I found my lost furry boy.

[Betsy Ross]

My cat disappeared Saturday afternoon. Searched for him on Sunday, posted signs around the neighborhood. Hubby and I started going door-to-door Monday night when I heard a faint howl. It was my cat stuck on a car port roof behind a house. If it hadn't been raining I doubt he would have howled loud enough to hear. I think he heard my husband and I talking and realized we were near.

Just some good news about a furry boy. Thought I would share.

[blogslut]

1. Welcome home, kitty

Poor thing. Glad you got him back okay. :)

[elleng]

2. GREAT NEWS, Betsy!

[Silver Swan]

3. I am glad to hear

about as good kitty story.

[VenusRising]

4. Yay, furry boy!

Glad you got him back safe and sound.

Those little fur babies sure can make us worry.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. That IS good news!!!

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My cats were always indoor cats and very RARELY were able to slip out. Once, in Pennsyvania,
I realized that I had been home for probably an hour and Graycat hadn't made an appearance
(she was an aloof cat -- abused by the previous owner's housemate -- but would come out and
sit NEAR me as long as I was home). I eventually feared that she had slipped out my apartment
door while I had been struggling to get groceries inside.
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I lived amongst a LOT of wooded land and anticipated a LONG search. I took two cans of tuna
and a can opener with me (a la Steve Martin in "Roxanne") to entice her to come out. I got
five feet outside my door in the drizzling rain and had JUST popped the first can's lid when
I head the faintest of mews.
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Having escaped to the outside world for the first time in YEARS -- in one whole hour, Graycat
had made it 5 feet to the nearest shrub where she had holed up in an attempt to excape the
misting rain.
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My bold adventurer.
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I scolded her and touched her nose as I held her to show my disapproval... then took her
inside and gave her half the can of tuna to show my joy at having found her.
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ALWAYS good to hear a "found" story. Thanks.
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[TuxedoKat]

10. That sounds like

typical behavior for a "lost" indoor only cat. When they inadvertently get out, they go into survival mode and do not go very far from home. They could be hiding right next to you under a bush but often will not come out when you call them because they are so terrorized at being in a strange environment.

Until my outdoor access cat ran away I never knew how differently cats (in door and outdoor access) behaved outside. Thank God for the internet for the wealth of information there. I had to find that runaway cat three times!

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. My last cat (a tuxedo cat named "NoName") was an indoor cat all her life...

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...but in the 8 years that I had her, she slipped out about half-a-dozen
times. The first two or three times, she was easy to catch -- she'd go
to the nearest patch of dirt and take a dust bath.
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She was like a Borg kitty -- each time she learned more and more about
how to elude capture. She would go off for hours and have who knows
how many great adventures (she wasn't much of a hunter), but always
come back by dinnertime.
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I live in the midst of the Sonoran desert (even the city of Tucson itself
is a PART of that, no matter how many paved roads we get), so I was
always freaked out the whole time she was gone. You can still see the
(now VERY) occasional coyote trotting along the side of the street or the
sidewalk (not to mention the nearby traffic) and she was uber-trusting
and pretty defenseless (she had her claws, but no REAL fight experience).
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A coupla times she slipped out and I had to go to work -- where I was
pretty useless because I was worried about her. She wouldn't be waiting
at the door when I got home. but if I sat on the front steps, she would
come strolling up within 2 or 3 minutes... teasing me by stopping every
five feet or so to just look at me for awhile.
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I was so happy that she was OK that I couldn't even bring myself to speak
to her disapprovingly.
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(signed) The Doorman
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[YellowRubberDuckie]

18. I love your cats.

And you are a great story teller...I'm not used to you not being silly. It is almost refreshing. :hug:

[LucySky]

6. this is great, Betsy!

there is nothing like that feeling you get when you find a lost pet who is unharmed. i'm very very happy for you!

[Arugula Latte]

7. Oh, whew!

So glad you found him!

[siligut]

8. Thank you for sharing

Always love a happy ending.

[zanana1]

9. I'm so happy for you and kitty!

I read somewhere that only 5% of all lost cats are ever found. What a lucky kitty to have "parents" like you! If you hadn't been out looking for him, he never would have been able to send you his little SOS.

[Brigid]

11. So the prodigal furball returns, eh?

So is he once again ruling the roost and demanding
homage from his human underlings?

[ellenrr]

13. glad you got him back

I remember a cat I used to have (since died of old age) disappeared for 48 hours. I traipsed all over the neighborhood, knocking on doors to ask if people had seen her.
I was devastated.
Then she just turned up on the porch, looking like, what is the fuss?

[david13]

14. My older cat used to go out, and spend the night out, mostly,

then come back about 4 a.m. like clockwork.
More than once I found him under someone's house. The houses here have only crawl spaces, and usually it's possible to get in down there somehow.
He and other animals always knew how.
However, one day he didn't come back til dawn. I finally found him stuck on a roof. He hasn't gone out since then, but now he is too old to even think about going out.
It's funny that his outdoor career ended on a roof, because he used to go from roof to roof on some of the houses. It was just that last one that stopped him from coming home. I think it was something that had chased him up there. And scared him too much to get down.
Sometimes they take up residence with someone else for a while. Sometimes they go back and forth, getting twice as much food, at the two houses.
dc

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. -5 points for misleading thread title

Glad you found your cat though.

[nolabear]

16. So glad to hear! Hugs for all y'all.

[applegrove]

17. Poor little thing.

[Curmudgeoness]

19. Glad you found him! Poor baby, in the rain!

At times like this I wonder why we think cats are all that smart! I had a cat who got out, we chased by another cat and took off. I was wondering all over the neighborhood calling him with no answer. Then a neighbor said they thought they had seen him go into their garage two days earlier. It was a really old garage with a wood floor that had holes in it. So I went in and called him and heard the most mournful cry from under the floor. Two days in there. Sigh.