My cat has gone missing (feline, safe, smells, food)
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I just want some advice really, so my cat has gone missing for the past week now on occasions he does decide to stay out and about for a few days but never this long. We live on a apartment/block of flats where he can only go on ours and the neighbours balcanies the drop to ground level is a bit of a long way down so I don't know if he can make that jump. The only thing I can think of is that he's at a neighbours dwelling, and funnily enough there is a neignour that he goes to regularly but the tennant said that the cat isn't there...
My cats were born and raised in the Alaska wilds. When I moved back east for awhile and lived in an apartment complex, one cat jumped off the balcony with regularity (she saw the forest). I would go out and look for her in the vicinity. She had learned the smells of the balcony of 'home' and would try to find her way back. That meant climbing the 'fire exit' stairs and going to a neighbor's balcony where there was an ingress or she would be sitting on a landing. Eventually, I found out where she was jumping from and put up barriers.
I would scour the region, call his name and listen and listen. Hopefully, you will hear a meow! Also, a can of food opening or a shake of a bag of dried food while calling his name may help. Remember to listen and listen again and be patient.
My cat, who is 8 yo can still jump from the porch railing to the roof...or shimmy up a palm tree and leap to the roof. She use to disappear for days at a time, now she only goes out to do her business, and back in she is, complete turnaround for her.
I would put some of his favorite food on the porch, call his name and see what happens. I hope that you see him soon. I would be worried to.
Blaliko wasn't born feral, but had been stray for quite some time before finding me two years ago. Condemnations from a faction of C-D'ers notwithstanding, she's still allowed to be an indoor/outdoor cat. (We live in a city neighborhood where most of the bird life is invasive nuisance species and many of the rodents are Norway rats. So any kills she and her daughter Seteria make are no loss to the ecosystem.) Except during the colder months of winter, Blaliko has been known to vanish for 3-8 days on a whim. I say she's keeping up old contacts and collecting debts. Yesterday morning she made her typical unceremonious return after having not been seen since Tuesday. She has the smarts necessary to survive - a healthy respect for moving vehicles and the willingness to physically attack dogs of all sizes (yes!) Plus our local community is cat-friendly to the extent of leaving food on porches when no feline is in residence. So while I go through the anxieties of your typical pet parent, by the same token Blaliko has trained me well enough that I no longer print/e-mail/phone around when she goes missing.
Odds are your cat is perfectly safe and sound, just "sowing some oats" and exploring the larger world. My hope is that he has a microchip ID if not a collar with tags. Particularly if this is not the case, post flyers in lobbies and on utility poles and make calls to animal shelters. Blaliko is the heiress apparent to Weasie, who owned me for 19 years and had a knack for finding friendly and unfamiliar people to tell sob stories to. Her notoriety was such that the entire "Animal Commission" in our city of some 105,000 persons knew her by description. ("A friendly, hungry, and very talkative cat followed us home last night." "What's the cat look like?" "She's a gray tabby with a white chin..." "That's Weasie.") At times horror stories are told of a small deranged subset of subhumans that delights in harming pets, but not once did Weasie ever meet bad fortune at the hands of anyone. Neither have my current "grrrlz." I don't suppose the OP's fugitive feline has, or will, either. And on an "up" note, my not offering a reward never prevented tips about Weeze from being phoned in or her being reunited with me. So don't feel the need to advertise one.
Keep us posted! Plenty of positive thoughts and energy are being sent across the "pond."
Odds are your cat is perfectly safe and sound, just "sowing some oats" and exploring the larger world. My hope is that he has a microchip ID if not a collar with tags. Particularly if this is not the case, post flyers in lobbies and on utility poles and make calls to animal shelters....
Keep us posted! Plenty of positive thoughts and energy are being sent across the "pond."
I hope your kitty comes back soon. I would be a basket case if any of mine went missing.
Is there any way you can make him an indoor-only kitty if he makes it back? I know that outdoor kitties are very common in the UK but when we lose them it is so, so, so, so devastating.
I knocked all the neighbours doors and he's still missing.
Jeez, I am so sorry, sending positive vibes your way!
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