Renee C.
2 weeks ago
- If kitty is an indoor cat it will typically stay within a 3 to 5 house radius of her home.
- Indoor/outdoor cats can be up to 15+ houses away.
- Kitty will hide during the day and only come out after dark between dusk and dawn.
- Kitty may not come when called.
- The majority of cats return home between 2 and 4 AM.
- Leave your garage and porch doors open or leave a window open so that kitty can climb through.
- Using your not yet washed clothes and sheets, make a scent trail in your yard and onto your porch with the laundry . Hang items over bushes, low tree branches, car hood, and on porch railing. Let trail lead to your front door, open garage or open window.
- Around 10 pm put rotisserie chicken outside (warm it first so that the scent really carries in the night breeze).
- these familiar scents and scent of food will help kitty overcome his/her fear and come out of hiding.
- Throughout the night get up and go outside. Walk the 3 to 5 house radius and call softly, listen carefully.
- Look both high and low. Kitty could be stuck up in a tree or locked in a neighbor's garage.
- A lady reported finding her cat recently. She set her alarm for 2 am, opened her front door, turned on her TV on low, placed an open can of cat food in the house near the door. Kitty came walking into the house.
- One man set his alarm and got up every hour and another slept on the couch and heard the cat scratching at the door.
- Another tip is to warm chicken stock and makes a trail of it from the street or yard up to the house. Even pour it in the bushes and trees where the wind could carry the smell.
- Other people have used catnip to help lure their cat home.
- Use a flashlight to look for your cat’s eyes at night.
- You will lose sleep, but this has worked
Good luck and don’t give up!
