Richmond, CA Stray Cat Found Near Miller Knox Park

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HappyCatLady .

2 months ago

FOSTERING FOUND KITTY - Creating a Safe Haven 😻When you rescue a cat from the street, you are often their last hope for survival. Because many cats brought to shelters never leave, fostering them in your home is the greatest gift you can give while searching for their guardian or a new forever home. 😻The Bathroom: The Perfect Starting Point Don’t worry if your bathroom is tiny; cats actually prefer small, contained spaces when they are overwhelmed by a new environment. Keeping kitty in the bathroom ensures they are safe, easy to monitor, and away from the stresses of the rest of the house. 😻Setting Up the "Bedroom" Inside the bathroom, provide a litter box, food, and water. For their bed, a covered hard carrier is the most ideal setup. 😻The Setup: Place a soft blanket inside the carrier and d another blanket over the top, leaving only the front opening clear. 😻The Strategy: By making the carrier the only "hiding spot" in the room, the cat will learn to view it as their safe zone. This makes it much easier to transport them to the vet for a microchip scan or to their new home later on—they’ll already be comfortable inside! 😻Acclimation and Trust: I always keep new rescues in the bathroom for at least a few weeks until they are fully acclimated and ready to explore. Even spending just 30 minutes a day with them makes a world of difference. It helps them feel safe, allows you to get to know their personality, and ensures they are ready for the next chapter of their life. 😻 Thank you for opening your heart and home to a cat in need. You are changing a life that someone else may have failed. ❤️.❤️

HappyCatLady .

2 months ago

CLICK —-> TRAPPING / LURING YOUR CAT(how to) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SwaCTR1QrhlWg6mhq8roXmJHb6nauLCHB6v38UYCPRM/edit?tab=t.0 💖🐱 If kitty is skittish then consider humanely trapping kitty in order to get kitty scanned for a microchip and then consider fostering in a bathroom or playpen until guardian or furever home is found. I recently trapped a black cat with no tail on a busy street who was LOST FOR OVER 1 YEAR!!! I had no idea until I trapped kitty and scanned kitty for a microchip and luckily the contact info was recent!! - someone had posted on nextdoor about this cat, asking if anyone knew this cat. I didn’t want to wait due to a storm approaching and set up the trap next to my car and watched out the window…kitty came right after dark after 4 hours of waiting - I used stinky tuna based wet food as bait in the back of the trap and treats at the entry of the trap to get kitty interested in entering the trap. I placed a towel under the trap to stabilize it and put a piece of cut up yoga mat inside so kitty would not step on metal and that way I could put a few treats inside the trap too. WATCH THE VIDEOS BELOW - changed the way I trap! 💖🐱RENT/BORROW A HUMANE TRAP - Ask Nextdoor ‘cat owner’ group or other pet groups if someone can loan your a humane trap to lure kitty with stinky wet fish based food. You can rent from your local SPCA/animal shelter though it can take a few days to access so sometimes reaching out to cat groups on nextdoor and facebook will be faster. If you live in San Francisco I am happy to loan you one of my traps. Traps WORK well to lure scared cats out of hiding before Dawn or after sunset. 💖🐱I use a baby monitor → https://a.co/d/bcuK17m as part of the STAKEOUT to monitor the trap door opening non-stop livestream (or you can add your wifi camera to your iPad or mini-ipad and use the pad as your live stream monitor OR SIMPLY watch LIVE FEED from your wifi camera (mini blink works great!). When you set the trap, you place stinky fish based wet cat food as bait at the far back center of the trap BEHIND the ‘trip plate’. I would suggest getting the help with someone experienced. OR watch the training videos below. It’s crucial for you cat’s safety. You must monitor the trap at a close distance and/or watch the baby monitor live feed without distractions. 💖🐱NEVER never never never leave an active trap unattended/unmonitored for even 10 seconds. You can cause injury or death to a cat who is trapped and left inside for predators to attack. If you come across any stray cats coming to the food, please find out if kitty belongs to someone else by posting online ‘IS THIS YOUR CAT’ on facebook, nextdoor etc and take the cat to determine if micro-chipped. There are so many lost kitties and you would hope someone would do this for your kitty. 💥💥BEFORE TRAPPING: MUST-WATCH HOW-TO VIDEOS 1. Trapper Tips and Tricks! Presented by Neighborhood Cats : https://youtu.be/DtXyrD6w0bk 2.Trappers Tips & Tricks Presented by Neighborhood Cats and the Community Cats Podcast : https://youtu.be/aL6kSPjrBbQ LINK to Graphic showing Trapping Stakeout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vTnF0r1693YiOYLhqJGvf0KtQQ3X17Qy/view?usp=sharing I recently rescued a ‘stray’ cat who was either lost or abandoned . I started putting out wet food bowl when a neighbor spotted a cat on her RING camera at 3AM... I started putting wet food bowl 1/2 way inside an UN-SET TRAP to get kitty used to eating from inside the trap without any bad happening. I clamped the trap door open using zip ties so the door could NOT shut. I saw on camera that kitty went in after first being a bit hesitant. By night 3 she came early 530pm right after dark (they tend to come earlier once a consistent food source is found) The next night was time to TRAP. I SET the trap and put the food bowl all the way to the back of the trap (small bowl on night of trapping) and she was trapped within an hour! I scanned her for a microchip but she does not have one. I flyered every door (using painter's tape) and posted on every lamppost nearby. I had her FIXED, chipped and vaccinated at 9 lives in Redwood city - discounted rates! I kept her in the bathroom for a few weeks then moved her to a bedroom. I found an amazing human to adopt her! The best feeling ever! —----- SPAY AND NEUTER: If kitty isn't fixed …. the biggest gift you could give is to get kitty fixed❤️ 🙏 to prevent endless kittens being born outside to suffer and struggle and to prevent him from getting into horrible territorial fights that are often lethal . Thank you for being part of the solution..so many need our help...we do our best one kitty at a time. ❤️ damia LOW COST SPAY AND NEUTER: OAKLAND --> https://icraeastbay.org/resources/local-resources/spayneuter/

