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What to do about a lost cat?

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  • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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    Aqua Letifer
    wrote on last edited by Aqua Letifer
    #12

    HO LEE SHIT.

    Just after I posted this, I went into the kitchen and grabbed a handful of potato chips and just sort of walked around and went into the basement. It's been years since I've eaten potato chips at home and I seldom go into the basement—it's basically just storage and the carpet's got some weird shit in it that messes with my lungs if I'm down there too long—but I've been kind of beside myself and didn't get much sleep last night.

    Right fucking there he was, by the basement window.

    It's hard to describe but it's very hard to get from the front door to the basement window, even for a cat. You have to take a very long way around. I have no idea how or why he got there or even that he knew that was home. (I mean yeah, pets aren't stupid but even still.)

    I fucked up, though, and opened the door too quickly. He got startled and ran, so I chased him as best I could without scaring him further. Finally cornered him in a neighbor's bushes between their stoop and the side of their house. He was freaked the hell out and did not want picked up, but after a couple of seconds he calmed down enough for me to carry him. Poor guy was shaking pretty bad, though.

    My wife came downstairs, found me gone with the basement door open and a handful of potato chips on the ground and wondered what the hell happened.

    Please love yourself.

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    • MikM Away
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      Mik
      wrote on last edited by Mik
      #13

      Great news. What a relief to all. You're a good cat dad.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      • Catseye3C Offline
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        Catseye3
        wrote on last edited by
        #14

        !!!YAY!!!

        Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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        • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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          Aqua Letifer
          wrote on last edited by Aqua Letifer
          #15

          I really thought we weren't gonna find him. None of the food we've been leaving out has been touched, and he absolutely loves food. (And there are foxes, possums, raccoons and all manner of other woodland animals outside. Not that they'd attack him—he's still got his claws and he's a big boy—but if they aren't touching the food, and he's not nearby enough to know it's there...)

          And in all fairness to the HVAC guys, it's not like they knew he was an inside cat only, but still. Fuckin' hell what an unfun day and a half.

          Please love yourself.

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          • W Offline
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            Wim
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            #16

            Hope your cat will feel home again. My fat freaked out by the neighbour who was chopping down a huge tree. He was completely psychotic and never came home again, although he stayed in the neighbourhood. Eventually disappeared without a trace...

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            • MikM Away
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              Mik
              wrote on last edited by
              #17

              We always put ours in a room. Workers are never focused enough on those things.

              Daughter is here this week with her cat, so we’ve had some hissing going on.

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                Doctor Phibes
                wrote on last edited by
                #18

                Glad to hear it all worked out so well.

                10-15 years, ours (an outdoor cat) vanished. I'd given up after a week, when she returned, miaowing at me from the bushes. Unharmed but a lot thinner. I was initially alerted to her return by the dog doing these crazy twirls - he'd really missed her too.

                I was only joking

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                • George KG Offline
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                  George K
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #19

                  Good news, indeed.

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  • LuFins DadL Offline
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                    LuFins Dad
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #20

                    Yay!

                    The Brad

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                    • BorisB Offline
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                      Boris
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #21

                      Welcome home, brother.

                      But, for FUCK's sake don't do it again. It's a mean, cruel, and nasty world out there.

                      Your dad just about had a heart attack.

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                      • BorisB Boris

                        Welcome home, brother.

                        But, for FUCK's sake don't do it again. It's a mean, cruel, and nasty world out there.

                        Your dad just about had a heart attack.

                        Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                        Aqua Letifer
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #22

                        @Boris said in What to do about a lost cat?:

                        Welcome home, brother.

                        But, for FUCK's sake don't do it again. It's a mean, cruel, and nasty world out there.

                        Your dad just about had a heart attack.

                        I relayed the message. His response:

                        "Soz lol. Pets? Treats? You haz food?"

                        Freaking Maine coons, man.

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                        Please love yourself.

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                        • taiwan_girlT Offline
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                          taiwan_girl
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                          #23

                          @Aqua-Letifer That is great news!!!

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                          • JonJ Offline
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                            Jon
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                            #24

                            Great news man!

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                            • C Offline
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                              cathys
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                              #25

                              So glad to hear the happy ending!

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                              • JollyJ Offline
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                                Jolly
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #26

                                It's great that he's back!

                                Take Mik's advice...

                                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                • kluursK Offline
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                                  kluurs
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #27

                                  So happy to read that the family is all together again. It's so frightening when a loved creature is out on their own.

                                  Hopefully, no more escapes. I'm getting ads for GPS collars that can be put on our creatures - even better than Apple Air Tags. But, it probably would be overkill in your situation with an indoor cat.

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                                    Friday
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                                    #28

                                    Glad to hear the freaking Maine coon is back.
                                    It's awful when pets disappear and you don't know what happened to them.

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