Davenport, FL Lost Male Cat, Snowball Is Missing

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Tina D.

6 months ago

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Bianca R.

7 months ago

Please check all shelters in person pictures can look different online and they sometimes get the gender wrong prayers

Bianca R.

7 months ago

Please keep expanding your search area and keep hanging signs everywhere prayers

Bianca R.

7 months ago

Hang big signs everywhere even on your mailbox. Ask neighbors to check their ring cameras. Contact the microchip company and report lost also contact your vet and let them know too. Contact local rescues and shelters in person pictures can look different online. Contact local businesses, schools, vet offices, police and fire stations, pet stores, groomers, churches. Set up a scent trail using your dirty laundry outside. Prayers you find your baby ♥️

Gab K.

7 months ago

Please read till the end..Walk around calling your cat as you always do. Look under bushes and in hiding places. Look at dawn and dusk with a flashlight to catch the glare of your cat's eyes. Leave garage door and lanai partially open if possible. Your cat will try to get back inside ..most likely at night. Use a trap...The only way to find his way home.or to the trap is by smell. Use some of your used clothes, put them outside and around the trap. A friend of mine used her shirt and dragged it through the neighborhood. Her cat found the smell and followed it home. It is all about the smell. You can also cut a shirt of yours into small small pieces and leave a scent trail back to the trap. I read a few days ago that a lady put out a trace with the old litter throughout the neighborhood. It worked. Her cat came home! Use the litter to lead your cat to the trap. Also try to distribute flyers throughout that neighborhood...as many as you can ( 3 miles radius at least). Check shelters in person...don't just call. Put battery operated trail cameras or motion cameras (Amazon for $25) outside. Your cat might show up in the middle of the night. When you know the time you can wait for for your cat and slow blink to make contact. NEVER GIVE UP! I read once that you can put a chair outside and cover it up with a blanket and the cat can jump up and hide under the blanket and feels safe. They said you should put one of your shirts under the blanket and food and water next to the chair. It might be worth a try to put up a chair

Paula V.

7 months ago

The only way a lost cat can find its way home is with its nose. Immediately put out the dirty litter box. Do not leave the litter box out overnight. Predators come at night. Only do this during the day...The dirtier the better. Put the litter box out along with anything that stinks of you like your smelly socks something that you sweated in overnight your stinky sneakers. Get everything outside immediately and remember to pull in that litter box when it gets dark out, leaving out all of your smelly clothes shoes socks underwear etc. Cats usually stay within a five house radius of their own home for up to a week sleeping in the bushes and coming out at dusk Dawn and late at night. These are good times to take walks shaking the treat bag and calling for them. Cats can smell up to a whole mile away. So do that immediately and also put this on nextdoor. com and the other lost and found pet sites. Go on those sites looking at pics of found cats too. There might be a match.They tend to come home late at night or early in the morning so if you can keep a window cracked or a door cracked so at least you hear them. Good luck

Kimberly P.

7 months ago

My indoor only male black cat got out once. We put out all the scents. Old blankets, our unwashed clothes, his scratch post, his empty dirty litter box, vacuum dust etc. My nextdoor neighbor would see him trying to return during the day while we were at work. Then get scared and run off into nearby woods. I started setting my alarm for 3am while it was quiet and go out calling him. Finally after 5 days I heard him crying in very thick bushes Nextdoor to our house. I saw his eyes with my flashlight. I had to literally crawl to get him. He was like afraid to move. I finally got him . They usually don’t travel far. They will hunker down close by.

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