Cayuga Heights, NY Lost Female Cat, Woo Is Missing

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Linda T.

2 months ago

Posters with reward in all local convenience stores like Cumberland farms and Stewart's...

Linda T.

2 months ago

Comprehensive Guide for Finding a Lost Cat Behavior: Cats go into a fight or flight mode when outside, but usually stay within 200 yards. Your cat will typically hunker down very close to home. If you know where they got out, go 300 - 500 yards in both directions close to there looking for small tight places can hide. Sheds, garages, wood piles under decks, small holes, storm drains. Utilize Video doorbells yours and neighbors baby video monitors and trail cameras to see when your pet is coming home. They may or may not recognize their name or your face. They WILL recognize, in most cases, sounds or smells: the sound of a food can opening, favorite toy, etc. Take a moment and think of all the sounds that perk up their ears and make them come running to you. Record them on your smart phone and play them when tracking. Indoor cats lost outside become active in the evening usually around 7pm-5am. The best times for you to actively search is between 11pm – 2am. If it is safe to do so, leave a door or window slightly open at night put food and water near the door, also place a video monitor near. Again only if it is safe for you to do this. NOTE - Get permission from your neighbors to look around their yards. Flyers: Posting flyers and posters can pose a problem for some communities please find out the laws in your area before posting. Putting flyers on or in mailboxes is also illegal. Your flyer should be color and as accurate to the actual colors and description of your cat. Place your flyer in plastic coverings and hang them with bright colored duct tape to catch the eye of people walking by. Post flyers everyplace you can within a mile of where your pet went missing. Place flyers at bus stops, dog walking paths, and any business that will let you in the area. Do not give your address or amount of reward; this will protect you a bit from scammers. Never give/send money without seeing your pet. Also leave a flyer with your Mailman, UPS, FedEx, Amazon and any other delivery drivers. Bus Drivers, Ice Cream trucks, local patrol cops, fire stations. Garbage and recycling guys too. Use Social Media is imperative; many lost and found groups have members who just match missing pets with found pets in trying to reunite families. Post on FB missing pets in your area and Pawboost for just 2 examples. File missing pet reports with all the animal control agencies in your area. Investigate if there are local Trap and Release and feeding groups in your area who may be willing to help. As well as reputable dog tracking teams. Check with shelters and vets as far away as 20 miles daily in person if you can. Sometimes the person finding your pet may live further away than your city. Feeding stations: This will help draw in your cat and verify that your cat is in the location. This is a large piece of cardboard with a thick layer of flour placed on top. In the center of the flour place food. Lay down feeding stations in several places to get your pet on a repeating path and keep them in the area. Check the stations often and look for foot prints and signs that the food has been eaten. Once you see foot prints in the flour you should have an idea where to trap. Scent Strips: Cut up some scent strips out of your old cloths or bed sheets etc. (one inch by three-inch strips) put them on the ground about 3 feet apart or so. (I wore a shirt for 5 days to make it smell as strong.) The smell on the strip can last 3-5 days. Cat Chum: Mix a gallon of water with 1-2 cans of tuna/sardines. DO NOT place your scent strips in your chum mix. When laying down scent lines it near the opening of the trap and run them in straight lines way from /feeding station/trap/home. Make these lines the safest way to traps or home avoiding roads and heavy pedestrian areas. You can and should use Scent strips and Cat Chum at the same time but keep them at least three or more feet apart when you lay them down. Tracking: Try to have someone with you to keep everyone else from checking out what you are doing and for safety. Take a flashlight (even during the day), look under bushes, decks, any place they could get their head into. They maybe in sheds behind garbage cans, in hollowed out trees and storm drains. Note: Cats have a floating collarbone that allows them to get there body into any space where their head can get through. Check under decks, sheds, in sheds, and garages, in trees and small tight dark places, even if you do not think your cat could get into it. Use a flashlight to shine eyes (this can cause them to just freeze in place) If you hear or see them REMAIN CALM sit down, make the sounds they recognize, call their name open and toss food. Most of all LET THEM COME TO YOU. It may take hours even if you are within10 feet of each other. Trapping: Get humane traps and place them close to the house or tree lines with favorite foods. (Sardines Tuna, or greasy chicken). Place a trap close by hidden under something that smells like home or you. Ask Neighbors to only put out water NOT food. Let your cat find food in the traps. In the trap put down 2 pages of newspaper the width of the trap. Place one page from the back over the trip plate. Place the 2nd page behind the trip plate to the door. This prevents a smart cat from pulling all the food to them easily. This helps hid the fact that it is a trap. Lay small chunks of food and food oil to a larger portion of food at the back behind the trip plate. (No bowls) Cover the trap with tarp or a blanket that smells like home but leave both ends open so the smell of the food gets out. Ensure that the trip plate and door are clear of anything that will prevent the trap from being sprung. This is very important if you do not use the newspaper on the floor of the trap. Check the traps at least two times a day. Also if possible, hang dirty laundry out at night, sometimes your cat is able to smell their way home. Place at least one trap near your home, as your cat maybe coming home while you sleep. Use Video monitors and/or trail camera to monitor. Establish a pattern, walk between your traps and home. Do this as often as you can. Get your scent into the air. This helps keep your pet in the area and increases the chances of getting your pet into a trap. Avoid crossing roads, train tracks and dangerous areas. Making Cat Shelter: Get/use a small cat carrier that is just big enough for your cat. Place a blanket that smells like you outside and straw inside. Place the carrier under cover somewhere tight and dark if possible. Leave the door open. Place food and water a favorite toy just inside the door. When approaching the shelter do it slowly and from the front. If your cat is there sit down and let them come to you. Do not make sudden movements, let them build trust. Turn your body and lower your head look as non-threatening as possible. Toss treats to the side of you and NEVER CHASE OR YELL at them. Litter (last resort): Put the UNCLEANED litterbox outside. For Multi-cat homes take the litter, bag it, then place the litter out further away from your strips and chum. NOTE this should be a last resort, as this can draw in Tomcats, Strays, and in some cases Predators that may keep your cat from coming home even hurt your cat. This is a LAST RESORT option and should be monitored with video monitors or trail cameras. If you are seeing danger then pull the box right a way. Your cat is looking for home! Keep that in mind, so draw them to home. Most of all NEVER GIVE UP. People have found their cats even after years of looking. Researched & written by Donna Harman

