Grand Rapids, MI Lost Female Cat, Patches Is Missing

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Mark W.

4 weeks ago

Look under houses in the crawl spaces

Jamie L.

4 weeks ago

You can purchase a trap from Tractor Supply or Home Depot or Amazon or see if you can borrow or rent one from a local rescue or TNR group. Put a piece of your clothing with your scent on it inside and some wet food and set the trap and cover it with a towel (they feel more secure hidden) and monitor it.🙏❣️ remember kitties are naturally nocturnal, so they will hide during the day and move at night time looking for a food source or trying to get home. This is when most of us are sleeping.That's why the trap is ideal. Monitor it very frequently and early in the morning. If you catch a critter go ahead and release it and wash the trap and reset. They leave a smell behind which may deter your baby from going in. If you catch another kitty, you can always take it to a local vet or shelter for a free chip check and you might be able to help return someone else's missing baby home.♥️ also get a big sign in the front yard so in case someone does have or sees this baby and does not see this post, they can contact the owner that way. Also get lots of signs posted in the neighborhood. Keep checking on your local county FB group pages. You can search the group by "cat" to see all the cat posts only💗

Jeannie W.

4 weeks ago

Here are a few things you can try. Cats usually don’t go far. They just hide well. Cats are very active at dusk and dawn. So first of all you can go out and call for him. You can put his food/water, and lots of cat nip outside your house to help draw him back. Also, put your cat's bedding that has your cat's scent on it outside to attract your cat back to your home. Also putting your own unwashed clothes or bedding out . Cats run on scent and this is highly effective in luring your cat back home .PetMD backs this up, can help lure the cat back home, as it's a comfortable and familiar smell. Shake the treat/food container outside. Check garages, especially under porches and decks,dense bushes, etc. Get one of those strong flashlights they will catch a cat's reflective eyes two blocks away and save you tons of time!!! Do not leave the food out overnight as it will attract other animals that can scare the kitty away. Go to your neighbors and let them know your kitty got out and give them your contact info. Walk your neighborhood and talk to people as you can. Take a flyer TO your local vets office and shelter a face is better than a thousand words of description and check every couple of days in person if possible Sometimes it can take weeks or months to find your kitty. Also post with Pawboost and Sam the Parrot about your missing cat. Many times cats are found within a couple hundred feet of their homes. Post fliers around your neighborhood with your phone number that people can call day or night. And talk to your mail carrier. They see lots of animals. If they see a strange kitty around, they may recognize it as yours. Make sure you call local animal shelters, etc Best time to look is between 1-6AM Get a humane trap ASAP! This it's the best chance at retrieving your cat. Line it with newspaper. The ONLY food you leave out should be in that trap. Do not leave the trap set for long periods of time unattended, especially overnight. The most importantly do not give up hope! Open your garage door a little. Don’t put the litter box out. 🙏🏻Also take a flashlight out at night and look in and under things to see if you can see the kitty’s eyes.

4 weeks ago

🍀Helping? read this All of the interactions we have with posts gets them seen by more people, even just looking at it! But likes are better, and not just likes on the post, but on every reasonable comment to! Simply liking a comment later will bring someone back, they may comment again or like other comments! or even share! the care and heart reactions help even more. But commenting is better and sharing is best! If you do make a post or share, make sure all of your posts and shared posts are set to public AND open to public comment.. Often they are not open.. It's a - separate - setting In the 3 dots at the top right of each post. Editing is also in the 3 dots in the top right of every post. Update posts that way, so that the new posts don't dilute the points Facebooks algorithms use to decide if a post is popular (so they show it to more people) .. Many group posts are open to public comment. but often the posts people make on their OWN Facebook profiles pages wall are not.. Sometimes they aren't public at all! Also, If you do make or share a post, or its contents.. Make ONE post in a group, or your wall. Then share that one post to everywhere.. Do not make multiple posts. Share one post to multiple places. It makes a HUGE difference in how the social media algorithms collect and stack 'points' for more and more views.. And it also makes communication easier because it's all linked together very tightly to one post. This is especially true when its not your post or your created content. people who created the content will have no way to benefit from or see the comments unless you keep them in the loop. Be sure to check your message for message requests, even check the spam box.. they are in a different part of the message system, look for red dots on symbols and or numbers next to some symbols in the top left areas of the direct massaging part of Facebook, the dots are on the bottom right of the symbols, it will say message requests in the options of those symbols. There are often MANY groups for every city AND county, so be sure to post that one post in all of them. you can copy the link to the other posts and paste them in the other posts comments to help keep all of them connected and lessen the need for you and others to repeat things. Especially if you already made multiple separate posts.. Many of the best groups look like "Lost and found pets of XXXXXXX country" Or lost and found pets of xxxxx city... I hear comments longer than 5 words are ranked much higer than smaller comments. Not sure about that one need to look it up Unfortunately Making posts fully public can increase the risk of sćammĕrs, (mostly for lost and found posts) and abusive strangers.. so be on guard for suspicious activity. Never leave the post to go talk in private (in dm or pm) unless you are VERY aware of śćàm tactics.. Once they have people in private conversations they can sćăm without the administration or others stopping and banning them.. and NEVER send anyone ANY codes.. ALL "ìńśťagram "help" are sćàms as well as almost all dŕòñė sěrvćes.. (Had to spell if funny or most groups would ban me to😅 .. sigh) For lost friend posts, it is in general best to just ignore all links and such given by strangers on posts. Instead go to offical pages like big lost and found groups and rescues and shelters pages and ask them directly who you should contact. And what may be just as important: if you show gratitude to the people who help you, they are more likely to help more, and not only will they help you more, but they may help many others who will need help in the future.. ....we dont do this for the thanks, BUT IT SURE HELPS!! we have hard days to, depression is very common in these paths.. So please help keep everyone going when you have the time and energy and such to do so.. Thank you for helping everyone 🙏🏻

