Panic!!!

[Cheshirekatt]

Ok, how long have your cats hidden without you being able to find them? I can't find Tiger Lilly! I've been looking for 3 hours....I've looked everywhere? I'm starting to panic. How could she have gotten out? *wringing hands*

[Logan]

I thought Mimi was lost once (I'm sure I posted about it here at the time). I was scared to death!!! Turned out she had spent the night under the kitchen sink!!! :rolleyes: Check all of your kitchen cabinets and closets, even drawers, real closely.

I hope you find her soon!!!

Logan

[Cheshirekatt]

Kitten crisis 2003 is over! I don't know where the heck she was, but she just "teleported" back into the bedroom. She's looking at me like, "What's all the fuss about?" Whew.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Yes, check EVERYwhere!
Even the places where ..."She couldn't *possibly be*!"
THOSE are the places where she probably IS!

On the off chance she DID get out :eek: ~
Put a bowl of food out on the porch or steps to draw her close to the house.

But keep looking inside - Boots can *vanish* inside the house, totally ignore frantic pleadings to "Come out, come out, wherever you are!"
...and then saunter into view an hour later with a "Oh, you callin *ME*?" look plastered all over his face! :mad:

And he's also spent an entire day locked in the baffroom klozit :( more than once! SOMEday he'll learn to at least *MeOOOOOw* when he's called!

[Logan]

LOL!! Tiger Lilly, I guess your hiding place is still safe since your mom doesn't know where you were hiding!!! :) I'm just glad she can quit worrying now!!

Phred, I'm with you. Couldn't they just meow real loud or something?? :p

[Cheshirekatt]

Well, and I kept thinking I was hearing little meows, but she's got such a small squeaker, I wasn't sure. *sigh* What a little pill. I need a sedative now......lol

[Barbara]

5-6 hours. Filou is a specialist in de-materializing.

[boscibo]

Abby and Hanna do that all the time - really scares me. I know they hide up inside my boxspring, the liner underneath is flimsy and even though I have stapled the thing back on, they manage to rip it down so they can sneak in.

For Hanna, I trained her to come when I ring a little bell. It is a bell off one of her old fetching toys and she loves that sound. So when I can't find her, I get the bell and ring it until she comes running. I don't know if this will work forever, but for now she comes when I ring.

[Prairie Purrs]

My sister had a kitten who crawled under the sink and found an opening that led to the apartment next door. Imagine the next-door neighbor's surprise when she came home to find a kitten in the living room of her second-floor apartment! :rolleyes:

[neko1]

My cats hide too. But as soon as I rattle some food bags, they all come stampeding into the room, meowing. Then I can account for all of them:)

[catland]

Joxer once went "missing" on me when he was just a little kitten. We searched and searched and started to get that panicky feeling even though we knew that he HAD to be in the house somewhere.

We found him sleeping in the shadow of a table lamp (he is solid grey).:D

[Cheshirekatt]

Originally posted by CatsinDenver
My sister had a kitten who crawled under the sink and found an opening that led to the apartment next door. Imagine the next-door neighbor's surprise when she came home to find a kitten in the living room of her second-floor apartment! :rolleyes:

LOL I can think of worse things to find in my apartment! :D

[Kirsten]

Glad that Tiger Lilly is back!!!

Funny thing is that we just had a discussion like this one in my own cat forum (http://pub14.ezboard.com/fkirstensbrethartpagesforbretfanspetfans.showMessa ge?topicID=728.topic). Some kitties tend to disappear mysteriously and then be back as if nothing has happened. Scary stuff!

Kirsten

[rosethecopycat]

Four hours! Pepper, our guest cat, hid between the wall in the closet and a storage container 3 inches away. Seven people could not find her, on Christmas Day!

How big of search parties have you all had?

[Cheshirekatt]

I'm thinking of changing her name to Nightcrawler. She just seemed to bamf in with the slight hint of brimstone. LOL

[Cinder & Smoke]

Originally posted by rosethecopycat

How big of search parties have you all had?

How bout *half the Towne*!!? :eek:

Member this wun - frum last Fall? :rolleyes:


Originally posted by Cinder & Smoke
Mundee wuz a day to member :rolleyes:...

It wuz gonna be *pee inna kup* day fur Bootsy.
Ebberbuddie loadz up inna trakter kar an motors ober to da Shop. BIG krowd inna parkin lot! Ditch digger diggin ta put inna sewer line fur da shop. Lotta noize an ppl movin pipes an stuff. Lookz like phunn! Dad sez NUTZ!

Kat goez in furst an getz tied to da chair; we getz tied onna porch ta *bark* at da werkerz. Dad wuz :mad: kuz Smoke's lernin how ta *bark* at intruders - Dad did a lotta runnin out an shoutin *QUIET!* at us. Smoke eben took sum pets frumma guyz - tink he's gettin a lil less skairt of guyz.