Linda T.

2 months ago

Please don't give up because your cat has been missing for a long time. My son's cat got out one October. We searched and searched. I put posters with his photo and a $50 reward in every Stewart's that would allow me to within about two miles, and I posted him on Facebook. Weeks went by. Then months. October became November, December, January...and then February. And then I got a call. A woman had been feeding a cat and allowing him to come onto a sheltered porch that she left open for him. One day she happened to see one of my posters in Stewart's and realized the cat she had been caring for might be ours. I went right over. After all those months outside, he was extremely frightened and wary and wouldn't come to us, so we had to use a humane trap to safely get him. But we got him. We brought him home and loved on him once again. I had prayed while he was missing that, wherever he was, someone would take care of him until we found him. And someone was. From October until February. So please, please don't assume that because weeks or even months have passed, your cat is gone forever. Keep the posters up. Replace them when necessary. Keep posting. Keep asking people to watch. Follow up on every credible sighting. If your cat is located but is too frightened to approach, get experienced help using a humane trap. That poster in Stewart's was still working for us months after I put it there. Don't lose heart. ❤️

Linda T.

2 months ago

Post on the Nextdoor spp..aldo all convenience stores librart animal control agencies and shelter..find out who people in your area who care for feral cats..I can't stress enough the effectiveness of flyers with reward and photo in all local places that low community posts. Also Nextdoor Neighborhood app..invaluable Offer a reward! If someone took your cat in, seeing the reward will hopefully motivate them to bring your cat to you Include a reward of any amount.

Linda T.

2 months ago

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Laura T.

2 months ago

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Shubh M.

2 months ago

Most lost cats come home/ are found between midnight-5 am so that’s a good time to look. Door to door with flyers in the area and flyers with nearby vets and shelters really helps. If sighted, It’s better not to chase, lost cats are even more skittish and spooked outside and will even run from their owners. If possible, it’s better to sit at ground level and talk in a normal voice, which will bring them closer to you. Even better, bring some food, smellier the better - tuna, shrimp, rotisserie chicken. If you can safely leave a door or window cracked open specially at night, the cat might walk back in. They can get locked by mistake in sheds garages and basements, ask neighbors to check and if they can leave doors open for a while. A frightened cat in hiding probably won’t come out when people are around.

Peter H.

2 months ago

petfinder.com/cats-and-kittens/information/lost-and-found-cats/top-10-tips-for-finding-lost-cats/

Sunny M.

2 months ago

Set and monitor a humane trap asap

Stuart K.

2 months ago

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Woo is Missing in Cayuga Heights, NY

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