New cat, old cat isn't a fan
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We had one that went walkabout. He was chipped as well but the new slaves thought he was stray (not checked the chip) and he did not get on with their cat so they put a cat hut in the garden and fed him. A week later we were walking by looking for him and saw him sun lounging on the lawn. He did recognise us and ran over berating us for leaving him. The new slaves were thankful he was found though.
Then he escaped from a cattery by tearing out the security in the ceiling and making a break for it.
Then he escaped from a cattery by tearing out the security in the ceiling and making a break for it.
Only just found this thread, but very glad you found him.
One of ours went missing for 4 days just after a big thunderstorm. Sod's Law, the tracker battery had given up before I started looking for him, so we had a similar few days to you but eventually we got some local sightings and he eventually turned up in a school nearby.
He still goes a fair way from home but we've got a GPS and RFID tracker on him now and we regularly check them to make sure they're in good working order, so can't do much more than that really.
Our two cats have some pretty bad fights every now and then but the rest of the time the reluctantly tolerate each other. We've just started trying Feliway Friends, which I'd say has helped a bit. The other thing which seems to calm them if they're both in the living room with us is a lavender scented candle.
Oh, and maybe you should get some tea-tree oil on those scratches
One of ours went missing for 4 days just after a big thunderstorm. Sod's Law, the tracker battery had given up before I started looking for him, so we had a similar few days to you but eventually we got some local sightings and he eventually turned up in a school nearby.
He still goes a fair way from home but we've got a GPS and RFID tracker on him now and we regularly check them to make sure they're in good working order, so can't do much more than that really.
Our two cats have some pretty bad fights every now and then but the rest of the time the reluctantly tolerate each other. We've just started trying Feliway Friends, which I'd say has helped a bit. The other thing which seems to calm them if they're both in the living room with us is a lavender scented candle.
Oh, and maybe you should get some tea-tree oil on those scratches
jmorgan said:
We had one that went walkabout. He was chipped as well but the new slaves thought he was stray (not checked the chip) and he did not get on with their cat so they put a cat hut in the garden and fed him. A week later we were walking by looking for him and saw him sun lounging on the lawn. He did recognise us and ran over berating us for leaving him. The new slaves were thankful he was found though.
Then he escaped from a cattery by tearing out the security in the ceiling and making a break for it.
Sounds like he might be "Hulk Cat" when he gets angry? Then he escaped from a cattery by tearing out the security in the ceiling and making a break for it.
That was our concern. He doesn't wear a collar so he could have been taken in by someone as a stray and the only time his chip might have been read was if they took to a vet at some point.
2Btoo said:
TheAngryDog said:
Lol Ali, they bloody hurt I'll tell you that!
Sweet, sweet pain. You didn't mind one bit! ali_kat said:
''Tis but a scratch
Pictures??
Pictures??
FurtiveFreddy said:
Only just found this thread, but very glad you found him.
One of ours went missing for 4 days just after a big thunderstorm. Sod's Law, the tracker battery had given up before I started looking for him, so we had a similar few days to you but eventually we got some local sightings and he eventually turned up in a school nearby.
He still goes a fair way from home but we've got a GPS and RFID tracker on him now and we regularly check them to make sure they're in good working order, so can't do much more than that really.
Our two cats have some pretty bad fights every now and then but the rest of the time the reluctantly tolerate each other. We've just started trying Feliway Friends, which I'd say has helped a bit. The other thing which seems to calm them if they're both in the living room with us is a lavender scented candle.
Oh, and maybe you should get some tea-tree oil on those scratches
Typical! How long do they last for? We have tried the feliway and it hasn't done much, but they seem to tolerate each other on their own accord and stay out of each others way in general lol.One of ours went missing for 4 days just after a big thunderstorm. Sod's Law, the tracker battery had given up before I started looking for him, so we had a similar few days to you but eventually we got some local sightings and he eventually turned up in a school nearby.
He still goes a fair way from home but we've got a GPS and RFID tracker on him now and we regularly check them to make sure they're in good working order, so can't do much more than that really.
Our two cats have some pretty bad fights every now and then but the rest of the time the reluctantly tolerate each other. We've just started trying Feliway Friends, which I'd say has helped a bit. The other thing which seems to calm them if they're both in the living room with us is a lavender scented candle.
Oh, and maybe you should get some tea-tree oil on those scratches
The scratches aren't so bad now, just a few that are sore. I'll live
In total, I've tried 4 different GPS trackers on our adventurous cat (the other one never goes too far from home, so we just have a short range Loc8tor tag on him).
The #1 issue is battery life, the way we configure it.
There are some good trackers on the market now, but if you set them up to report the cat's location every 5-10 minutes like we do, the battery inevitably lasts barely more than 12 hours.
You can configure them just to respond to an SMS message with the current location and in that mode some of them last for several days on a charge, but the trouble with that is if your cat is hiding somewhere indoors or is curled up sleeping with the tracker buried in his fur, deep in the undergrowth, it may not be getting either a GPS fix or a GPRS signal, so you won't be able to get a location from it.
At least if you've got the last-known position stored on a server you can start looking in that area. Otherwise you'd have to keep regularly sending SMS messages in the hope the cat has moved and the tracker is now in the open.
The tracker we've been using for the last couple of years has been very reliable and sends out position updates every 10 minutes which I can then supplement with SMS messages to get a more up to date fix. The battery lasts easily for a day on a full charge, so we take it off each night and it's charged ready the next morning. Sadly, this tracker isn't made any more, so I don't know what I'm going to do when it eventually fails.
I also put a camera on our cats for a few weeks to see what they get up to. That was quite interesting, but it had to stop when they started taking more artistic photos than I can
The #1 issue is battery life, the way we configure it.
There are some good trackers on the market now, but if you set them up to report the cat's location every 5-10 minutes like we do, the battery inevitably lasts barely more than 12 hours.
You can configure them just to respond to an SMS message with the current location and in that mode some of them last for several days on a charge, but the trouble with that is if your cat is hiding somewhere indoors or is curled up sleeping with the tracker buried in his fur, deep in the undergrowth, it may not be getting either a GPS fix or a GPRS signal, so you won't be able to get a location from it.
At least if you've got the last-known position stored on a server you can start looking in that area. Otherwise you'd have to keep regularly sending SMS messages in the hope the cat has moved and the tracker is now in the open.
The tracker we've been using for the last couple of years has been very reliable and sends out position updates every 10 minutes which I can then supplement with SMS messages to get a more up to date fix. The battery lasts easily for a day on a full charge, so we take it off each night and it's charged ready the next morning. Sadly, this tracker isn't made any more, so I don't know what I'm going to do when it eventually fails.
I also put a camera on our cats for a few weeks to see what they get up to. That was quite interesting, but it had to stop when they started taking more artistic photos than I can
Ahbefive said:
A friend had a cat but one day found a kitten under their car and decided to take it in and nurture it. It was ok for a couope of weeks before the old cat upped, left and never returned.
The old cat is the more stable of the two.ali_kat said:
I quoted Monty Python
He's lovely
LOL, I never watched it(!)He's lovely
He is, and very annoying at the same time
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