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HappyCatLady .

2 months ago

🐱💜Dear kind compassionate neighbor. I ADORE people like you who look out for the often ignored lost/stray roaming kitty. Thank you for helping to save this kitty’s life! Kitty is most likely very hungry & dehydrated. ((Cats that haven’t eaten for days and barely eaten for weeks will still ‘APPEAR’ OK - fur is very deceiving and it takes a long time for cats to look ill.)) Please continue to provide water and food. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.🐱💜We are often a cat’s last hope after another human failed them. 🐱 Lost cats REMAIN very near their last residence …Unfortunately many kitty guardians give up WAY TOO SOON on the search assuming kitty is never coming back or deceased (not realizing how close they remain and/or sometimes they're trapped in a garage etc) Kitty could belong to an elderly person who lives alone and doesn't use the internet or know how to find kitty (or can't physically get around well). And sadly, MANY cats are born in backyards due to guardians who aren’t fixing their own cats that they allow outside and some of the sweetest cats get abandoned….and need our help 🙏 🐱 MOST (if not all) of the neighbors that live on your block - will NOT see any of these posts on pawboost, nextdoor or facebook. So Informing your neighbors in person is KEY. The neighbors around your block and across the street are exactly who need to be informed via FLYERS and/or knocking on doors and asking. THE BEST THING TO DO To find out if kitty has a guardian: Get kitty into your bathroom where it's safe and contained and Knock on your neighbors doors..someone might know where kitty lives .. Food bowl water bowl, litter box and blanket or ideally a covered carrier can be used as a little hideaway for kitty - or even a cardboard box turned to it’s side and partially covered and blanket/towel inside :) 🐱💜 SCAN KITTY FOR MICROCHIP: Try winning kitty’s trust with food and pets and gently Get kitty safely inside a SECURE cat carrier and get kitty scanned for a microchip at any vet (Free) or shelter (Free) hopefully kitty has a microchip with guardian’s up to date contact information. TIP: Always Cover the cat carrier with a blanket once kitty is inside and during travel it will help calm them. 📌 HOW TO GET A CAT INSIDE A CARRIER (Butt-first) 🐱place hard open carrier behind the kitty and give kitty treats or food in front of kitty ,gently pull kitty’s shoulders and body BACK toward the opening…very gently! Kitty will pause then walk backwards into the carrier! 👏🏼 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l5eJVen9SC9Zm7D3LCr-CZlsmAnl0_cL/view?usp=sharing If no microchip (or unable to get kitty into carrier) please bring kitty inside (where it is safe from coyotes into a bathroom or bedroom or closet or inside an extra large playpen: https://a.co/d/7EUE4E2 ) and print FLYERS… 🐱💜PRINT “FOUND- IS THIS YOUR CAT” FLYERS (Download Template/s below) Post up Flyers around your block on both sides of every lamppost - and distribute flyers door to door around the block and across the street to all your neighbors . KNOCK ON DOORS and ask if anyone knows where this sweet kitty lives... leave a note or FLYER or MINI-FLYER if not home ( use that blue painters tape to adhere directly to front doors or mailboxes so they are noticed. (don’t place mini flyers inside mailboxes they will get lost) You want to cover ALL possibilities. Spreading the word IN PERSON and online/

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Yvonne E.

2 months ago

It’s scary to see a lost cat with a band around its neck. It could out grow the band depending how long it’s been lost - my sister found a cat like that and if she didn’t trap it and take it in it would have a slow death :( sorry to be a downer but if you can trap it that would be good.

Ri M.

2 months ago

Thanks for caring about this wonderful and beautiful 😻 kitty cat! Please 🙏 post on Nextdoor and ring apps. It will send your posts to your neighbors in 2-3 miles radius. Much better chance of getting a response. These are two free apps. They use your location to make a localized community. All the people near your location receive the posts, no one else. Nextdoor is kinda like neighborhood facebook. Ring app is for the ring doorbell cameras but you don’t need a camera to make an account. Almost all my neighbors are on it. They use the neighbors tab on ring app to post everyday porch pirate thefts, coyote sightings, cat sightings or lost cats information. God bless the kind people like you who take care of poor cats in need. 🤗 😢 So easy for everyone else to ignore them.

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