Reunited: BLACK Cat Male

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2018-11-05 19:12 DogLostScruffy Dog - Central Team Volunteer

Update from owner - "Emmett returned home after a month, we think he was locked in somewhere as vet said he had not eaten the whole time he was missing"

2018-02-21 11:28 Omie

ive contacted all the local vets and cats protection and the council. Our local council scans any deceased animals and keeps them for 7 days until they can be collected, Emmett is chipped so I think they would have made contact if he had been found that way. I am considering hiring a professional lost pet search team to look for him but it is very expensive at nearly £2000 for a ten hour search. I feel like im loosing all hope. Im searching for him and calling him every day and night.

2018-02-21 09:58 nalamissing

try not to loose hope. Mocha has just been found after 4 months. I would widen the area you have posters up and stick flyers through as many doors as possible. Have your rung your local council to ask if they have had any bodies picked up? Also contact your local branch of cats protection, they will put him on their web pages. Also contact all the local rescues...

2018-02-21 07:46 Omie

thank you. I don't think he would have gotten in to a van because he went missing at night so I feel this is unlikely he is also very timid and doesn't go to strangers or go near cars on his own accord. If he has got in to a van and been driven somewhere there is no way of me knowing where that could have happened or where he may have gone to.

2018-02-20 23:39 Hasi'smum

Hi, many cats that go missing have got into a delivery van or car and hitched a lift to their next port of call. Was there a delivery van around that day? Ask neighbours. Then call the delivery company and ask where the vehicle went next. Most vans use gps now and can say exactly where they went that day. A local cat got into a van and jumped out at a care home a couple of miles away after medications were delivered there. A friend noticed a poster on their gates and told the cat's owners. He had been regularly fed by the care home people and they were actively looking for his family. Really hope your cat comes home soon, thinking of you

2018-02-14 09:39 nalamissing

I know it is torture but most cats do come back. Have you left dirty litter or hoover contents in the garden? Contact the local branch of cats protection. I was given these tips when my Nala went missing:

Missing cat tips x

Firstly, check your own home, garden, and the immediate vicinity THOROUGHLY. Cats seldom stray far, but some of them have a positive genius for getting shut in sheds, garages, cars, greenhouses. Check also any standing water-butts, ponds or similiar.

Check under all bushes, deckingand in gardens, using a long stick and a torch if necessary. Knock on neighbours doors and ask them to check sheds/garages/outhouses WHILE YOU WAIT in case your cat has got shut in (cats are incredibly inquisitive!). Ask neighbours to prop open doors so if your cat is scared and hiding s/he doesn't miss the opportunity to get out if the door is only opened briefly.

Your cat recognises the smell of home. Spread hoover contents around the outside of your house. Put your cat’s dirty litter try outside too. Hang dirty washing on your line, put smelly trainers in your garden with any cat bedding. Anything that smells familiar will help guide your cat home if s/he has lost their scent.

Go out looking at night to check, when it is quiet and there is less traffic. Work your way back towards home as you call them, so not to inadvertently lead themfurther away from home. Take a powerful torch. Scatter used cat litter outside and leave out food. If possible, make sure there is a way for your cat to get back in the house even if you are asleep (eg, wedge open the cat flap).

Next check all the surrounding streets, again checking under bushes and in undergrowth. If there are fields/woods nearby, thoroughly search these too.Check any empty houses as cats can get through the smallest of spaces.

KEEP doing all these things as when scared cats go into survival mode and may not even respond to their owner at first.

Make posters/fliers and put them up anywhere and everywhere (eg stuck to telegraph poles and similar). Stick one in the back window of your car. Local shops, post office, pub, local primary schools (small children are incredibly observant) anywhere really. Ask local vets to display a copy. Speak to local postman and dog walkers to ask them to TELL you if they see your cat. Consider printing off enough fliers to put them through people’s letterboxes down your street and in the area. Not everybody is on social media. If there are any distinctive physical conditions or characteristics about your cat, make sure you feature them prominently in any fliers, online appeals, etc.

Alert all vets in the area and give them a description of your cat. Ask local vets to display a poster of your missing cat. Even if your cat is chipped, not all vets routine scan for a chip!!! Chips can also fail or migrate to anywhere in your cat. Ring the RSPCA/cats protection and any rescues in the area as any of these places may end up with him so best to give them a description too. Again, not all rescue centres routinely scan a cat for a chip

See if the local paper runs free lost and found pets ads. Check the found and make sure your pet is listed as lost. Again, not everybody is on Facebook.

Use Facebook (set to public and tag yourself in your kitty’s photo so you can follow up any leads from subsequent shares) to share your missing cat. It is ESSENTIAL to include a clear photo, colour/breed/distinguishing features, where s/he has gone missing from (district, town and county) and when your cat was last seen. Say if your cat is chipped

Last edited: 2018-02-14 09:40:04 by nalamissing

2018-02-14 08:20 Omie

Hi Janie I have checked the shed in our garden a number of times. I have posted leaflets and put up posters local to where we live. Ive been out every day and night looking for him calling him and taken biscuits with me. I'm not sleeping I am worried so much, I don't know what else to do. Its like he has vanished from all view, no one seems to know anything x

2018-02-13 20:23 Unknown

When checking outbuildings ALWAYS take a SECOND LOOK, as some cat especially if time will hide in or behind an object within

2018-02-13 20:20 Unknown

Presume all outbuildings searched at the time he went missing? Empty contents of the hoover onto the garden as his scent will be there. Put his unwashed blanket into a clean continer, along with your scent too. Leave in the garfden in a sheltered spot.or hang on the washing line if dry; used towels too. Wipe his scent on your garden fences, gates, doors too; anything ledinmg up to the garden. Try a squeaky toy as it may attract his attention. Walk around the area, hokding an object with his scent on, and rattle some Dreamies, Someone may be feeding him (Common problem) Poster around the area, and also post flyers through doors too. And ask around, especially those with children as tney can be vert observant. Paws xd.

2018-02-13 18:46 DogLostJulie - Area Co-ordinator - Surrey & South London

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2018-02-13 18:26 DogLostLisa P - Regional Co-ordinator, Central

Shared on FB to Doglost Central & tweeted x

2018-02-13 18:06 Omie

Thank you so much Jayne x

2018-02-13 18:04 DogLostJayne - Founder Doglost.

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