Okay: today my family calls me at my work blaming me for one of our housecats escaping (she also did this two weeks ago). They tear the house apart looking for her. Both my daughter and wife are in the house all day, except for periods searching the neighborhood. This cat loves to sleep with my daughter. My daughter took a nap, but the cat never did lay with her, so it's a given the cat is not in the house. Cats will hide somewhere for hours driving you crazy looking for them, but there is a limit. The have to eat, shit, drink, etc. eventually. Long story short it's over 12 hours later and I'm staking out a neighborhood where a cat with her description was spotted, to no avail. I come home, and my family says "we found her." My daughter was on the computer, heard a crunching sound behind her and the cat was eating her food. All the doors + windows were closed. Somehow the cat was gone or hiding for over 12 hours without a "meow" like it would make if it were trapped somewhere. If it were in a cabinet (for say half the day) it couldn't go back into another cabinet or the same cabinet without opposable thumbs. At no time did the cat eat, drink, use the litter box, run around playing with the other cats.....nothing. Somehow this cat was...gone....somewhere.....and turned up over 12 hours later hungry + thirsty. We do not have a "doggy door" or any other way for anything larger than an ant do get in and out. So....do any of our WF members know any links between weird unexplained animal "thin air" things like this and paranormal activity? Not saying it was paranormal.....but has this kind of thing happened to other people (sane people anyway)? I'm pinging over here! WTF is going on?
Remember, cats can fit into any space large enough for their head to pass thru. I've caught ours coming out of a closet I didn't think he could get into, from under the bed behind the boxes we store under there, from behind cushions on the couch . . . in short, any small space he could find to hide in. Our cat has even figured out how to close doors behind him. It ain't supernatural, it's just cats.
Was the cat in the spot for over 12 hours going hungry + thirsty and forgoing all contact with friends + family?
You own a Schroedinger's Cat: The kind that walks through walls. (Reference: Heinlein novel of the same name)
Years ago, my family lived in a trailer (nice big one) - seemed easier for moves at the time. Anyway, we had a cat. We were packing the trailer to move. The cat was MIA for hours. We refused to close up and leave the trailer until we found her. She finally came out of wherever, for dinner (I think we had her special favorite dinner that always brought her to the table). Never knew where she was hiding. It's a cat thing which we humans will never understand
My cat will disappear for hours at a time as well. He'll just be quiet, won't come out for snacks, won't go near the litter box, won't have any water. Eventually he shows up.
Good question. more like it was in a spot for a few hours at a time and came out for sustenance when wife and daughter weren't bumbling about making noise. my little one is like that with her ceiling club house...
Crap. Worked for me. It was the shot from Assignment Earth when Gary 7's cat turned into a hot chick.
My cats understood to open the door you had to turn the handle but the male cat who could reach it never had the strength to turn the knob.
My biggest, oldest cat (25 pounds) tried tunneling under our fence one time, after realizing his climbing/jumping days were long gone. He doesn't even bother to try to escape anymore.
I remember this one farm cat - had only three legs cause she tried to stop a car that had one of her kittens in it (she wasn't ready to give it up just yet) - who took on any and all dogs in the vicinity. The ones her size she just faced. The ones bigger than her - she found a box or something that got her to their size and faced them with teeth and claws.
Don't be so sure of that. I've seen my parent's cat shove her paw between the cabinet door and the frame, open the door just enough to climb in, and simply push the door back open when she was good and ready to come out.
I have an idea...it sounds crazy but it just might work.... put a small camera on the cat with a live video feed. Make the camera small and unobtrusive so as not to change the cat's habits. I'll find out exactly where it goes! Now the downside....what if the cat puts the camera on another cat as a red herring to throw us off?
Don't question it. Just be grateful for the amount of time the damned thing is out of sight and out of mind.
Not at all...it's a great cat normally. Definitely brings something to the table pet-wise, so I have no complaints.
Often sites prevent their images from being linked to from outside websites. You can usually get around this. After clicking on the link above in Forbins post I got a FORBIDDEN message. Then, in the url bar, I just added a ? to the end of the address, like so: .../albums/2x26/2x26-AssignmentEarth0334_TrekCore.jpg? Press enter, and the image will usually load straight up.
We had a cat living with us for three days / two nights. We don't own a cat, and we don't leave food out, so I don't know how it survived. We never found any urine or poo either. It was a very large kitten, I think, because it was the size of a cat, but had a kitteny face. The first night, my housemate heard it padding up and down the hallway, thought it was a ghost. His fiance is Chinese, and her chinese name is Zijuan, her mum calls her 'zuwn zuwn', which if crying, can be compared to a cats quiet distress meow. The second night, I dreamt a cat jumped on my face and disappeared into the ether, into the wall behind me. Zijuan and I realised the cat was in the flat when it dashed from outside the sofa and into my room. Took about 20 minutes to find it in my very small room, because my room was a mess, and it turned out it was in a 2inch gap between my bedhead and the wall.
My Poodle, Jack Bauer, loves small, dark spaces. He is really very timid, coming from an abused background. When I first got him, I would come home, and not be able to find him. The first time this happened, I was terrified he had gotten out. I looked for him around the place for several hours. Later that night, I came out of the bathroom, and there he was. This repeated itself often over the next month - he was obviously hiding somewhere. One night, I was sitting on the couch watching TV. I heard a jingle from RIGHT UNDERNEATH ME. Turns out he was essentially living in the couch - he was getting in through a tear in that fabric couches and mattresses have on their undersides. He was living there, loving it! He eventually gnawed his way through that material, and stayed on the floor in that spot.
Hate to necro, but Skin got the image to work (click the link, then immediately reload the page.) Not just a hot chick -- look closely at the eyebrows. It's a hot Vulcan chick.