4 weeks ago

Fostering? Often systems and people will pay for ALL the food and tools you need to foster! They even often pay for neutering, vaccinations, and flee and worm medications! Temporary fostering should be a really good way to help. Many shelters and rescues agree! So many more people would help if it was only for a day or 2 or 3 maybe a week at most, for most.. And i bet many of them will become long term fosters and even adopt them. to make it work we would need a local and semi local list of temporary fosters; how long and how often and when they are likely available.. then we can call them on short notice to go pick them up or meet or be ready for a drop off.. that and linking them all to the resource networks so they can get supplies they need donated. Many ai tools can help organize that very well now. Not sure if any free ones can, but id say its a 99% chance a free one will work wonders. That and we need to get the word out about it.. they cant sign up if it doesnt exist and or they dont know about it. Also we need to expand the laws against sėlling people for profit... ..and buýing them.. Rescues and shelters are the ONLY ones that should be able to sęll people -> to rescue them.... .. and laws against non medically necessary surgery or body modifications. Anyway, Ultimately the best way to spend cash on these problems is to support neutering programs and get your friends to take their's in.. every dollar spent on that saves 1000s of dollars in just a year or 2.. therefore saving many more lives than endlessly donating on the rescue end ever will😔 ..Rescues and shelters still need help obviously, but the best way to lower the amount of cash they need, is to lower the amount of "unwanted" people they have to help.. Thank you for helping spread the ideas🙏🏻

Terrie S.

4 weeks ago

Walk around calling your cat as you always do. Look under bushes and in hiding places. Look at dawn and dusk with a flashlight to catch the glare of your cat's eyes. Leave garage door and lanai partially open if possible. Your cat will try to get back inside ..most likely at night. Use a trap...The only way to find his way home.or to the trap is by smell. Use some of your used clothes, put them outside and around the trap. A friend of mine used her shirt and dragged it through the neighborhood. Her cat found the smell and followed it home. It is all about the smell. You can also cut a shirt of yours into small small pieces and leave a scent trail back to the trap. I read a few days ago that a lady put out a trace with the old litter throughout the neighborhood. It worked. Her cat came home! Use the litter to lead your cat to the trap. Also try to distribute flyers throughout that neighborhood...as many as you can ( 3 miles radius at least). Check shelters in person...don't just call. Put battery operated trail cameras outside. Your cat might show up in the middle of the night. When you know the time you can wait for for your cat and slow blink to make contact. NEVER GIVE UP! I read once that you can put a chair outside and cover it up with a blanket and the cat can jump up and hide under the blanket and feels safe. They said you should put one of your shirts under the blanket and food and water next to the chair. It might be worth a try to put up a chair

Terrie S.

4 weeks ago

All the above advice + Make sure you go to the shelters, animal control, humane societies & every rescue you can think of in person and check for your dog or cat as often as you can. Don’t rely on just calling to check for them. The shelters are understaffed and overwhelmed; they may not recognize your dog or cat from a description over the phone. Also, put up flers & post on Love of Louie, Pawboost, next door, Ring App, etc., etc

Brenda B.

4 weeks ago

Go outside with a flashlight and call her name you will be able to see her eyes. Look under everything! And please keep us posted.

Marilyn H.

4 weeks ago

Hopefully your name and contact info is on her collar.

Dianne J.

4 weeks ago

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