Have you ever thought your cat was missing...

Steffi747

Have you ever thought your cat was missing only to find them snuggled up somewhere warm oblivious to your frantic searching?

We have a 5 month old kitten called Marble. Today she went missing for 1 and a half hours. We were having a new log burner fitted today, but she was safely out of the way upstairs. After the workmen left I couldn't find her :eek:

I was panicking searching for her. She could only be in the loft (left open after the leak test was performed) or she had escaped outside. It was dark and she has never been outside. I was searching both the loft and the street in the dark for her. I also checked everywhere else in the house.

In the end I was crying at the thought of her lost outside in the dark. Finally OH comes home and finds her within 5 minutes. She was snuggled up on the wardrobe upstairs asleep oblivious my frantic searching, crying and calling her name

They do like to get you worried once in a while!

meritaten

Yes - a few months back all the family came to lunch and 'someone' left the front door open! now Barnes is eager to escape out front! so I went to get him in from back garden for HIS lunch and couldn't find him, he wasn't in living room, dining room or in his bedroom. had the family out searching the street and ............................granddaughter found him in front bedroom where the kids had been playing! phew! obviously someone had let him in and he had gone up to join the kids, who then came down for lunch, and later I didn't even think of him going in front bedroom as he never goes in there!!!!

gettingready

One of mine was sleeping INSIDE the sofa.

Searched whole flat and all estate where I live. Came back in, spoke to my dog "Zara - where is Fred?".. Zara promptly flattened herself on the floor and dived under the sofa - Fred made a hole in the lining under the sofa and happily slept there.

Should have asked the dog first before making an idiot out of myself running around the estate in my jam jams shouting Fredddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

pinkteapot

We have reclining sofas - the leather on the rear is like a big flap that velcros down. When we first got our cat and he was skittish, he kept getting inside. We had to check he wasn't there before reclining! :eek:

A few months ago, I had a very upset call from a friend who thought she'd lost one of her cats while they were staying at her parents during house renovations. They'd been calling kitty and shaking food for four hours, inside and outside the house. They then found kitty, sound asleep in a tiny nook underneath a desk that they didn't even know was there.

They can get into spaces you really wouldn't think of!

tea_lover

Yep - I've spent hours looking for mine before now (inside a locked house). Still have no idea where he was hiding.

Deep_In_Debt

I remember years ago searching frantically outside for a few hours and calling in the street, only for 'her ladyship' to emerge from the airing cupboard! She was very vocal for about 5 mins and then went back in to the airing cupboard. She'd never been in the airing cupboard up to that point and I didn't think she knew about it.

I reckon she had woken up to tell me to shut up so she could go back to sleep again!

GwylimT

Yes, although I found her in the stud wall! The hole was smaller than my fist and she couldn't turn round so we had to make a nice big hole in our newly plastered wall!

I often find her in the washing basket asleep, the top is a flap so you don't notice her as the lid is still on.

kazwookie

Been there had this.

Extended family same to stay, cat took fright at so many in the house and vanished.

We all did the normal stuff, knocking on doors, searching the house, about twenty times, asking kids out playing, walking around the roads / paths etc for 1 and a half days, asking dog walkers and so the list goes on.

I got to work, and get a call from OH to tell me cat is back, 'where was he?'

I get told one the extended family was in the kitchen and heard a mieow, looked down and saw a small head, he had been hiding under/ adjacent to the dishwasher. There is a small amount of kick board misssing, he found it and had hidden in there.

Now if he is missing, I get a torch, get on my hands and knees and see if he is in this hole. 99% of the time he is. Saves me a whole load of stress.

The hole in kick board stays, at least I now know where he is when he is scared.

Slinky

I work from home. One afternoon I'm sitting in my office looking at my cat sat on the equivalent room's windowsill in the house opposite......... they were on holiday and my neighbour was looking after their cat. She got him out of their house, he went missing again, although my neighbour assured me she'd searched the opposite house, he didn't come home. At 6am the following morning I'm knocking on my neighbour's door, pointing at my cat on the windowsill...... it turned out 'searching the house' hadn't involved going upstairs.




I don't think it's the first time he'd got shut in a neighbour's house, he was out all night one night and some people down the road said they thought they'd seen a furry flash go through their house and out the door!

Pollycat

I 'lost' a kitten years ago, searched high & low then heard a faint meowing, tracked it down to the bedroom and found her - wide-eyed and ears-back - in the drawer under the bed.
I'd been putting clean towels away and not noticed her creep in.

My last old boy used to play 'where can I sleep next?' - we never knew where he was until we rattled his biscuit box and he came thundering into the kitchen.

madrhino

We got a new kitten when I was a teenager. Second day we had him my brother had left the front wide open and we couldn't find him. I was wandering the streets shouting his new name, and he didn't know us yet so why would he come to me. My mum called me back to the house. He was emerging from behind the fridge, meowing because he was now hungry. He obviously went to that safe place because he didn't know us. Such a tiny space, he never went there again