Purrs are on their way, Baha.  Cats are very good at finding hiding
places, and usually they're good at getting out of them when they're
good and ready.

The evening before I had to take Skeeter for her last visit to TED, she
disappeared.  I have a cat door, so I didn't even know for sure whether
she was inside or out.  I searched both house and yard thoroughly, and
didn't find her.  I finally had to go to bed, but I was frantic, and
didn't sleep much.  The next morning my daughter came to take me to a
medical procedure.  I told her about Skeeter's disappearance, and she
did her own search.  She finally found her in the guest room closet.  It
has sliding doors, with no stops, so the door can be pushed inward, far
enough for a cat to get inside.

We're in Southern California, and you may remember we had a big
earthquake several years ago.  My daughter's cats are strictly indoor
cats, and one of them disappeared.  The next day they found her hiding
inside the back of the washing machine.

I'm betting Odessa will turn up when she wants to - probably when she
gets hungry.  In the meantime, calming purrs are coming your way.

Joy

OMG, Baha.  Don't panic (hahaha)   This is what I would do, put a plate of
yummy food in the basement, if she's hiding up somewhere she'll eat it
perhaps in the night, and you'll notice it gone.
If she can get into the rafters, she can surely get out.  Is there any way
she can get to the outside?  If not, you have an almost 100% chance of
getting her back.
She is not stupid.  If she is hungry, she'll come for the food overnight,
and then perhaps you need to think about borrowing a trap.  If she is stuck,
and has a voice (unlike Kitty) she will yowl when she cannot get out and is
hungry/thirsty.
All is not lost.  You are not a bad mommy, okay?

Purrs for her safe return soon.

Tweed

Try to stay calm, Baha, Odessa will be fine.  She is probably just too
frightened to come out right now.  As soon as everyone has settled down or
gone to sleep she will creep out again to eat and use the litter box.  It's
*NOT* your fault - this sounds like a b#st%rd cat trick to me.  When cats
don't want to be found they *WON'T* be found.

Calming purrs for you and "quit scaring your mommy" purrs to Odessa.

Hugs,

CatNipped

Purrs for Odessa to return to you soon.
Please don't beat yourself up, you have done everything possible to keep
your cats safe.

Lois

Purrs and tail wags coming from us.  It isn't your fault at all.
Oliver went missing this spring.  I had all but given him up for lost
when he was found behind our buffet.  He had never left the house!

You've got our best come-out-of-hiding purrs!

How long has she been missing? When Nancy and I first moved into our
place in Highland Cleopatra went missing for about half a day. We still
don't where she was - our place is very small, we searched everywhere,
but she still managed to elude us.

I suspect she'll come out of hiding when she gets hungry or lonely or
scared.

Dan

You must be absolutely beside yourself.  She just has to be OK.   Poor thing
just likely found a really good hiding place.  Prayers that she show herself
ASAP.

And I'm not asking JAke to purr on this one.  He likes to do this to me and
would likely only send her really good hiding place purrs.

Jo

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lots of purrs for Odessa to come forward!

The longest Thea was "lost" inside the house/aptmt was some 4 hrs when she
was only little and had a nap in the base of the drying cupboard .... not
much space for access there but with cats they get tthrough amazinlgy small
openings sometimes, as long as they fit their head through they don't have
the collar bones to worry about ...
And of course when they find a really good place they don't give it up too
easily and don't answer when called or come for smelly food - not until they
think it's time ...

Best
Lena
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Hey, don't blame yourself! Your kitten is hiding - that's what kittens
*do*. Especially scared, new kittens. They're really, really good at it.
I'll bet she'll come out when she's ready to. My cats, all adults, love
to hide, and I'm sure that when I'm walking all over the apartment frantically
hunting for them and calling their name, they're sitting there chortling
to themselves. Cats love this sort of thing.

I really think you're being way too hard on yourself. Other people are
right: leave out some food, and she'll come and eat it when she feels like it.

What does this mean? Was he blaming you? What do you mean by "everything
but female"?

Purrs for Odessa to come out of hiding soon and help everyone calm down!!

Joyce

Purrs that she'll come out from hiding soon. Perhaps she's just 'sploring
and the 'sploring is far too interesting to be bothered with silly hoomins
right now. I'm sure she'll return when the hunger overtakes the curiousity.

Yowie

... Hopefully if she did get into the wall or the rafters she has the good

I can understand your frantic feeling, but I suspect that this is Odessa's
first b*st*rd cat trick.
Perhaps she's been communicating with the other cats on this group.
If you leave her water and food, she'll come out.
We'll send some purrs your way, just for good measure.
Annie, in the care of Rosie and Cinder

Hang in there sweetie, it will be ok.  Purrs and get your self where you
belong wishes and thoughts for little Miss Odessa.  Please keep us
posted about her and hang in there.  Cats LOVE to hide.  It's one of the
ways they experiment on us hoomins.

Pam, Rob, and the Fayetteville Seven

Many purrs coming over for Odessa to reappear soonest. Calming and
soothing purrs to you, Baha.

Oh Baha, how upsetting.  Get your fuzzy butt back purrs for the baby
girl..

Theresa
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My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

I'm still working my way down the list catching up, so I just read
this.  I know you caught her and I'm glad everything is fine.  But I
just wanted to say that it's really easy to lose a kitten in your own
house, so don't feel bad!
When we first got Vino, we were living in a 1 bedroom condo on the
12th floor in Vancouver.  Within an hour of getting home, Vino had
disappeared.  We totally freaked, felt guilty, thought we were
irresponsible, etc.  Looked everywhere, and there's not many places to
look in a tiny 1 bedroom condo!  Dennis even told me to go out in
front of the building and check in the trees in case he'd jumped off
the balcony and skewered himself.  Sheesh!
In the end, we found him way up inside of the corner section of our
L-shaped couch.  What a relief!  There is a longer version of the
story on Flippy's catpage if you're interested.