How to Find a Lost Cat
If your cat is lost, all is not lost. Take the following measures to recover her and bring her back home.
- Difficulty:
- Moderate
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Cardboard Boxes
- Cat Collars
- Cat Dishes
- Cat Foods
- Cat Toys
- Catnip
- Local Newspapers
- AVID Microchips Animal Tracking Device
- Identification Tags
- Fliers
- Cardboard boxes
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Walk very slowly and call out your cat's name. A lost cat will probably not come out of hiding, but will whimper and cry.
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Make familiar sounds likely to attract your cat: Shake a box of her favorite dry cat food or open a can.
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Search your neighborhood thoroughly late at night, including your old neighborhood if you've recently moved. Be cautious around cars and garbage cans.
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Place fliers that give a good description of your cat around your neighborhood.
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Check the Found Cats section of the newspaper daily.
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Check with your local animal shelter and humane society.
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Place familiar-smelling items such as T-shirts you've worn and not washed in a cardboard box, then place the box in your yard, as far away from the house as possible. Regularly check it late at night and early in the morning.
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Tips & Warnings
To help prevent losing your cat in the first place, put a tag or microchip on your cat to increase the chances of recovery. A microchip is an identification device inserted beneath your cat's skin. All humane societies and agencies have scanners to read the chip.
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Comments
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Dan, it worked! My cat Zoe was missing for three days. The second and third day I sat on the front porch with a candle for a while and then went to the back yard and did the same. She came home about 3 a.m. of the third day. She was hungry and very thirsty and had a small wound on her side, which is healing. I also walked my neighborhood calling her several times a day and one night (quietly so as not to disturb neighbors), put up posters, left flyers in doors, and paid a service that sends emails out to area shelters and vet clinics, so I can't say specifically what did the trick but sitting with the candle while visualizing her being back in my arms was a very powerful exercise. Thanks so much.
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thanks Dan I tried this and it worked talk about a miracle
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Thanks, Dan. I'll try that.
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Sad, hope she comes home.
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Mama Kitty has not come home for 2 days. I have looked for her, went by the local vet who knows her as a client, now I am ready to post signs in the neighborhood with her picture. Lake Forest, CA.
