Missing Cat... weather question

[FlamesKickAss]

He come back yet?

if not have you checked the city website for found cats?

http://www.calgary.ca/portal/server....i_OpenerMode=2&

[bigtmac19]

Originally Posted by 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

Cowperson, you take the best pictures!! That kitty looks so cute (your dogs are beautiful). Our kitty is terrified outside, if we sit outside in the summer for a bit, she asks to come out, but sits under my chair for 2 minutes, then cries to go inside. She just hates being left out. Has never been more than 3 feet from the front door with someone carrying her. Once we took her down to the end of the front yard and put her down. She ran up to the house next door, not realizing she wasn't at the right house and sat there and cried, because she didn't know what to do, even though I was right there talking to her and calling her from 10 feet away.

[Jayems]

Nothing yet.. still hoping and looking. Been to the impound place and the humane society, put pic up on petlynx.net etc... all that good stuff.

Hopefully, she'll just come home like last time before it gets too cold.

[lifer]

I hope you cat comes home. I don't have any advice to offer but a story that can maybe keep your hopes up.

I'm from the West Kootenays in B.C., if you're familiar with that area you know that the area has a ton of wildlife, and gets as much snow as anywhere in the country. The girl I was dating in high school lived in a very, very rural area (basically her family owned property on the side of a mountain and had a house there). The cat dissapeared one day in September and didn't come back until the next summer. She got home from work one day and her cat was sitting by her bedroom window. Somehow it survived all of the cougars, coyotes, bears, temperatures, and snow storms. It was a little bit skinnier when it came home, but other than that he seemed fine.

Anyway, I guess my point is that cats can be quite resourcefull when they need to, and can survive against steep odds. Keep your hopes high. Good luck.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Hope you find your cat.

An unattended cat isn't something that is unusual. Hopefully the homing instinct comes into play.

[Jayems]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Hope you find your cat.

An unattended cat isn't something that is unusual. Hopefully the homing instinct comes into play.

And thats just it... one minute of inattention, and she was gone. Everyone else just assumed she was in someone else's room because she'd never sleep in the same room twice in a row.

The guilt i feel is palpable.

[BlAcKNoVa]

Hope your cat comes back.

My cat cries at the door every once in awhile, and if it's warm out, we'll bring the harness out for her and walk around the yard for a bit. One night though while checking for mail she somehow snuck by. An hour or so later we start looking for her, and finally open the door and she's on the doorstep laying down lol...