Short version: One of our cats, Boots, a strictly indoor, four year old neutered male, darted out the door last Monday night on my wife. He's been living in the woods around us since then. One night, he was answering us from the woods, but wouldn't come. Yesterday, we saw him making his afternoon rounds and called, but again, he wouldn't come. He's being defiant in having his little adventure! Apparently, he has been sleeping on a neighbor's enclosed back porch on a couch, and stealing her Rottweiler's food, but she hasn't seen him for the past two nights, since I set up a trap to catch him on the porch. Another trap I've set up near the house hasn't caught him either. I've baited the traps with his favorite flavor of Fancy Feast. I'm not sure what else I can do to get him before the foxes out in the woods back behind the house do. Any suggestions?
I think he is protesting the fact that you moved away from here. :wink: Sorry, I don't have any ideas for you but I sure hope you get him back before the Rottie gets upset over the food deal!
I put a can of tuna in the traps when it's a particularly difficult cat to trap, not many cats will refuse a cheap can of tuna.. not the good albacore though (thats not fishy enough for them). Good Luck Oy!
We got him! The trap worked perfectly! He couldn't resist his Fancy Feast! He lost three pounds, is dehydrated, and very, very tired, but he'll be fine. The vet gave him his feline leukemia vaccine and some deworming medication just in case...
I think I would have gone ahead and shot it. What's the adage: .....love something set it free.........hunt it down and kill it 8)
Cats can be funny my son had one and when he moved away from home, the first time, he took the cat with him across town. Well, the cat ran out his apt. door and he thought he was gone. Almost a week later the cat turned up at my door, meowing to be let in. Guess he didn't like the move. :wink:
I know this sounds crazy and very "country-like"......but do you know anyone who has a beaver, opossum, raccoon, or fox trap. They are very sensitive and are great traps for catching a sneaky cat. We have had to do this same thing before a long time ago, we borrowed a trap and put some food in the back, not cat food, but something really good like leftovers! Hope you catch your cat!
