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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2005And just to top my day off - suggestions needed
My fraidy feral Pandora snuck out of the back door when it was open this morning. She has managed to get into the back lane which is over grown with brambles and bushes, so finding her is "difficult". I have a good idea of where she is, but obviously want her back indoors. She doesn't come when she is called, but panics easily. I need suggestions. What I have done so far, is to empty the litter box outside the door from my garden into the lane so that if she stumbles across it, it smells familiar. Her best bud, Tiger, is mooching about in the lane (he's indoor/outdoor) and FWIW, I've told him to go find her. What I am planning to do, is wait until this evening, if she hasn't found her way back by then with Tiger, and cook some really smelly fish which she loves. Hopefully, by then, she'll be hungry enough to sneak out from under the bushes and I can herd her back indoors. I won't be able to get hold of a trap until tomorrow at the earliest as they are being used on a major colony at the moment. I am loath to go bashing about the bushes, as that really will scare her. She has a reflective collar on, so this evening at dusk i was planning on going looking for her under the bushes with a torch. Suggestions please to get this very naughty little girl home! Helen M > My fraidy feral Pandora snuck out of the back door when it was open > this morning. She has managed to get into the back lane which is [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Helen M Since she's a feral there's no telling what will work. Maybe whatever you originally did to get her trapped will work again. I'd start at dusk, that's their most active time and when she's most likely to be hungry. Best of luck and we'll be purring for it to be an easy ordeal. Just goes to show that having a "best friend" look for you, and mommy cook some fish (in this case, fresh salmon!) and all intrepid wanderers will come home. As I resorted to cooking some fish in the microwave to try and ecourage madam from under the bushes, Tiger disapeared out the back door. 30 seconds later, he and madam came trotting up the garden path. Cats 1 Mommy 0 Helen M > Since she's a feral there's no telling what will work. Maybe whatever you > originally did to get her trapped will work again. I'd start at dusk, that's > their most active time and when she's most likely to be hungry. Best of luck > and we'll be purring for it to be an easy ordeal. > Just goes to show that having a "best friend" look for you, and mommy > cook some fish (in this case, fresh salmon!) and all intrepid [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Helen M Thank goodness! Things are looking up. :-)  SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. > As I resorted to cooking some fish in the microwave to try and ecourage > madam from under the bushes, Tiger disapeared out the back door. 30 > seconds later, he and madam came trotting up the garden path. Excellent :-) Cheers, helen s LOL!! > Just goes to show that having a "best friend" look for you, and mommy > cook some fish (in this case, fresh salmon!) and all intrepid wanderers [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > their most active time and when she's most likely to be hungry. Best of luck > > and we'll be purring for it to be an easy ordeal. > Just goes to show that having a "best friend" look for you, and mommy > cook some fish (in this case, fresh salmon!) and all intrepid wanderers [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Cats 1 > Mommy 0 Phew. Let's face it though, she knows where her bread's buttered ;-) Tweed > Just goes to show that having a "best friend" look for you, and mommy > cook some fish (in this case, fresh salmon!) and all intrepid wanderers > will come home. > As I resorted to cooking some fish in the microwave to try and ecourage > madam from under the bushes, Tiger disapeared out the back door. 30 > seconds later, he and madam came trotting up the garden path. I'm glad she's home. To catch Smokey, we fed him outside the operations office every day. He got so used to being there (it was where the food was) that to walk by, pick him up and drop him in a carrier was easy. If Pandora hadn't come home I would've suggested setting out food for her outside your door. Good thing you don't need my advice any more :) --Fil > Just goes to show that having a "best friend" look for you, and mommy > cook some fish (in this case, fresh salmon!) and all intrepid wanderers [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Cats 1 > Mommy 0 LOL! Glad to know Tiger brought his girlfriend home. SignatureMarina, Frank and Miranda. In loving memory of Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki What a relief! Best wishes, SignaturePolonca & Soncek > Just goes to show that having a "best friend" look for you, and mommy > cook some fish (in this case, fresh salmon!) and all intrepid wanderers [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > their most active time and when she's most likely to be hungry. Best of luck > > and we'll be purring for it to be an easy ordeal. > My fraidy feral Pandora snuck out of the back door when it was open > this morning. She has managed to get into the back lane which is [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Helen M Sorry, no suggestions, just purrs the she finds her way home. Your luck's got to get better soon. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. > I am loath to go bashing about the bushes, as that really will scare > her. She has a reflective collar on, so this evening at dusk i was [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Helen M Good plan about dusk... Keep calling her. Does she react positively to the sound of a tin of cat treats being shaken?? Hoping she comes home soon. Cheers, helen s >> I am loath to go bashing about the bushes, as that really will scare >> her. She has a reflective collar on, so this evening at dusk i was [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Cheers, helen s You must have missed the follow up, HRFL Tiger has already brought her home. :-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. >You must have missed the follow up, HRFL Tiger has already brought her >home. :-) Good job HRFL Tiger! I haven't gotten down to the update myself - so will delete the homing purrs which are no longer needed ;-)) SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Spot with loving memories of Rocky (RB) stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html Well, I don't know about Pandora, but ours could never stand not to come to us if we went and sat outside. They would try to ignore us (because they knew they would get brought in) but eventually, they HAD to come over and see what we were doing (usually reading a book.). > My fraidy feral Pandora snuck out of the back door when it was open > this morning. She has managed to get into the back lane which is [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Helen M Helen, no suggestions from here, but purrs and prayers that the naughty girl comes home soon. Lily & her mama Jazz, RB SignatureIrulan from the stars we come to the stars we return from now until the end of time > My fraidy feral Pandora snuck out of the back door when it was open > this morning. She has managed to get into the back lane which is [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Helen M |
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