St. Augustine, FL Lost Female Cat, Little Bear Is Missing

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Christina R.

7 days ago

LITTLE BEAR HAS BEEN FOUND ALIVE AND IS EN ROUTE TO EMERGENCY SERVICES 🎉 Asking for good thoughts, prayers, best vibes, etc for her ❤️ she is very skinny.

Renee C.

4 weeks ago

Is she chipped?

Renee C.

4 weeks ago

Modify these tips to fit your situation: Missing cat: Acting quickly is best. Important - If pet went missing from home, do these tips at your home. If pet went missing while away from home, return to the area pet was last seen. Then modify / use these tips at the site pet was last seen. Most important tips, in my opinion are: 1) make the scent trail as indicated further below; 2) give kitty an easy point of re-entry into kitty’s home. 3) it’s preferably to leave open the window or door kitty escaped out of. 4) be sure to drape some of the scent trail items thru the open window (lay scent items thru the window sill, hanging down both inside and outside the house. If leaving the door home’s entry open, lay scent items on the ground thru door’s opening. 5) Leave the re-entry point open thru the night and into the morning hours. Kitty is most likely to return home between 1 am and 5 am. More kitty finding tips: - If kitty is an indoor cat it will typically stay in a 3 to 7 house radius of her home. - Indoor/outdoor cats can be up to 17 + 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. - Go door to door and tell your neighbors and nearby businesses that your cat is missing, give them a description of kitty or share Kitty’s photo with them, and give them your ph number. photo and your ph number. The more eyes on the lookout for your kitty, the better. - Offer a reward if you are financially able to do so. -Place neon colored Lost posters / signs in your yard and in the neighborhood. List the reward on the Lost Cat signs. - Ask your neighbors to check in their sheds, garages and any vehicle or building that may have been open around the time kitty went missing. Kitty might have sought shelter there / hidden and then become trapped. - Also ask your neighbors if they have a ring doorbell or outside cameras. If so, they may have a photo or video of your kitty which will tell you what direction kitty was going. - Make a scent trail in your yard and on your porch with your unwashed laundry and sheets. Hang items over bushes and on your porch railing. Let trail lead to your front door, open garage or open window. Also out Kitty’s bed or blanket outside. - Leave an entry door or a window open that kitty can climb through. - Around 10PM warm rotisserie chicken or just chicken broth, put it outside. This is also a scent to lure kitty out of hiding and back home. Warming it makes scent travel further. - Throughout the night get up and go out side. Walk the 3 to 5 house radius and call softly, listen carefully. - Bring a flashlight or use the flashlight on your phone. Kitty’s eyes will reflect back at you. - Look both high (trees/rooftops) and low (under bushes or porch). 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. - a lady who recently found her cat, sat outside overnight in a sleeping bag with a flashlight. She saw her cat walking right toward her in the early morning hours. Kitty came right to her! - Another tip is to use the warm chicken broth and make a trail of it from the street or yard up to the house. Even pour it in the bushes and trees where the wind can carry the smell. - your scent trail should always lead home. So start and end your walks at home. - Other people have used catnip to help lure their cat home. Alternatives to leaving a window or house door open. 1) open your garage door instead, even leaving it open just a few inches from the ground will do. Have a laundry trail go through the garage door opening and place some laundry in a comfy spot kitty can lay down. 2) sit outside overnight on your porch or in your driveway. Let the laundry trail lead to you while you sit outside. Have an open can of tempting wet cat food or canned tuna with you outside while you wait for kitty. You can also have cat nip or other delicious scented food with you. While outside sitting at night and on your walks, talk in a normal voice, or in the voice you use when you talk to your pets. Extra steps: If it’s in your budget, hire a pet tracker while pet’s scent trail is still fresh. And consider using a drone to search a large area. Yes, doing these tips requires some effort but to find a much loved pet, it’ll be worth it. These kitty finding tips have worked. Good luck and don’t give up! Let me know when you get your kitty back.

Renee C.

4 weeks ago

Get a hart trap and set it in the yard.bait trap with food kitty will like, a string scented food is best, tuna works for lots of cats. Lay your unwashed scent items across trap. Done cover the front or back of the trap. If there is anyway you can spend the night at the property in the yard or driveway, bring more scent items to lay across your vehicle or around your camp chairs

Christina R.

1 month ago

We are still searching for her. I’ve notified the shelters, talked to all the neighbors and exchanged info, we have her box in the front yard of the house until landlord throws it away, we had a thermal drone come in, and have staked out overnight a few times. Our lease ended the morning after she got loose, so we’re doing our best with living 25 minutes away now ☹️

Jacqueline F.

1 month ago

Lost cat Protocol Saw this awhile back & saved it. A woman just found hers using a trail cam. Cat is usually close by. When cats escape they are usually afraid. Therefore, they normally, hunker down and hide very close to home. They will usually only venture out a short way if they don’t find a food source. Once they find food, they will normally stay in that area. Most cats are creatures of habit and will keep coming back to the place they find food. You need to search for the cat nightly using an LED flashlight. This is important!!! It must be a bright LED flashlight. 400 lumens or stronger. (This is VERY IMPORTANT!) You can get one at Harbor Freight or WalMart for about 15.00. A regular flashlight isn’t bright enough. It has to be LED and at least 400 lumens. Go out nightly. Especially later when it gets very quiet. 12 AM or later around 2 AM is a good time. That is when cats prowl. Also, before dawn. Look for glowing green eyes. All cats eyes will glow green at night when you use an LED flashlight. Sometimes you have to bend down to catch the glow of the eyes at a certain angle. You must look under cars, in bushes, street gutters, etc. Anywhere at all they can hide. Do not call the cat’s name. That can spook them. Also, do not chase if seen. Many cats will go into survival mode or what’s called fight or flight mode and won’t even come to their owners. Get down on ground level and gently coax them to you patting the ground softly. Have some smelly canned food or shake a bag of treats. Have a carrier handy to put kitty into if it walks up to you. There’s a good possibility you might need to use a humane trap to catch your cat. Be consistent and do this nightly with the LED flashlight. I can’t stress this enough!! Also, you should set up a feeding station with a trail cam on it. I would set that up by the area the cat got out. Or, the last place they were seen hanging out. The trail cam will give you the capability to see if the cat is coming to eat. If so, you can set a humane trap baited with Mackerel in brine. It’s sold by the canned tuna in stores. It’s in a large can usually with the blue label. Your cat also might come back home looking for a way to get back in. If you can leave a window open that would be good. Also listen for the cats meow in case it’s trying to get back in at your front door. We have found many missing cats this way and some missing for a long time.

Patricia F.

1 month ago