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Prince is Missing in Hoffman Estates, IL

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Status

LOST

Date Last Seen

October 1, 2026

Location Last Seen

Hoffman Estates, IL 60169

Nearest Landmark

Lakeview Elementary School, Evergreen Park

Name

Prince

Sex

Male

PawBoost ID

73526060

Species

Cat

Description

TNR brown/tan tabby cat, with bright orange eyes, tipped left ear, and missing canine tooth.

Message from Owner

Hi all, an outdoor cat I’ve been looking out for has been missing since 10/1/26. His home base used to be the abandoned hse on Lakeview Ln for the last 3 years, but it was demolished on 10/2. I’ve named him Prince, and he is a tabby cat with bright orange eyes, tipped left ear, missing canine tooth and has the sweetest meow. He’s barely feeder friendly and very skittish, so he will probably bolt if approached. It took me 3 years to pet him occasionally. I didn’t have a lot of time and tried relocating him beforehand, but was not successful, he bolted, and I’ve been looking for him every day since. I’m really praying he was not trapped inside the hse, and desperately looking for confirmation that he is alive and safe. From seeing him everyday for 3 years, to nothing has been heartbreaking.. Please keep an eye out for him, check your yards and sheds. If you spot him, please take a picture or video and send me a message or comment. Thank you all for your time.

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Michele G.
1 hour ago
Roxanne Traviss she doesn't need to get off Facebook
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Michele G.
1 hour ago
Put clothes with your scent outside and check bushes and trees with a flashlight at night shake bag of treats or dry food and call it's name
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Roxanne T.
2 hours ago
Käsh Swäteverîn
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Roxanne T.
3 hours ago
Käsh Swäteverîn as long as you continue to go out night after night, remember. And with your flashlight, remember, he's going to be down under under bush's in someone's garage under someone's car and someone's car wheel, it took my one friend, maybe three weeks, another friend, maybe four weeks. My other girlfriend just found up in 5 days cause he was trapped in the neighbor's garage and somehow got into the neighbor's house. I was upstairs and their bedroom. It was a weird situation, but it was because they got through on a cross space. So you have to remember, you have to get down low if you see them with your light. But you have to keep going out, and when it rains out. And it gets cold up. We have to make sure you redo your staff for everything around your house. Because they're gonna be smelling you and them. They could smell up to 12 houses and back, and the one place you looked at. When you started out your walk on your way back. When you look again, it could be right there. So don't give up, you'll get your baby. You just have to do boots on the ground. I make sure that there's food out. How did the feeding station? Because he may not know that that's what's going on for maybe closer to the house where you put the clothes, things that smell like him. Check your garage, check under your car. Check under the people's cars. Check under. It's usually under. Sometimes they're trapped in trees, but that's another way that you can look to. But you have to be outside, and he has to hear you and smell you, they get better. Sniffers think dogs do, and they can usually smell up to about twelve houses down and they can hear you, but you have to do softly because they're scared good luck and don't give up every night. I'm at a hot tired
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Käsh S.
4 hours ago
Roxanne Traviss thank you for all the advice, I truly appreciate it. I’ve been going out multiple times a day and night at various times looking and calling for him, shaking treats. Neighbors have been informed, pictures and information shared, I am now resorting to posting online in hopes of extra eyes. I have a feeding station close to the house I fed him at and at my house with cameras setup that I review frequently. I switch out sweaters that smell like me. I will do everything I can to get him back in my care and bring him indoors. Prince was 1 out of 2 that I fed, and I was able to catch the other one. I have the other cat isolated until cleared by vet before I try socializing. I agree, it is too dangerous for them to be out, especially with the winter coming. I have not stopped worrying about him since the last time I saw him, and will not give up. Thank you for your support.
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Roxanne T.
5 hours ago
So you need to get off Facebook and get out there and see if you could find them. He's in a neighborhood. He's not used to. It's going to be difficult for him to get home. There is a special way to Reham a cat, because they get scared, they run, they hide and then they get lost. So get off facebook and go out there. And do your best to find him boots on the ground
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Roxanne T.
5 hours ago
You might want to go out at night. Whatever thing is quiet because they seem to come out. Because that's when they're looking for food and trying to stay away from coyotes, things like that. If you even walk up-and-down the alley calling his name shaking his tree bag check-in garages he might be stuck in a garage Maybe stuck under somebody's stairs. Make sure that you take a flashlight with you. Because you can see the glowing eyes and the bushes you might be stuck somewhere you can't get out. He should have a safe place to stay. I always try to work my ferros and to becoming an indoor cat. Because it's more dangerous every day for our door cats. Coyotes, are there predators? Human beings are snatching animals right now. For various reasons, we won't go into people poisons. Kids cruelty, it's not the world. We're used to live in. High Ferrer's can be socialized to come into your home. There's a certain procedure you have to use to Reham. This cat. Now, he's somewhere where he doesn't know where he is. He doesn't know where to go for food. He doesn't know any way a trap. Neuter and return. Rescue before rehoming him there is a special way to do it. And if it's not done, they're gonna run. And get lost and not know where they are. So I'm gonna send you prayers. After that, try working, you can't inside to become a inside cat. You could start off by him being in the bathroom litter box slow, but slow. I hope you get your cuddy back if he was part of a tnr they usually chip them. Excuse any chromatical remarks errors, i'm trying to use voice text and it changes words sometimes because I hurt my hand good luck prayers too
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Roxanne T.
5 hours ago
Okay, first things first. You need to put clothes that have your scent. Your family sent a Kitty scent in the front on my front door by the back door near on the house. You can hang it in the tree. If you have the garage door hanging down the garage door and put the garage door a couple inches about 6 inches open. And you can put a Kitty bad in there as well. With more clothes, it spelled like you. Then, we just wanna do is take your vacuum bag and sprinkle the contents all around your house so that the outside smells like the inside of your house. Cats have great sniffers. Then, you wanna put water and food usually in the bag? After that, make sure that you have a nighttime camera. So you can see if the Kitty comes during the night. If he does, then you know, to leave the door open a little bit, what's a maybe sardine? Smell, make sure that the other cats or any other animals you may have are locked up in other rooms. She may just walk in the house, or if you want to talk to somebody about trying to trap her, then every single day. What you need to do is take her treat bag and very gently shake it and call her name very short gently because she is very scared and probably the most 12 houses down. You need to take a flashlight because you need to look under things. She's under a deck. She's under a shed. She's in a garage, and then you have to put her on different, lost of bound sites, flyer, slires, flyers, flyers everywhere, and it has to be boots on the ground. We have to go to shelters. Make sure that she's not there. Because they euthanize you after a certain time. Talk to your neighbors, ask them if they mind that you go in the yards. At night, looking for your kitty, and you remember when she comes out, she's gonna be scared and she might be fast, so be prepared, you're Kitty, woke. Come home, but you need to do this every single day. It may take a couple of days. It might take a couple of weeks or a month, but you will take get your Kitty back. You just need to be consistent. Call your police department. See if anybody has said these senior cat, but you can't stop. It's something you gotta keep doing. I can please do it
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