Lost Cat, what to do ?

How to find your lost cat (or lost puppy)? Discover below all the steps to follow after the loss of your cat.

1. Make a complete first round of the neighborhood by calling and whistling your cat. Ask people nearby: passers-by, neighbors, shopkeepers... Act as quickly as possible so that the animal does not go too far as the days go by.

2. Check that a person has not found your cat by looking at the list of cats found. view list »

3. Register your cat in the list of lost cats. Registration form »

4. Print posters. You can print posters directly on this site. You will find the link to the PDF poster in the email you received or in your account. See also the full guide about lost cat posters »

5. Inform veterinarians, town halls, police stations, associations, garbage collectors... and leave them your posters. Go on-site, you will not get a 100% reliable answer by phone.

6. Place your poster in strategic places: bus shelters, shops, schools...

7. You may be contacted by crooks, see "Warning Scammers!"

8. Do not lose hope, check out the list of reunited cats, read the many testimonials or the statistics of the site.

Patricia Franckhauser's method

Author: Miss Patricia Franckhauser (Volunteer Animal Protection Manager) I am giving you here my method to find your missing cat. If it is still alive, thanks to this method, you have a maximum of chances to find it quickly.

I have been experimenting with this method for over 20 years of field experience. Currently being a volunteer animal welfare officer, I decided to share it with you. I hope this explanation will stay online as long as possible because it will be very useful for people who have lost their cat or kitten.

Whether you have lost your cat near you or elsewhere, his reaction will be to hide immediately, especially if he does not know the environment where he has just gone astray. Or it could be in shock, pain, big fright, debutante illness disturbing him, giving him a fever, disturbing his hearing, his sight, etc...

The method is simple: at nightfall call at very high and intelligible voice, every quarter of an hour or twenty minutes, for a full 5 minutes and this every half hour minimum, minimum 3 hours in total, this is a minimum call your cat 6 times per evening, more if you wish. Personally, I call every twenty minutes five minutes. Do it calmly, strongly (no worse for neighbors until 10 pm there is no fuss), from dusk to a few hours later. Call "relentlessly" every half hour minimum, each time 5 minutes and you will start each evening for ten days if necessary. In general, your cat will hear you from the "first night", but will not move, spot you the "second night", and identify where your voice comes from and will then substantially try to get closer as soon as he understands that he can rely on your voice to reorient himself and return.
So he will start his long march, if he is injured, weakened, it will be difficult but he will even come back on 3 legs !!!! You will have to insist that he has confidence, he may have lost several kilos, be voiceless, in general, he is within a radius of 250 meters or 300 meters around the place where he fled, and he will hear even further, because at night the voice sounds. One must not be afraid to call him strongly by name. You can also whistle from time to time with an ultrasonic whistle.
Do not go away from the starting point or if you do, you have to hail it from the outside of the search circle inwards exclusively, otherwise you will move your cat away and it is not at all the purpose.

Why does it work? Simply because a cat lives in a world of smells and sounds. If it is lost or if it does not see well after a shock, or other reason, it can not find its smells, its name and gets lost, sometimes even 50 meters from home or closer and can panic and burrow in a corner, a cellar, a pile of wood, a bumper car.
It works after a month of absence, as after several months or a year if the cat recognizes your voice, the whole thing is that it is repetitive, at fixed hours, at night, and lasts long enough that your cat hears you and understands that the sounds will be repeated every night. Why in the evening? Because the night brings the sounds far beyond the calm surrounding, the voice carries several hundred meters, the day the other noises will stifle the sound of your voice and it will be lost time.
A gentleman from my village found his cat after 5 months of disappearance, it is currently our max record, it returned very weakened but returned.

I want to finish on hope because you have to have courage, there in the night, your cat is waiting for you, it is probably not too late, even six months later, a year later, it can be fed by a neighbor, a neighbor, who does not know that it is yours, and the cat does not see very well beyond 6 meters, it does not distinguish the same colors as us and strolls in a world of relatively gray tones, odors or the fact that it is easily lost and often not far from home.
If you have a little patience, a lot of love, a good voice that carries a little, not afraid to call and pitch your voice in the night, and a bit of luck, you will find your cat...

This technique is very reliable and works very very well, it will cost you 5 minutes of your life every twenty minutes, a few evenings in your life, and you will find your kind companion lost in the night that must be terrorized, if you do, at least you will have tried, many people have benefited in my village, it works very well. Do not expect it the first or second night, keep going, minimum ten days.

I also want to say to people who move that the cat needs "several months" to get used to its new home, and that we do not "go out a cat" in his new garden as soon as he arrives, we wait for a month and a half at 3 months, more if you can before leaving the cat. Do not forget to vaccinate, sterilize and especially tattoo before taking it out.
I win nothing to help you find your cat and that's happiness !!!!

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