Boston, MA Lost Male Cat, Zion Is Missing

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Ann E.

3 days ago

Helpful guidance: https://www.charlesriveralleycats.org/gethelp/lost and https://www.mspca.org/programs-resources/lost-and-found-pets/ Also, people on Nextdoor are often recommending Nadja, a volunteer from The Cat Connection, to help with the search.

Elizabeth N.

3 days ago

THIS WORKS: Get canned mackeral (available anywhere, including Walmart) and put it as high as you can reach on trees on your property. The scent will waft in the breeze and will serve as a beacon to let your cat know where home is. Simultaneously, crook your door open (and leave the window open, too) at night and sit by the door. Cats are known to return home this way. Your cat is lost and doesn't know where home is. Please act immediately and don't give up. Leave water and wet food (wet food for hydration) outdoors and change both often. I hope your cat returns asap. ❤️

Gary M.

4 days ago

Drag scent trails… He may be hiding under a porch, a shed, or a car, behind bushes, or in a wooded area. Go out late at night with a flashlight that might reflect against his eyes, and call him gently. Or shake a bag of treats, sometimes better than your voice to attract a cat that’s scared. Create scent trails on the grass and ground leading up to your home (or to a trap, ideally monitored with a trail cam, so you can respond quickly when the cat is in the trap). Get a towel and rub it with your dirty laundry, blankets, socks, or anything else with the scent of home. (Do not use kitty litter.) Tie a rope to the towel and drag it from the areas where you think the cat might be, creating scent trails leading to your house (or the trap). You won’t smell the scent on the towel or the ground, but the cat will. (If you use a trap, load it with a little cat food, chicken or tuna, enough to attract the cat from the trail that leads up to it. Rely on the scent trails to get your cat to the trap.) Rain and snow will wash away the scent trails, so you’ll have to drag again afterwards. Also, renew the trails every couple days. Try to remain patient and hopeful. Some cats only show up after many days or even weeks. Important: . Never leave a trap unattended, always keep an eye on it, checking it every 1/2 hour in person or with a trail cam. Position the trap close to where the cat escaped or was last seen. . Trail cam photos and videos are marked with time stamps, helpful to know if and when the cat shows up but doesn’t go into the trap. . Post flyers in the area with a picture of your cat and your contact information. . Even if you don’t have a trap or a trail cam, scent trails leading to your home can work.

Patti R.

4 days ago

LOST CAT OUTDOORS Catnip and your scent outside ASAP! - You need to search personally as neighbors won’t search as thoroughly as you would. Bring catnip, treats and a flashlight, even in daylight, it’s very dark under porches etc. Ask to go in yards, not only beside you but in back, on the next street behind you and across your street and on the next street behind them. I found my neighbors cat in the very yard next door to his own house. Although the owner had been calling and walking around the blocks calling, he stayed hunkered down in a dense garden when I found him too afraid to come out. You need to get down and dirty and search under everything. YOU MUST BE CONSISTENT & DILIGENT - Sprinkle LOTS of catnip by entrance and stairs s/he went out. Down to sidewalk. Be generous. DON’T PUT CAT LITTER OUTSIDE. I DON’T RECOMMEND PUTTING FOOD OUTSIDE UNLESS YOU CAN OBSERVE CLOSELY! - If you have predators, such as coyotes, only put food outside when you can actually watch. Dont leave it out overnight or unattended. Raccoons and skunks are pretty harmless but you probably don’t want to attract them. - if you can sit there watching: Put a scoop of real tunafish or rotisserie chicken (not catfood) in a dish, and put it be the door. Preferably, if you can do so safely, leave the door open slightly and place the food dish inside. Or in a nearby window you can leave open enough for cat to climb back inside. If this is not possible, try to shelter it near where cat went out if you have a porch or something. - Hang UNLAUNDERED (not cleaned) pieces of your clothing, like the shirt you wore today, dirty socks, slippers, or the pjs you worn last night, around shrubs, railings - the scent will drift. Also inside for cat to snuggle up on and for your scent. -Use a flashlight (even in daylight) to search under schrubs, porches (bend down and look way under with the light in the dark corners) sheds, under grills, pool decks, garages, basement windows, under cars, up in trees. -Ask your neighbors if you can go into their yards and search too. They may not search as thoroughly as you would. At night, the eyes will glow. -Knock on doors, talk to people face to face, showing them a picture, tell them where you live. This goes a long way. Ask people that walk your neighborhood, dog walkers, postman/woman. - [ ] -Put flyers on telephone poles. Be sure to weatherproof them, You can get sheet protectors (these are plastic sleeves like yiu would find in a photo album, that fit a regular size piece of paper 8 1/2” x 11”) at the dollar store.

Iren D.

4 days ago

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