Missing Cat... weather question

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by V

Your cat's name isn't Virtute by any chance?

Virtue the Cat Explains Her Departure

[urban1]

One worry is that the cat will try to find somewhere warm to sleep. It may try to get into an open garage or shed and then can get locked in there. A bad one is cats will climb into the engine bay of a car that is still warm. We used to have a neighbourhood cat that always did that to our car. Could end up in a bad way depending where the cat is when you start the car. The other worry is that someone lets the cat into their house and decides to keep it.

Id agree with the other poster... put some food and water out in your yard. Walk around your neighbourhood calling your cats name is another option. And throw some posters up in case someone finds your cat.

[surferguy]

Yep walk around and shake you kittys food box. That usually get the ears perked up.

Good luck on the hunt.

[Jayems]

Boy are there ever a lot of cats down at the humane society. One did look similar, and really had to look, but no luck.

Thankfully, its so warm out right now that its nice not to worry about the cold.

[tvp2003]

Good luck with the search

Fortunately, our cat is strictly an indoor cat, and aside from a few curious glances when the door is open, is waaay too chicken to make a run for it Besides, if she ever went missing, all we would probably have to do is walk around shaking a bag of Temptations and she would come running!

[V]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Virtue the Cat Explains Her Departure

That song is phenomenal

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by V

That song is phenomenal

I still love Plea From a Cat Named Virtue more, but it's just cool that there are songs from the point of view of a cat.

[Old Yeller]

Echoing the advice, buy the smelliest wet cat food you can find, mix in some tuna, and place it in a dish outside.

You may not find your cat, but you'll have 17 others to pick from.

(Good luck)

[FireFly]

When my family moved from Red Deer to Sundre in December about 12 years ago, my cat Czar left immediately. Three months later he returned. This is the coldest part of the year and my cat came back plump and healthy. Mind you he fit his name. He was a tough bugger and he owned the neighbourhood. There's hope.

[V]

Originally Posted by kermitology

I still love Plea From a Cat Named Virtue more, but it's just cool that there are songs from the point of view of a cat.

Plea was good, but I thought Virtutes sequel was better. In fact, Im not sure theres a better song out of all their albums, IMO, at least.

Is it considered a thread hijack if only two posters are in on the side discussion? If so, sorry.

Why does my apostrophe accomplish the same thing as Ctrl-F all of a sudden? Weird.

[redforever]

Originally Posted by Old Yeller

Echoing the advice, buy the smelliest wet cat food you can find, mix in some tuna, and place it in a dish outside.

You may not find your cat, but you'll have 17 others to pick from.

(Good luck)

And skunks.

[DAN0383]

This might sounds silly but does your cat like tuna or eat canned food?
Our cats would come running from a long ways away when we would tap the can of food with the spoon. Hope you find her.

[Flames in 07]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Now our cat is an inside cat, but frequently goes outside and is almost always let back in at night.

To be clear, that's an outdoor cat.


Good luck with your search (sincerely) but think about those statistics when you get Mr. Replacement someday.

Take it from experience - a cat that never knows the outdoors will never miss it. Seriously.

Cowperson

All points I was going to make, to say that this is an inside cat, but frequently goes outside is like saying "I'm not a smoker, I only smoke at parties and when I drink."

I hope your find your cat, and more importantly I hope you decide to treat your "indoor cat" like an indoor cat ... without the quotations.

We have never let our cats outdoors, except on a leash ... and consequently they have no interest in being outdoors on their own.

[Kjesse]

Originally Posted by urban1

One worry is that the cat will try to find somewhere warm to sleep. It may try to get into an open garage or shed and then can get locked in there. A bad one is cats will climb into the engine bay of a car that is still warm. We used to have a neighbourhood cat that always did that to our car. Could end up in a bad way depending where the cat is when you start the car.

I've seen this with grisly results, albeit back in the early 80's when car engine bays had a lot of excess room. Unbeknownst to mom and I, a cat had curled up right near the radiator fan in the dead of winter. The car was a big Buick Park Avenue. Mom started the car, we heard some funny noises, got out, it took a few seconds but the cat fell, we could see it under the car, it was gross, a lifeless bloody mess. Went and got dad, he got a shovel, picked it up from under the car, and I'm presuming buried it in the alley.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Flames in 07

All points I was going to make, to say that this is an inside cat, but frequently goes outside is like saying "I'm not a smoker, I only smoke at parties and when I drink."

