lost cat any tips

[anonymous-user]

Let the cat out at 20:30 last night and started calling on the hour from 22:00 until 02am, then this morning, no answer.

The cat is a year old, goes in and out a lot. I live in rural location minimal traffic and lots of fields. She is a bit scaty, just not sure how to start. She is a good tree climber but as a kitten did get her stuck once in a chair which requiring sawing to release.

edit to add, her mum disappeared 4 weeks after birth as well as 1 sibling, and dad was supposed to have been a barn cat.

Edited by The Spruce goose on Saturday 30th May 11:43

[bexVN]

Is she spayed? Just checking in case a reason for her being still out.

Any sheds/ greenhouses she could have got stuck in?

Do you have neighbours to check with?

Strong flavour food eg tin tuna take out and tap sometimes works.

I hope she turns up soon.

[anonymous-user]

yes sprayed not a fan of fish but will put some food out.

[Jasandjules]

Ask the neighbours to check their sheds/garages. Apart from that, weather is nice, so might just be out hunting..

[steve2]

our ginger kitten went missing for two weeks in March and we were out every night looking and putting up notices, also put details on Facebook lost pet pages and contacted local vets.
One morning looked out the back door and there he was waiting to come in !!
He is also a year old so just keep looking and hopefully he will return soon

[Silverage]

My wife has two Bengal cats. In the last fortnight, first one and then the other went walkabout for 6 and 5 days respectively. In both cases we had multiple walks round the village and surrounding fields, posters and fliers, the whole works. In both cases each cat just turned up back at the house again pretty dirty and a bit thinner, just like they'd chosen to live rough for a few days. Neither had done anything like this in the previous 18 months she has had them.

[HOGEPH]

As above, check neighbours sheds, they are usually closer than you think.

[ali_kat]

Do you still have a litter tray? If so put it out side, she'll smell home

Hang her bedding outside & empty your Hoover bag outside

Shout late at night/early am your voice & hers will travel further

Ask your neighbours if you can look in sheds/garages as she may hide from them

[anonymous-user]

Done the litter tray and bedding and will have another go later o shout, but i watched her try to 'attack' a horse that lives in the field behind, so my gut is a fox or badger has killed her as that is her nature to 'play' with animals. She is a pretty small cat.

[ali_kat]

My small cat used to play with the foxes & badgers we had locally.

They should be fine; rural foxes are generally shy of cats - unless they feel their Cubs are threatened... Or are starving (rural foxes rarely are)

[bexVN]

Have you phoned your vets to report her missing? Is she chipped?

I agree with Ali re the fox/badger. Most animals have a degree of self preservation so won't seek to play with something that could potentially eat them (always exceptions I know) cats attacked by foxes tends to be urban areas, I hope that isn't it all the same.

It is still early days so stay hopeful for now.

Edited by bexVN on Saturday 30th May 22:11

[anonymous-user]

no chip and tag had come off was getting a new one today so not good on that front. Will just ride the time out hopefully turns up.

[bexVN]

The Spruce goose said:

no chip and tag had come off was getting a new one today so not good on that front. Will just ride the time out hopefully turns up.

Ah, was asking because if at a vets they should phone you if she was chipped, definitely get in touch with local vets to report her if you haven't already and signs up in.local shops maybe.

[Mandat]

Sorry to hear about your lost cat.

Have you thought about making a "lost cat" poster to hang up in the neighbourhood?

This link has some useful tips.

[anonymous-user]

well 3 days and after looking today gave another shout and she turned up on the door. not too skinny or hungry and not bad nick. i guess she got lost or didn't want to come back.

5 mins later she is wanting to go back out in the rain..

thanks for help i am sure will happen again.

[ali_kat]

[bexVN]

My Maine Coon would regularly disappear for 24hrs a time, once 48hrs, made me sweat each time!!

It was an rta that curbed her wanderings in the end (didn't die but she nearly did!)!

[shep1001]

The Spruce goose said:

well 3 days and after looking today gave another shout and she turned up on the door. not too skinny or hungry and not bad nick. i guess she got lost or didn't want to come back.

5 mins later she is wanting to go back out in the rain..

thanks for help i am sure will happen again.

Get a cat tracker. Mrs used to worry when Millie went wandering. Works with google maps so you can go find them!

[robbocop33]

shep1001 said:

Get a cat tracker. Mrs used to worry when Millie went wandering. Works with google maps so you can go find them!

Never knew about trackers.Ive always wanted to stick one on a cat just for the hell of it to see were they go,especially my ginger tom.The times ive been driving along a far away street and glimpsing a ginger cat saying,"Oh,look,that looks like...oh wait?,it is!!"Love to know what the little sod gets up to.

[shep1001]

robbocop33 said:

Never knew about trackers.Ive always wanted to stick one on a cat just for the hell of it to see were they go,especially my ginger tom.The times ive been driving along a far away street and glimpsing a ginger cat saying,"Oh,look,that looks like...oh wait?,it is!!"Love to know what the little sod gets up to.

99% of the time it's the novelty factor of looking where they have been, it logs at set intervals over a few hours. Millie's is quite interesting but Moglet's is essentially up the garden for a dump, over the fence & under the bush for a kip.


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