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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / November 2006Cat in hiding...can't find her!
Hello ~ My parents recently got their third cat, taking her as a favor to a friend of mine. They have 2 female cats and this is their third. When they brought her home, she was secluded for some time as to get acclimated to the house. She was later released into the house and immediately hid in the basement. They knew where she was and she was eating and using the litter box (when no one could see her). We got her out of hiding and put her back in seclusion to start over with the process. Immediately upon being in seclusion, she was FINE - friendly, purring, sitting on laps, not hiding. After a week - ten days, they let her out and she immediately took off and hid. She hasn't been seen since (she is still eating and using the litter box). It's been about 2 weeks and there no one knows where she is. Any suggestions to locating her? Some rooms in the house have been blocked off (if possible) if they know she is not there. Any help is most appreciated!! Just because the rooms are blocked off does not mean the furball is not in there. there are sneak thieves getting in places where you least expect them to be. IMO FIND THE CAT ASAP put a collar with a bell on it also add two things to the collar a flashing led light which clips onto the collar and a remote key finder that beeps when you whistle. They are very light weight I had to do this for one of our cats for a while. The furball decide to disappear in the house for days at a time. When the furball figured out that there was no more hiding Your furball sounds like a feliway dispenser will be need to calm down the furball maybe possible medications. It sounds like an over excited cat. You need to do the seclusion again than introduce to the rest of the house room by room very slowly and cat proof the house against future disappearances > Hello ~ My parents recently got their third cat, taking her as a favor > to a friend of mine. They have 2 female cats and this is their third. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > locating her? Some rooms in the house have been blocked off (if > possible) if they know she is not there. Any help is most appreciated!! ...It's been about > 2 weeks and there no one knows where she is. Any suggestions to locating > her? ... Hi Elizabeth, Look under all the beds and check for a rip in the fabric underneath the box springs, or a suspicious bulge causing the fabric to droop. Also check inside the furniture. If you have a reclining chair or couch, do not change the position of the furniture until you make sure the cat is not underneath where it could be injured by the mechanics of the thing. If you have a fireplace, do not light a fire in it. The cat could be in the chimney. Annie You also may want to try to lure the cat out with food. Sometimes shaking their food box or whatever it comes in helps. I know mine come out of the woodwork when they hear their food being moved around. Please let us know where you find her :-) It's always nice to know what these guys' latests tricks. The box springs would have been my guess, but somebody has already covered that. ep > Hello ~ My parents recently got their third cat, taking her as a favor > to a friend of mine. They have 2 female cats and this is their third. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > locating her? Some rooms in the house have been blocked off (if > possible) if they know she is not there. Any help is most appreciated!! on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:44:14 GMT, "Edna Pearl" <edna_pearl@BiteMeSpammeryahoo.com> wrote: > It's always nice to know what > these guys' latests tricks. The box springs would have been my guess, > but somebody has already covered that. when I first got Rudy at 4 months and feral, he used to hide in the rafters of the ceiling in my unfinished basement. It took me a while to find him, and so then I started to keep that door closed. Now he comes when I call him, but he's usually just sleeping on one of a few favorite pieces of furniture. I really like it when he comes and jumps in my lap out of the blue for some lovin'. They almost all come around eventually. :)  SignatureLynne I had a cat who would hide when any company came. I couldn't find where she was going until that winter when I went to get blankets down off a shelf. Here she had been stuffing herself in between the top two blankets and hiding. Celeste > Hello ~ My parents recently got their third cat, taking her as a favor > to a friend of mine. They have 2 female cats and this is their third. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > locating her? Some rooms in the house have been blocked off (if > possible) if they know she is not there. Any help is most appreciated!! Elizabeth, did you find her? If not, how about blocking off all the rooms you can but keeping food, water, litter box in each closed room. She could be where you least expect. If the food is untouched, you'll know she's not in those rooms. Have you looked behind all of the appliances? Try behind the refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher. Are there loose cabinet doors that she could open the door and it would close behind her -- like under the kitchen sink? We have a cat who is great at hiding in drawers and cupboards. If this was your friend's cat, could they come over? Would the cat recognize their voice? Let us know what happens. Rhonda > Hello ~ My parents recently got their third cat, taking her as a favor > to a friend of mine. They have 2 female cats and this is their third. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > locating her? Some rooms in the house have been blocked off (if > possible) if they know she is not there. Any help is most appreciated!! is there perhaps an open window well or hole in the installation? you'd be shocked where cats will run off to. do you have an attic? seriously you need to check EVRYWHERE. I'd be a little concerned that the cat is trapped somewhere - my cat ran away once (and he's an indoor cat and didn't know the lay of the land) and he got trapped in a neighbor's garage for 5 days without food which is very upsetting - luckily a neighbor heard him whining. more likely he/she is chilling out in a small dark spot relatively nearby. put food near all the doors. . he/she has a great sense of smell and will definitely be hungry. we eventually caught our our other cat when he jetted by setting up a motion light that went off when anything got near the food - granted a couple times it was a neighbor's cat but it did ultimately work. Hi everyone, Thanks for your suggestions. I went to my parents' last night and found her! She was tucked in a corner and I probably would have missed her had she not made a noise. We'll figure out the next steps.... Thanks again! > Hi everyone, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Thanks again! If you lose the cat again... When I moved my first cat from my parents' home into my apartment, she freaked. I tried to do it gradually, and she seemed fine during the day, but when I went to sleep the first night, she hid somewhere. I couldn't find her for three days, but I could tell she wast eating, drinking, and using the litter pan. Still, it was a tiny apartment, and I looked everywhere to no avail. I couldn't imagine where she could be hiding. Then I came home on the fourth day, and there were little sooty footprints running from the fireplace to the kitchen, up onto the counter, and on the side of the refrigerator. She has managed to squeeze herself into what looked like a 1-inch gap from the front, but it turned out that there was about a 4-inch gap on the side, between the bottom of the kitchen cabinets and the top of the refrigerator. Next time, dust the floor around the cat food with flour and see what happens :) (This scheme be tougher with three cats of course, but it could probably be managed). -- Jennifer
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