Meanwhile I’m about to have a heart attack.
Well imagine the struggle with a tiny black cat…
She basically becomes invisible on any black surface…
When you are looking for your cat you ALWAYS start at the top.
When you are looking for your cat you ALWAYS open the box of food.
FTFY
When I first got my last kitty, she disappeared on me. I was frantic. I was canvassing the neighborhood, showing apathetic delivery drivers kitty pics. Just a solid 3 hours of panic. She had burrowed into a load of laundry that just came out of the dryer. Just looking content af in her warm cloths nest. Fuckin cat…
At some point you just accept that they’re gone… until they turn up again, opportunistic bastards…
Rookie mistake… Always check the laundry, blankets, boxes, nooks, and crinkly paper spots before panicking.
And even if you don’t find them in any of those, still don’t panic because they’re always finding new hidey holes to nap in.
If they miss a meal time, then you can start to panic.
Theory and practice.
Well, that’s just the life with a cat companion.
Cats are jerks.
“Why is he walking around yelling my name? Well in any case he seems to be enjoying himself, I shouldn’t interrupt”
“Pathetic”
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I cannot help but feel very sorry for your parents. Also, this qualifies as stalking and harassment. You’ve been reported.
Edit: Also, Leonard is the most spoiled and happy cat there has ever been. He knows only love.
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Okay.
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Look, I’ve already established objective dominance, there’s nothing more to be discussed between you and I, you bore me, now.
Goodbye.
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Get banned, little baby.
Reported again. This is a place to discuss and celebrate cats, not to harass people for hosing down your terrible stances. Just stop.
Welcome to at least once a month for the rest of your shared natural lives. It’s their duty to keep you on your toes.
If I say my orange’s name in the other end of the house, he comes running to me yowling along the way.
The only thing I’ve figured out is that he recognizes that I’m not closeby him and he panics lol.
If he doesn’t come and I can’t find him, I know he’s sick or stressed. Only happened a handful of times over the past 13 years. If I’m away for a few days and he’s got a sitter, that is usually the biggest trigger.
He really needs a companion cat, but thats hard at 14.
Lenny usually comes right away if you call his name, he’s more of a dog than a cat, he just felt like being a jerk this time.
Eh cats don’t run away, if they do they usually come back eventually anyways but yeah … Every single cat owner has had that experience. I know I have!
I just learned eventually that you have to trust the cat is somewhere in the house playing hide and seek really well. They’ll show back up for meals or treats. My cat always wanted to go outside but when given the opportunity she often changed her mind and just stayed in. Or when she was outside she stuck close to the door and went back in with me.
I have two cats that are scared of adventure and one that would love to climb trees and jump fences and fight raccoons. He would absolutely “run away” and get himself in trouble he couldn’t get out of.
I’ve lost my old man three times this week. First two he was just hanging out behind the curtain. Third time I’m like, I’m going to check behind the curtain! Nope. He was under a desk on top of the air vent. That’s how I knew the heat had kicked on.
My cat (who does know her name), watching me look and call everywhere for her: “Huh, my human is really searching hard for me…”
Mines too dumb to know her name. So I just have to go and find her, so she can’t make me look dumb for calling her name repeatedly. Though I do it anyway. So maybe I am dumb too.
I’ve found that a lot of cats do know their name, they just don’t care that you called them. “Yes? Can I help you?”
It reminds me of I think Trade Wars when you’d try and land on a planet when you didn’t have anything to sell that they were buying or any money to buy anything and the game refused, having the planet saying like “You have nothing I need and cannot buy anything I sell” - or something like that. Cat saying “Yes? Can I help you? You have neither treats nor toys and are wasting my time talking to me while I’m here, comfortable and happy. Away with you! Go and bother someone else.” lol
It’s funny (and neat) to see you here from the {{diacritical_mark}} site. I’m glad you’re here
I’ve appealed my ban from there several times, but that’s what you get with a single gatekeeper. A pity, because that community is really nice. I’m really bad at names/handles, so I’m sorry to say I don’t recognize yours, but if you were there then I like you already. lol. I apologize for my poor memory - ADHD sucks. :/ Hopefully I’ll see you around! :)
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My cat used to absolutely vanish for hours; I would search every conceivable spot a cat could get into and not find her. Then she would nonchalantly wander into whatever room I was in without a care in the world. This happened even after I moved two different times. I finally concluded that she was just an extra-dimensional being that didn’t want to spend all its time in my dimension.
Then one day I was looking for her under my bed and I noticed a slight sagging of the fabric on the underside of the box spring. I poked it and sure enough she gave a slightly annoyed meow. A small corner of the fabric had come loose years before and she had just been crawling up into the box spring the whole time.
Tbf, just because you observed her that one time, doesn’t discount the possibility of being an extra dimensional being.
I like to think that since she’s not in my dimension any more.
😿 Sorry for your loss
That happens pretty often with my partner. She’ll be all “I have the door open for 2.3 seconds, did he run away?!” and search for an hour.
Thing is, our cat is very afraid of the outside; he just likes to hide out in cupboards and closets a lot. I seem to be the only one who can find him though.
