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**edgray** · 10-25-2010, 01:55 PM

I've just moved apartment and I let my cats out to get acquainted to the new place and they've vanished. Totally gone. Fourth floor apartment, closed windows, closed door. And they've vanished.

I am gravely concerned.

**chrishirst** · 10-25-2010, 06:24 PM

With cats being what they, they have probably found somewhere they get fed.

**Giselle** · 10-25-2010, 10:13 PM

Oh my, how many hours have they been gone? Hopefully they will come back....

**scorpionboerne** · 10-25-2010, 10:22 PM

Cats will be cats!

Steph

**Jim Gillum** · 10-25-2010, 11:05 PM

Cats come home...

**athand** · 10-26-2010, 02:18 AM

hopefull they will come back :$
this are the 1st i have ever had they are one month adn a half old
:x

**edgray** · 10-26-2010, 03:49 AM

thanks everyone. I went to the pub and when I came back the were sat on my bed!

As it turns out, there's a hole in the kitchen where they can get behind the units and into the building structure (it's a very old block, you see). So all that worry for nothing. Little monsters.

**Giselle** · 10-26-2010, 11:21 AM

That's great news, the little rascals! They really did get acquainted with their surroundings!

**Mystical Pippin** · 10-27-2010, 03:39 AM

Gosh Ed - really glad they're home. I'll bet you were afraid you would never see them again?

This happened to me twice (same cats - 2 different places) First time. I had moved into a house that had an attic - the way to get it in was in this rip in the closet wall of the spare bedroom. They got in there and were gone for 2 days-this was the first week I moved in. Man I looked everywhere and it was a big house too. Finally they came out - all three but kept trying to go back into the room so that's how we figured it out....Then I was living in these apartments that I wasn't supposed to have any animals.....the first night my tigerbean was sooooo incredibly upset he kept pacing back/forth and crying. I finally couldn't take it any longer so I let him out (it was 4am and he woke me up with all the racket) I figured he would get so freaked out by the strange surroundings that he would want to come back in a few minutes (that was his usual M.O.) but within a minute he took off and I searched for him all the next day and into the night. At around 9pm that night I heard periodic meowing going on...I kept looking for him outside but couldn't find him. And I couldn't tell where it was coming from. I would give him a little call but it he was silent everytime I called out. Then he would start up again in a few minutes. This went on for about 4 hours. I finally went down to the end of the building and went up the stairs (it was an outside staircase) and there he was on the third floor - all upset and disoriented. I quickly scooped him up and brought him back into my apartment. From that day on everytime someone knocked on the door all three of them would run under the bed - I never got caught until the week before I moved out - 18 months later. It was tiger again...he got in the window and someone saw him at 6am. I just told the manager he was there because my friend who was taking care of him was in the hospital and since I was moving in a week he didn't care... lucky huh?

I think cats do this - whenever you move them to a new place they need to go and explore because they have so much curiosity. But they are also traumatized and feel like they are not in control when they're in a new place so it could be that they need to find a safe haven on their own....hard to say why they do this but usually they don't go far because they are scared and a bit disoriented - all new smells and such ya know? make sure you plug that hole up!

**Benmoore47** · 10-27-2010, 04:56 AM

Good to hear that. You make me feel nervous. So, it calls for a celebration.

**Dude72** · 10-27-2010, 05:12 AM

I like kittens. How Cute are they!

**edgray** · 10-28-2010, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Mystical Pippin

Gosh Ed - really glad they're home. I'll bet you were afraid you would never see them again?

