Can you find the cat

One day when you get home from get off work, everything is normal. You have collapsed on the sofa, ready to drink some beer to relax your nerves after a day of stress. At this time, you feel that something is missing at home?
Have you suddenly discovered that the cat owner at home is missing? It doesn’t come out to greet you, nor does it come to ask for food while you’re slumped on the couch.
Then you start looking for the cat in all the places you can think of in the house, but he’s not there. When you search your house but don’t see the fat figure of the cat owner, you have to accept the reality that the cat owner is lost…
If you are experiencing all the above, or you are afraid that one day you will experience the above, I suggest you stay for 3 minutes to read this article, but I still hope that the methods in this article will help you None of them are used.

Nowadays, most cat-raising families in China live in buildings, so the cats that get lost mostly fall into the following two categories:
1. Follow the owner and escape from the house. Of course, this may happen when the owner leaves the house in a hurry or enters the room while playing on his mobile phone. Whether the owner is entering or leaving the house, the cat is easy to follow him out, especially when the owner enters the house.
2. Escape from unsealed indoor areas, mostly through screen windows. Unclosed windows and even unsealed air vents may become windows for cats to escape.

1. First search indoors

When you find that your cat did not come to greet you or did not sleep in its usual sleeping place after you returned home, it is recommended that you open the door first to see if the cat escaped when you entered the door. If there is nothing on the current floor, you can go back to the room first and conduct a carpet-like search in the room. At the same time, you can use the cat’s favorite toys or food to attract the cat, so that the cat can run out of its hiding place on its own. (During this process, you can call the cat’s name and make the cat’s favorite toys make noises.)
When searching the indoor environment, be sure not to miss those seemingly unlikely places, such as drawers where clothes are kept; pots with lids on the floor with the kitchen door open; Behind the wall-mounted TV; under the quilt on the bed in winter and other incredible places.

There are two cats in the picture, can you find them?
At the same time, observe whether there are other clues in the house that may allow the cat to escape, such as scratched screen windows, inexplicable footprints high up, etc.
If none of the above conditions exist, and the cat does not appear no matter how you call it after searching the house, then the cat may have run away.

2. Search methods for escape

1. The prime time to retrieve a cat after it escapes is the first day after it is lost, including one day and one night. During this time, the cat is still very cautious and fearful, and its range of activities is 50 meters around the home.
In a building environment, the probability of a cat running upstairs is higher than that of running downstairs. That is to say, when you find a lost cat, first go up 1 or 2 floors along your building to find it. The probability is relatively high. At the same time, it is easy for cats to hide in the location of your home on different floors (because cats can only remember the general direction, but not the specific floor).
2. When you have searched all the floors above but still cannot find it, you can try to search downstairs one by one. At the same time, if you have a friend or family member who can help you search together, you can ask your friend to go to the community property first, because most communities now have cameras installed at the entrances and exits of the units, and you can search based on the camera records. Determine whether the cat has escaped from the unit building to save time in the search.
3. The camera has confirmed that the cat has escaped from the unit building. You can pay attention to search for hidden places such as grass and bushes near the unit building. Because domestic cats are relatively timid, they usually run to a hidden place to stay there, and then run to a larger area after they gradually become familiar with it.
4. If you don’t find it during the day, you can bring a flashlight and go out to look for it at night, because at night, the cat’s eyes are more reflective of the flashlight, making it easier to find than during the day.
5. When searching, each person should bring a snack or toy that the cat likes. This will make it easier to attract the cat’s appearance.
6. Searching for a cat is a long-term job that requires patience. Just because the cat cannot be found once does not mean that it will never be found. It requires the persistence of the cat owner to be more likely to find the cat.
7. If the search on the first day is fruitless, you can start posting “cat search notices”. On the notice of finding the cat, you should put a photo of the cat in a prominent position, write some characteristics of the cat below, write down the contact information of you or your family, and finally add a certain reward for those who provide clues and help find the cat. (Do not write a specific amount here, so as not to attract the prying eyes of evil-minded people, which will increase the difficulty of finding the cat).

3. Prevention is the most important

Even if you find the cat in the end, both the cat and you will suffer some mental or physical harm, so the best way is to prevent the cat from getting lost in advance.
1. When you are about to enter or go out, please carefully look behind you to see if there is a cat following you! Remember that you are a cat owner and you can no longer be as fearless as before. As long as you pay a little attention, the possibility of a cat getting lost through the door is very low.
2. If there are often people coming and going in your home, you can install a cat fence at the entrance. In this way, the cat will be kept away from the door, thereby reducing the possibility of the cat getting lost (although some cats with extraordinary talents can still pass or escape. out, but they are in the minority after all).
3. Consciously train the cat to respond to a certain behavior. For example, it can respond to you every time you call it. This can reduce the difficulty of the future search process.
4. Very controversial content. Put a collar on the cat and have your contact information engraved on the collar. Regarding this method, Lao Wang, I have a neutral attitude, because I used to wear collars for cats, but later I stopped wearing collars because cats kept scratching the collars. However, when I want to take cats out, I still wear collars for cats. For cats to distinguish them from stray cats.
5. This is a content that I envy Western countries. Inject the cat with a microchip. The microchip records the contact information and information of the poop scraper, so that if someone picks it up, the cat will be sent to a pet with reading capabilities. The hospital or rescue center can contact you again.
Of course, this is one of the reasons why many foreign countries find cats that were lost 10 years ago.
Hopefully you’ll never need to use the search section.