Puyallup, WA Lost Female Cat, Elsie Is Missing

Char M.

6 months ago

Please don't go to Instagram comments... they are spam :( And please don't put kitty litter outside, it can draw in predators and keep kitty away :(

Sheri B.

6 months ago

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Cynthia T.

6 months ago

Maybe something here can help you to find Elsie. Finding lost pets (dog & cat) [these are copies of posts I have collected with very helpful information on finding lost pets] Written By Mr. Harry E. Oakes Jr. The most documented Search and Rescue expert in the world.: READ THIS PLEASE then REREAD IT. I get five pets back a week with this technique. HUMAN URINE SCENT TRAIL (Pee trail). Another method that works is to have the person who the pet is bonded with the most at home, urinate into a spray bottle. Mix the urine with water. This sounds weird, but this actually has brought home about 10% of our cases. Then the pet owner should go to the areas of possible sightings and spray a SCENT TRAIL of their urine back home. One squirt (from the spray bottle) every 10 feet. Use a route where your pet won’t get hit by a car. If the sighting is to far away from your home, then take your pee trail to the nearest home and talk with the home owner. Ask them to call you if / when your pet shows up in the area. ..................................................................................... IF YOUR PET IS FOUND HIDING or has been spotted. Bring some pet food and something that has your scent on it, like a dirty sock, shirt, or other piece of clothing that hasn't been washed. Put some of the pet’s food into the pieces of your unwashed clothing, and leave it in the immediate area. You may even leave your scent trail from this area to your home, if it’s close by. This may bring the pet out of its shock and draw it back to you. Leave a piece of soiled unwashed clothing, cut up in the size of a quarter, trailing home. One piece every 50 feet. ........................................................................... Often headed into the wind to investigate their new discoveries. All animals head into the wind. They smell food, water, shelter, danger from the air currents and thus they travel into the wind. So if your pet is missing, find out which way the winds were coming from the day your pet disappeared. Then search in that direction. ( I don't know if you want to add this, but the woman who posted it said her kitty was home within hours of her spraying her perfume on the sidewalk and on a path leading to her house) Also: FINDING INDOOR ONLY CATS WHO ARE LOST: BEFORE YOU LEAVE ON YOUR TRIP, make sure your pets are microchipped. On your next vet visit, have them check to make sure the chip scans, and check with the chip company to make sure your information is current. Consider buying your cat a collar & tag to wear even when inside in case they escape. The tag should have your name & cell phone #, and also indicate that there is a REWARD if found. Make a LOST poster (and a few copies) with your cat’s picture and your cell phone # and bring a few plastic sheet covers. IF YOUR CAT GETS OUT, know that indoor-only cats rarely travel far - they seek an immediate hiding place (under a rig or table, under brush, or in a shed) – and they hunker down out of fear. Immediately start searching around your rig as well as surrounding rigs with a flashlight (get on your hands and knees and shine the light underneath) - shake a treat bag and call its name and listen for a possible soft meow. (They are too scared to come out.) They can stay in this spot for days or weeks! Indoor-only cats RARELY come out during the day - they only come out after dark and into the wee hours of the morning. Be sure to check the surrounding trees as cats are often chased up trees and will sit up there for days and days. Open your door throughout the night and call your cat's name - often they will come running back in! Sit outside on your camp chair/picnic table and walk around your rig and surrounding area and call its name during the night. Leave the door ajar for it to get back in during the middle of the night. (Lock all your other pets away for the night!) Most cats come back in on their own between 2-4 am. Put all their smelly stuff (see below) near the door outside and inside as well as food (unless you are in an area that might attract wild animals). Hang LOST posters immediately and give one to everyone around you, as too many people just assume when they see a cat that it is a stray. If they know you are looking for your cat, they will be extra vigilant and want to help. Ask them to take a photo of any cats they see in your area –sometimes people think it is your cat, but it is not. Cats have an amazing sense of smell - put its litter box, bedding, your dirty clothes/shoes, and a tiny bit of strong smelling wet cat food (if attracting wild animals is not a problem) outside to attract your cat. You can trail their dirty litter from their box around your site. Try blowing a fan out the rig’s window so that your RV home smells waft through the outside air to attract them back. If those methods don’t work, set a Humane trap (like a Hav-A-Heart wire trap). Bait it with smelly cat food….this is sometimes the ONLY way to catch a scared indoor only cat AND IT WORKS! DO NOT GIVE UP! It could take days or weeks, but your cat is out there and you must keep up the search and spread the word with posters, speaking with neighbors, social media etc! Originally posted by Lambertville Animal Welfare in Lambertville NJ. and it was giving me by one of our members. Thank you Susan Shapiro Jennifer Walenski: I lost my cat while traveling from Michigan to Arizona last year. Two weeks later, I got her back. A bunch of professional rescues helped me find her. So I created a resource to help others do the same! Here it is! Please feel free to message me for more! I'm here to help! https://www.thebusstory.com/lostcat Please consider: this is good information but I do not recommend leaving food out unsupervised. For cats I recommend sitting outside in the evenings relaxing, chatting with friends and family. cats are very in tune with their owners and if the owner is anxious, the cat can sense it as danger and continue to hide. So when searching stay as calm and relaxed as possible. Susan Schmidt Try this too! https://www.missinganimalresponse.com/lost-cat-behavior/?fbclid=IwAR0LjRpk0_uUyIF1zm4RCpOLzi5GEiSLJ3IcKkG-TzaJ5qNDmi1pATHWY9Q&mibextid=7eu5hw Sound for calling cats out of hiding Here is the YouTube video to help draw your cat out. Hope it works. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ua7pVZOyPKY My neighbours already think I'm crazy, so i just walk up and down the street with it playing on loudspeaker and they come within 2 minutes Video with kitten calls https://youtu.be/VFkrdDukLGA ************** Texas only https://petsearchandrescue.com/texas-lost-pet-help/ ************* Not sure if this person is still available as this was posted 6/18/2020

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Teresa R.

6 months ago

Also post on Nextdoor app for the neighborhood missing. Ask neighbors to check surveillance cameras, Ring app, check garage, sheds, vehicles, anywhere she could accidentally be locked in. Put bright waterproof flyers up everywhere. Local Facebook Lost and Found Pets sites. File lost report with pictures at Humane Society, local animal control, veterinary offices. Let chip company know she is missing. Craigslist, be careful of scams. Hoping she is home soon. Be careful of the Instagram and Finder needing code scams. Do not give them your info.