 10 years ago and never left.
Prayers.
Has she been chipped or does she wear a collar?
I empathize with you fully; I lost a cat several months ago and was frantic to find her - posted “lost cat” posters around the neighborhood and contacted neighbors about her. She did come back a week later, chewed on a little (friends thought it was from the talons from a bird of prey) but okay.
I’ve learned since that cats will get spooked and hide for days on end, often within a hundred feet of their home, until hunger or thirst drive them back home. Don’t worry, this could apply to your beautiful kitty.
Ping this over.
Prayers, edpc! I truly hope your kitty cat finds her way back home.
Prayers. Don’t give up. Our Calico got out of the house and showed up 7 days later in our backyard hungry and happy to be home.
Prayers for a safe return. If she has a calm favorite pet companion, dog or cat, you might take it around the neighborhood and see if she comes out.
Check your local Humane Society and or pound. I had an incident 2 years ago with my cat who we never let out. He escaped while I was weather stripping a door and never came back that day. I checked all my neighbors Facebook pages who I am not friends with and low and behold there was my cat on one of them. I reported it to the local Humane Society and the next day the neighbor reported finding the cat and then promptly returned it to me.
We had one stuck between a neighbor’s storm and front door while they were away a few days and came home when they did.
I had a girlfriend who stood outside screaming “Tiger” like a banshee for an hour and it worked. That was 27 years ago, I’ll never forget it.
Prayers for the safe return of your cat.
Prayers for LT’s safe return.
Prayers up for LT’s safe return. She’s a beauty.
Over the past 10 years or so, I have actually become an expert on missing escaped cats. Last year I told my daughter how to find her missing cat in Las Vegas (I live in another state).
She told me about his escape 6 weeks earlier and she got her kitty back 4 days later following my advice.
1) Cats rarely wander far (start at 250 ft from home and add 50 feet for every week since loss).
2) They will find somewhere to hide and will sleep all day. You can only find them at night.
3) Put out water and food for them. It will slow down their wandering.
4) Don’t even bother looking in the daytime. They have changed to entirely nocturnal and maybe a little dusk or dawn routine.
5) If you have a web cam. Video record the food and water bowl area with time stamps enabled.
6) when you know what time they visit the food each night you can then be up and get them back, but coax them back, don’t chase them, they are faster than you.
My daughter’s cat visited the food between 2:30 and 3:30 am each night. She coaxed him back with a pint tub of freshly opened dried catnip.
I have given this advice to 11 people and every one has successfully gotten their kitty back, with one exception where the kitty was at the pound, but they got that one back too.
Also, don’t expect the pound or animal shelter to find your cat, to them a cat is a cat, you have to go there and look yourself.
Good luck with your hunt.
Jack
I agree with checking and posting on Craigslist, check Facebook and make a picture that can be shared around, check on Petfinder.com too. Let the local pet rescues in your area know as well as the animal shelter.
My baby (cat) disappeared once. I did all of those things and would walk around calling for her. One night I heard her calling back. I kept calling to find her and another cat showed up meowing instead. What I didn't know then was that my cat was answering too, I was just thrown off by the other cat. I found her the next evening in the same area behind a fence in the neighbors backyard who had been out of town. I cried tears of relief for hours and hours.
Will pray, God loves them even more than we do!
One night, while out in the backyard with my flashlight, I shined the light near a tree and saw two glowing eyes staring at me. After calling her cat by name I walked towards it...only to find out it was a skunk...did a 180, and proceeded to run like a bat out'a...
Long story short, the lady left her door open and one night the cat just came strolling in. She said it looked like it might have been in a fight, lost a few pounds, but otherwise was fine.
Indoor cats(especially)get a need for adventure, but once out in the elements usually find...there's no place like home. In this case the owner and I came to the conclusion that the cat probably didn't wander that far from home, but instead found a safe place to hideout for a while.
Here's to hoping that's the case for your adventurer as well.