My kitty ran away

huntr1

huntr1

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Dymphna said:
So we got the trap yesterday and kitty decided he'd rather starve than fall for it. So tonight, I've warmed up the cat food. Cats for miles around are going to be smelling it. Now I just hope I catch the right cat.
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Cat is too smart for his own good. He ignored the food in the trap. So, Boy put a bowl of dry food outside last night. Cat ate 1/2 of it when we were out for a Girl Scout meeting.
I guess we have an outdoor cat now. Gonna keep feeding him and hope he comes home.
Maybe he'll move back in if we get a lot of snow. Or maybe next spring boy can sit out in the backyard and hope his cat comes to him for some pets.
 
cattitude

cattitude

My Sweetest Boy
huntr1 said:
Cat is too smart for his own good. He ignored the food in the trap. So, Boy put a bowl of dry food outside last night. Cat ate 1/2 of it when we were out for a Girl Scout meeting.
I guess we have an outdoor cat now. Gonna keep feeding him and hope he comes home.
Maybe he'll move back in if we get a lot of snow. Or maybe next spring boy can sit out in the backyard and hope his cat comes to him for some pets.
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Are you sure it's him eating it? Cover the trap with a blanket or something and put something REALLY smelly in it..sardines or tuna..but do it in the early evening...
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

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This morning, kitty was on the front porch crying so pathetically, I thought he was caught in the trap. I got out of bed and went to the window, to see him run down the steps and out into the yard. He had been crying because the only food out there was in the trap, and he's not going in there.

Huntr scolded me. Told me not to go near the window until the cat had been crying at least 10 minutes because otherwise I'd scare him away again.

Kitty is out there now. He's crying. I am sitting where I can see the trap. I thought it was tripped, but turns out it's just a shadow that makes it look that way. But I went to the window before I realized it wasn't tripped. He was sitting there pathetically staring at me, crying.
 
cattitude

cattitude

My Sweetest Boy
Dymphna said:
This morning, kitty was on the front porch crying so pathetically, I thought he was caught in the trap. I got out of bed and went to the window, to see him run down the steps and out into the yard. He had been crying because the only food out there was in the trap, and he's not going in there.

Huntr scolded me. Told me not to go near the window until the cat had been crying at least 10 minutes because otherwise I'd scare him away again.

Kitty is out there now. He's crying. I am sitting where I can see the trap. I thought it was tripped, but turns out it's just a shadow that makes it look that way. But I went to the window before I realized it wasn't tripped. He was sitting there pathetically staring at me, crying.
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Put your other cats in a room....leave the front door open.. :shrug:
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

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cattitude said:
Put your other cats in a room....leave the front door open.. :shrug:
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I sent his favorite pet human (12-year old) out another door had him come up behind him. Then opened the front door....kitty bolted. Pet human stayed out a few minutes calling to him, while kitty cried from out in the yard.... gone now.
 
belvak

belvak

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Dymphna said:
I sent his favorite pet human (12-year old) out another door had him come up behind him. Then opened the front door....kitty bolted. Pet human stayed out a few minutes calling to him, while kitty cried from out in the yard.... gone now.
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Aww. Poor Kitty, and poor you guys!! Maybe he will decide to finally come in for Christmas dinner!!! :huggy:
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

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He's HOME!!!!!

He was clawing at the front door. Huntr opened it and after a few seconds, he ran in the house.
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

Loyalty, Friendship, Love
He's being such a PITA. You would think that he was somehow being kept away instead of refusing to return on his own.

He slept in our bed off and on...and off...and on...during the night. He's been following me around all over the place this morning...You'd think he'd been suffering from amnesia and suddenly got his memory back. :shrug:

He's a lot skinnier than he used to be. Not malnourished or anything, just leaner. The kitten looks huge in comparison, although kitten has the added fluff of being a long haired cat. I think kitten would still lose in a fight, but so far they have just been growling a bit and dancing around each other. They have yet to get into an all-out challenge.
 
huntr1

huntr1

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He's def. happy to be home. He's VERY vocal about it. Want's LOTS of attention.
As soon as I got up this morning, he was meowing for pets. Went into the bathroom with me, then instead of immediately running out as I tried to shut the door like he used too, he just curled up on the floor in the closet and watched me do my morning abulations and then when I left the bathroom, back on the bed he went.
 
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