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Cat disappears for days at a time.

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B9exchange Sun 11-Oct-20 14:00:12

I'm not sure what you can do except perhaps provide a really tasty treat whenever the cat does show up at night in the hope it will remember and come looking for it. Cats will decide who they want to live with.

Ours are completely dim and would disappear under the nearest oncoming car, so they stay in. They try to be escape artists, but are used to it now, and on the rare occasions they do get out, don't know where to go and can be enticed back in again.

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Jane10 Sun 11-Oct-20 13:56:24

It's very hard to stop a cat wandering if it wants to. DD is visited by a large Bengal cat. Her own cat just seems to let it eat his food and wander about the house at will. DD even found it relaxing on the upstairs landing in the middle of the night. For all we know it could be in the house all night. If they lock the cat flap he batters it and almost rips it open. They've made contact with the owner by posting a photo in a local Facebook page. She was apologetic but doesn't know what to do. DD is a real cat lover and would hate to be mean to this cheeky visitor but has just accepted that he's a part time part of the family now and at least he doesn't hurt her own cat which he easily could. Cats eh?!

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Gill33 Sun 11-Oct-20 13:45:29

My daughter has a lovely friendly cat who is 18 months old. She started to disappear for days at a time and we didn’t know where she was going. She had a litter of kittens in May and stayed home all the time with them and didn’t stray at all. My daughter decided to keep two of the kittens and started to let them out in her garden with the Mum.
All was well for a few weeks and then one evening she and the two kittens didn’t come home.
The next day I went over and decided to visit some of the house and show them a photo of the Mum. The houses back onto her garden and I showed them a photo of Mum and some details. Most people I spoke to said that they had seen the Mum occasionally but not the two kittens.

After a while I went back to my daughter’s house and within an hour had a phone all to say they’d all been seen on a neighbours conservatory roof.
We went round and the man in that house got a ladder to get them down. He then said they often come round as he thought the Mum was a stray. Mum is in beautiful condition and doesn’t look like a stray at all. He gave us his phone number in case we needed to contact him again.
It transpires that Mum has been going round there and that’s why she kept disappearing and now has decided to take the kittens too.
Mum still keeps going there and doesn’t come back for days and he rings to say he’s got her and that she comes in through his open windows or doors. My daughter asked if they feed her to which a vague answer was ‘Well my son may have’. She asked him not to feed her and could he put her out early evening to come home.
She is still going round there and is obviously being fed as she never returns hungry.
I’m not sure if there’s anything we can do about this situation as you can’t really stop a cat from wandering. She has nice life at home. My daughter isn’t out all day so it’s not as though she wants the company.
The man is very vague at times about this cat but my daughter just would like her back home especially at night. Any suggestions please?

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