I hope your find your cat, and more importantly I hope you decide to treat your "indoor cat" like an indoor cat ... without the quotations.

We have never let our cats outdoors, except on a leash ... and consequently they have no interest in being outdoors on their own.

I think its hard to do once theyve got a taste for outside. I have a cat which was originally a street cat, and it loves being outside. After a few years I tried to phase it out from being out there and let it out less and less. Actually at one point I didnt let her out for a solid six months straight. Yet still she whined and whined to get out. I finally gave up and started letting her out sparingly again, she never seemed to tire of it.

If I ever get a cat again I dont think Im gonna let it out at all, but once theyve got a taste for it I think its pretty hard to quench. At least thats what Ive found

[Sainters7]

Hopefully this isnt the case for the starter of this thread, but unfortunately this is a risk you take when you get a cat. Theyre very independent, wandering animals, and it seems more often than not that a cat's life seems to end in tragedy. I cant count how many friends/family I know who've had their cat: killed by a dog, ran away, hit by a car, eaten by coyotes, etc, it just happens with them unfortunately.

If you do find him again you can just lock him up in the house all the time, but I think thats unfair to it and you just have to let it live its life. This is just what its like when you have a cat unfortunately, and I think people have to take this into account when they get one.

[SarichFan]

My cats go in the back yard, they don't go anywhere, but at the same time when they're out there i'm there 100% of the time.

I'm guessing this cat wasn't microchipped, or licenced.. Because if someone found your cat you would've been notified.

[Devils'Advocate]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

I think its hard to do once theyve got a taste for outside. I have a cat which was originally a street cat, and it loves being outside. After a few years I tried to phase it out from being out there and let it out less and less. Actually at one point I didnt let her out for a solid six months straight. Yet still she whined and whined to get out. I finally gave up and started letting her out sparingly again, she never seemed to tire of it.

Same with my cat. She too was rescued off the street and she often whines to go outside. My back yard is fenced off, but there are a few spots where I think she could squeeze under or squeeze through, so I don't let her out unattended. But when it was time to go back in she didn't want to go, so she tried bounding up my apple tree. I had just clipped her nails recently, so she wasn't able to scamper up... all she could do was hang on. It was absolutely hilarious - she was 3 inches off the ground, stuck and meowing for someone to save her.

Jayems: Sorry to hear about your cat. Our terrier once escaped the yard to hunt down a rabbit that was heading into the woods. She was unable to find her way home. We searched the woods, calling her for days with no luck. We had pretty much given up hope after two weeks - when we came home one day and someone had anonymously returned the dog and put her in a dog bed outside our door (address was on dog tag). The person who returned the dog did phone us 3 weeks later to ensure that the dog was doing okay but she absolutely refused to accept a reward. We even tried to do a reverse look-up on the phone number to find this person with no luck. The good Samaritan said that the dog had made it to the other side of the woods - 10 miles away! So don't give up too quickly - miracles do happen.

[North East Goon]

[quote=Jayems;1057757]Now our cat is an inside cat, but frequently goes outside and is almost always let back in at night. The nights that she accidentaly gets left out, she usually waits by our bushes until someone leaves for school / work.


With an indoor cat, it's best to actually keep them indoors. That really is the most important part of having an indoor cat! My apologies to Seinfeld!

[Cowperson]

I have three former outdoor cats in my brood, two of them feral.

The two feral cats, now seven years old and with us 6.5 of those years, have no interest in going outside.

Our handicapped cat is the one taken outside and, naturally, hangs around the door wanting to go out. As she has no way to defend herself, she has a human hovering over her at all times.

The fourth cat has never set foot outside and probably thinks the view out the window is a big TV screen. Earlier, we had two cats for 15 years who also never set foot outside.

Polly has no back feet but can still catch mice, which means she has dogs following her around when she's in hunting mode:



Cowperson