Posted on 12/03/2012 9:16:02 AM PST by edpc
One of our cats (LT - short for Little Thing) got out the other night while taking out the dogs. She is a very special cat and we have spent a lot of time trying to find her. Please pray for her safe return.
If those on the kitty ping list have any suggestions that may lead her back home, I would appreciate it. We leave the garage door slightly up at night with food hoping she'll find her way.
Picture below.
Hopefully, your kitty will wander home when the tummy starts to rumble...
Prayers for LT’s safe return.
Prayers up for LT’s safe return. She’s a beauty.
good point sometimes they go in someones garage and get locked in.
My GF’s did that and it was found too long after.
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!
There is fox living in my neighborhood. The drought has forced animals into town, a fox might well go after a cat.
Did you go into the attic lately?
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.
My prayers are up my friend.
LLS
Prayers that your cat comes home safe and sound.
Wow, she’s a beautiful cat, I hope she returns home soon.....
LT might be up a tree and too afraid to meow in answer to your calls. Look up!
I recovered our lost, timid, indoor Calico by setting a humane trap out at dusk, using her regular canned food as bait. She turned up very quickly. DO NOT leave the trap unattended for more than an hour or two. A frightened animal may crush teeth trying to escape!
On my flyers, I offered a reward for her return or info leading to her return. Someone called me having seen her and that’s how I knew where to set the trap. She was less than a minute’s walk from our backdoor. LT may be VERY close to home.
Sometimes rescue groups will let you borrow a trap or two. Farm supply places sell them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ6_iBcvghI
I can’t begin to tell you how many times one of another of our cats has disappeared. After rigorously searching the house over and over with no results, the darn cat just walked into the room as though nothing had happened. SO, do you have a pool table? One of my cats used to climb down in a corner hole out of sight and take a long nap. Another one caused us to search the neighborhood including my son going up and down a long block in the dark and climbing behind shrubbery to search. (Amazingly, nobody called the police and reported a suspicious person.) Finally, I did still another check of the inside of the house, and discovered our cat in my extra large linen closed perched way down behind a pile of towels. She was annoyed that I woke her up.
Don’t give up.
I don't trust either one of them so check with them several times a day......
A few years ago a lost standard poodle ended up at my house so I called the local animal shelter. The A'holes wouldn't give me the number of the people who lost it and they wouldn't call them to tell them I had the dog. They said they had to wait till the people called them again which they did a couple hours later while on the road looking for the dog
Also a few years ago, there was a feel good story about two fishermen who rescued a golden retriever in lake St. Clair and turned it over to the humane society.
A few days later the reporter followed up on the previous story and discovered the humane society had put the animal down because they said it was sick...........BS!
My understanding is that cats usually don't stray very far , but they are stealthy little things, making them hard to find. My cats 3 week adventure 2 blocks away, proved that theory.
Wow. The Humane society where I lived provided all information for me. Gave me the family’s name and number even though I knew who they were. They are also a no kill shelter. I guess it just depends where you live and whose running the organization.
That happened to my sister-in-law a couple of weeks ago. Although they looked all over the property for her, they couldn’t find her, but a day later, they found her under a bush near the backdoor she escaped from.
Praying for LT. Maybe she is hiding in a cabinet, closet; etc somewhere in the house. I used to think one of my cats got out; but alway found them somewhere in the house or around the house. If out, some cats like to stay in the bushes near the house; or climb something. Maybe this will help. They don’t always come when called either. Just keep trying and check with all the shelters and neighbors.
LOL! That might have been me too a couple years ago. I had a guy over to clean out my air ducts and had to leave door to the garage open for his aparatus. Normally my cat hides under the bed but when the guy went in their with his air hose, I saw my cat fly out of there. When the guy left, I searched the entire house and couldn't find the cat.
So I started walking around the small neighborhood for an hour rattling her food dish like a fool. No luck. So, I went out on the back deck and continued to call her. Finally I gave up and turned around to go back inside and there she was, standing on the other side of the screen door looking out at the fool on the back deck calling her name.
Evidently she found another secret hiding spot in the house where I couldn't find her.......LOL!
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