Shop door got left open kuz guyz wuz runnin in an out - but Kat klimbed up onna BigDesk an made a nest inna papurz. Dunno what hoppen'd ~

Kat musta panik'd wiff allua noize...
Dad comed in an saw the RollyDex onna floor inna big pile a spillt papurs - anna Kat'z leashy string busted or chomped off ~
An *NO* Kat! :eek:

Instant lok-down an hed kount = Wun Missin = da KAT! :eek:

Major Search startz - NO Kat ta be found...
Dad startz canvassin the neighborhood - NUFFIN! :(

Dad makes a *Wanted Poster* an ZeeRoxez a bunch...
Startz passin em out an stickin em in store windowz. Walks the Hood ebery hour or so Kat callin...

More Big Masheenz come ta fill inna Big Ditch aftur the pipe's in = More Noize. Dad figgerz Kat's half way ta home an gotz losted onna way. :(
An Dad's gotta go ta the FD fur a klass...
Plan is go ta klass an come back fur anudder search inna Hood.
Allua Noizy Masheenz get dun movin durt an get hauled away - kinda quiet fur the furst tyme all day. Dad tosses us Muttz inna kar an startz shuttin stuff off inna Shop...

Runz back ta da kar an grabz a dawggie leash...
Whas'zat fur? :confused:

Minnit later he opens da kar door an tosses in...
Da BOOTS KAT!! Oh Happie Dayz :)

"Where'z ya BEEN all day, Kat!?"

*Hidin*...
Ebberbuddie lefted me alone inna shop an I gotz skairt!
Tried ta jump offa BigDesk an gotz all snarled up onna RollyDexer - hole buncha stuff *krashed* down wiff me an I *panik'd*...
Chomped off da stringy an hid a-hind da Fax masheen desk onna ledge... Been there all day.

Dincha hear Dad hollerin yer name all day an shakin yer *Temptshunz Baggy*!!??

Fraid ta kome out - figgered I'z in trubbel fur bumpin da RollyDexer anna papurz onna floor...
An it wuz a lil *quieter* jammed tween da desk anna wall - to much NOIZE here tuday! Wunder if Dad'z :mad:?

*MAD* duzint do the sitsheashun justiss! :rolleyes:

We made a fast trip round Towne retreevin *Wanted Posterz* an dashed fur da Ranch. Nunbuddie sed very much onna way home... Kat got tossed inna baffroom jail. Dad wuz twenny minnitz late ta klass.

Whudda Day it wuz!
Dad'z still a Nerbuz Rek...

[kimlovescats]

Oh yes... the 'ole kitten disappearing act!!!! I know that one well! hehehe

Tiger Lily went exploring and when she was "played out" she "passed out"!!! She was totally oblivious to the whole search and rescue effort!:rolleyes:

Take a deep breath mom, and prepare for round two!!! :eek:

[Cheshirekatt]

Originally posted by kimlovescats
Oh yes... the 'ole kitten disappearing act!!!! I know that one well! hehehe

Tiger Lily went exploring and when she was "played out" she "passed out"!!! She was totally oblivious to the whole search and rescue effort!:rolleyes:

Take a deep breath mom, and prepare for round two!!! :eek:

LOL I just went into the bedroom 20 minutes ago and couldn't find her again! She was in plain sight right here:

[krazyaboutkatz]

I'm so glad you found her. Kittens can hide in the strangest places. When I was a young girl and I had a kitten named Puff, I thought I lost her too. She was in the bathroom and the door was closed so I knew she had to be in there somewhere. She had manged to crawl under the cabinet into one of the bathroom drawers. After spending some time searching for her, I just happened to open up one of the bathroom drawers and she was inside of it sleeping. That's how little she was. :)

[catmandu]

Michael, my little Orange and White was so scared when I moved into the house that he hid in the muslin layer nder the mattress! It tok me the better part of the night to notice the tiny lump in the far corner of the bed! And I thought it wa the movers who let him out! I was so releived that he was OK!

[kimlovescats]

*giggle* ..... yep, just an innocent little sleeping baby!!!! :D

[Cheshirekatt]

Originally posted by catmandu
Michael, my little Orange and White was so scared when I moved into the house that he hid in the muslin layer nder the mattress! It tok me the better part of the night to notice the tiny lump in the far corner of the bed! And I thought it wa the movers who let him out! I was so releived that he was OK!

OMG that remided me of when I moved with Rodan...he was a no-see-um. He was missing for three days!! I thought for sure he'd gotten out during the moved I was just devestated. Well, one night I opened the drawer on the bottom of the stove and there he was with all the pots and pans! LOL He just looked at me, ran to the litterbox and peed for about two minutes. lol Poor guy.