Hi everyone..Lost Yum Yum

[wayne0214]

Rosemary, welcome to pet talk, and like it already has been stated, we hope that you come back here often.

As far as keeping a pet cat at home, have you thought of these?: (1) Either build or purchase a cat tree, and place it inside some place where she can hide and call her own little private place, say, something that is about 6ft. tall (2 meters), (2) Adopt another furkid, for her to befriend and for company . (3), Keep some cat grass inside so she can nibble on it. (4) treat her with some special cat treats or food (such as tuna) once in a while. On this last item, my furkids go crazy over hot pizza and BBQd' chicken. I have to fight them off in order to eat my meal of, especially, these two. I hope this helps.

Thanks for the insight of dumping or spreading their litter, and placing one's dirty laundry, outide in order to bring them back inside. I had never heard nor thought of these.

........wayne

[lynnestankard]

Hello Rosemary and a BIG welcome to Pet Talk - I've only just logged on and read about poor Sonsy going 'walkabout' - I'm just so happy she's decided to stop being lost and get herself home!
It's the most stomach churning feeling when they're lost isn't it?
We have three daft furkids (Bagel, Ketchum and Dan) and they are outdoor/indoor cats - as many are here in England. Just before Christmas Ketchum went missing for 8 days and I was in total panic - then in he walked calm as anything - I didn't know whether to strangle him or cuddle him - so I did the latter! Then again over New Year he went again!! I just couldn't believe it!
This time when he came home he didn't even want to come in the house - that really frightened me - but Don got to work with the first thing that came to hand - a roast ham! And after an hour, he managed to persuade the wanderer indoors!! I simply cannot describe the relief. So I told him there and then 'You're an indoor cat from now on Ketchum' - he purred at me!!
Needless to say he hasn't been out since January 3rd - he sometimes looks out of the window and miaows as me - I simply say 'No go sunshine' and he seems to understand!
I know come summer it's going to be soooooo difficult - 'cos I have the windows and the back door open all day - hopefully by then he'll have lost his wanderlust.

Yum-Yum are you coming home now? Please.

Lynne

[Edwina's Secretary]

Oh Rosemary!! I know the feeling. Edwina did this to me once -- hid in a closet (she was angry as I had returned to work after a break) and I was in such a panic . Kept asking my stepson...are you sure she didn't sneak out the door?!?!?!?

Well...all's well that ends well, right Sonsy?

[Barbara]

Hey Sonsy you nawteekat. Filou does it just like you. Hiding and scaring people to death.
We are sooooo happy that you are back again

[AmberLee]

Whew! I missed this thread during the high anxiety stage. So very relieved that Sonsy's back safe and sound. Welcome to Pet Talk, Rosemary.

Prayers being said for Yum Yum.

[rbrowne222]

Gini, I remember those sagging box spring "hammocks" that kitties find! They can get soooo comfortable. I still have no idea where Sonsy was hiding. And she's getting impatient now that I'm paying more attention to my computer than to her!!

Thanks...I LOVE this site!

Rosemary

[rbrowne222]

Hey, everyone. When I started posting on this site, the "title" under my name was "Newcomer." Now it's "resident." I see lots of different ones. Where do they come from???

Sonsy's Mom

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by rbrowne222
Hey, everyone. When I started posting on this site, the "title" under my name was "Newcomer." Now it's "resident." I see lots of different ones. Where do they come from???

Sonsy's Mom

Hi Rosemary. Glad to see you're back with us. You have to get Sonsy to sit on your lap while you're on the computer, but not so she impedes your typing or mouse fingers.

I believe you're a newcome until you get 10 posts, then you become a resident. Then I think it's once you hit 100 posts, you can change it to whatever you want. I believe the option to do that is in your user profile, but don't take my word for it. I don't remember exactly. You could do a search for "profile" and there might be some more informative posts out there, but it works something like that.

Oh, and please don't take this the wrong way, like I'm preaching or anything, but you might want to start a new thread if you have more questions. There's a lot of people waiting for Yum Yum to come home, and I know you would hate to give them all false hope when they see this thread back up at the top and on the "active" lists. Just remember, there's no dumb question as we're always glad to hear about everyone's kitties and the questions their humans might have for their care. And we like pictures even better.