This happened to me twice (same cats - 2 different places) First time. I had moved into a house that had an attic - the way to get it in was in this rip in the closet wall of the spare bedroom. They got in there and were gone for 2 days-this was the first week I moved in. Man I looked everywhere and it was a big house too. Finally they came out - all three but kept trying to go back into the room so that's how we figured it out....Then I was living in these apartments that I wasn't supposed to have any animals.....the first night my tigerbean was sooooo incredibly upset he kept pacing back/forth and crying. I finally couldn't take it any longer so I let him out (it was 4am and he woke me up with all the racket) I figured he would get so freaked out by the strange surroundings that he would want to come back in a few minutes (that was his usual M.O.) but within a minute he took off and I searched for him all the next day and into the night. At around 9pm that night I heard periodic meowing going on...I kept looking for him outside but couldn't find him. And I couldn't tell where it was coming from. I would give him a little call but it he was silent everytime I called out. Then he would start up again in a few minutes. This went on for about 4 hours. I finally went down to the end of the building and went up the stairs (it was an outside staircase) and there he was on the third floor - all upset and disoriented. I quickly scooped him up and brought him back into my apartment. From that day on everytime someone knocked on the door all three of them would run under the bed - I never got caught until the week before I moved out - 18 months later. It was tiger again...he got in the window and someone saw him at 6am. I just told the manager he was there because my friend who was taking care of him was in the hospital and since I was moving in a week he didn't care... lucky huh?

I think cats do this - whenever you move them to a new place they need to go and explore because they have so much curiosity. But they are also traumatized and feel like they are not in control when they're in a new place so it could be that they need to find a safe haven on their own....hard to say why they do this but usually they don't go far because they are scared and a bit disoriented - all new smells and such ya know? make sure you plug that hole up!

I was very worried! I'm glad I'm not the only one this has happened too!

**Benmoore47** · 10-28-2010, 03:08 AM

The above pictures really touches my heart. They are so cute and hug-gable.

**dagaul101** · 10-29-2010, 01:08 PM

Hope you find them soon, good luck

**wayfarer07** · 10-29-2010, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dagaul101

Hope you find them soon, good luck

I'm guessing you didn't read the rest of the thread...

**serandfae** · 10-29-2010, 03:36 PM

That is what you call a one-line link drop spammer. They seem to be multiplying in this part of the forum.

Ed, glad the cats came back, but I had a feeling they would. They can and will get anywhere, but they're territorial, so tend to make their way back to what smells familiar quickly.

tim

**wayfarer07** · 10-29-2010, 05:51 PM

Cats are funny creatures. I once had one leave for a matter of months, only to suddenly reappear one day as if nothing had changed. She was shacking up with someone else!

My current dogs would never let me keep a cat though.

**serandfae** · 10-30-2010, 04:48 AM

My cat's grown up with dogs since she was a kitten. She and my beagle were both about the same age, and when they were young she'd play "bait the beagle", where she'd tag him, get him to chase her and she'd hide in the tub and wait, then pounce him, run somewhere else, make her way back to the tub, and so on. She still will play some with our current young pup, even at seven.

tim

**wayfarer07** · 10-30-2010, 10:44 AM

Cats and dogs that grow up together can be fine. But my dogs never had cats around, so they get sort of freaked out if they ever see a cat. Plus, the fact that we have some stray cats that occasionally "invade" our yard doesn't help.

**Mystical Pippin** · 10-30-2010, 06:33 PM

I'll bet.....cats have some pretty sharp nails they are never afraid to use....Dogs, even big ones usually are just curious to start out but if they get too close the cat will hiss and swipe! YIKES that hurts and dogs don't forget. Once that happens they usually don't bond....

I had a cat many years ago that didn't really like people - even me - it took her at least 2 months to get used to me. She was only 8 weeks old too when I got her but my friends that gave her to me let all the kittens live in their backyard so I think that had something to do with it. She was somewhat ferrel.

Anyway I was living in a duplex and my neighbors had a pomeranian (sp?) and for some weird reason they took to each other. It was the funnyiest thing to see them playing. they would roll around on top of each other for hours. And you could tell the dog was getting scratched because he would make these funny sounds when she had her arms wrapped around him....it was really a site! But everytime they released he would go back for more. I've never seen anything like it.