What am I supposed to to if I see the cat? Try to catch it? Call the owners and hope the cat stays put until they arrive?
What am I supposed to to if I see the cat? Try to catch it? Call the owners and hope the cat stays put until they arrive?
Sometimes they are friendly and most house cats will come to you if you call them in a friendly manner. I've returned a lost cat to its owners, they were very happy. The sign helped.
thejeff wrote:
What am I supposed to to if I see the cat? Try to catch it? Call the owners and hope the cat stays put until they arrive?
If it's outdoors, call the owners and let them know you saw it and where.
If it's on your property and the cat is friendly, again, call the owners.
How difficult is that to understand?
HardLoper wrote:
No.
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Love it.
What are people supposed to do?
The signs spell it out - if you see the cat, call the number. That's it.
You personally should just keep walking, if you can't follow such a simple request I imagine you're only going to frustrate and traumatize the owner with your bewildered ramblings as you attempt to describe the cat and your location
Lost cat signs are helpful for the cat because most cats haven't bothered to memorize their phone numbers.
Our cat ran away and it was a great day. I was walking with my 4 year old months later and we saw some missing pet signs. She said, "we should have done that for Boots." I said, acting as if I had never heard of missing pet signs, "oh...yeah, we should have."
So I guess a purpose would be to make your kids think you are looking for your cat.
Blojo Co-Pounder wrote:
What are people supposed to do?
The signs spell it out - if you see the cat, call the number. That's it.
You personally should just keep walking, if you can't follow such a simple request I imagine you're only going to frustrate and traumatize the owner with your bewildered ramblings as you attempt to describe the cat and your location
It isn't a matter of me not following directions. It is a matter of the cat not waiting around for the owner to show up.
former cat owner wrote:
Our cat ran away and it was a great day. I was walking with my 4 year old months later and we saw some missing pet signs. She said, "we should have done that for Boots." I said, acting as if I had never heard of missing pet signs, "oh...yeah, we should have."
So I guess a purpose would be to make your kids think you are looking for your cat.
THIS I can believe. Thank you for an honest answer.
Not exactly on topic but close enough: a woman calls 911 to report her cat is "stuck" in a tree and pleads for the fire department to respond.
The 911 dispatcher declines, noting," ma'am, we don't find a lot of dead cats in trees."
Moral of the story: cats will come home when they're ready.
You won’t see them. There were eaten by coyotes.
former cat owner wrote:
Our cat ran away and it was a great day. I was walking with my 4 year old months later and we saw some missing pet signs. She said, "we should have done that for Boots." I said, acting as if I had never heard of missing pet signs, "oh...yeah, we should have."
So I guess a purpose would be to make your kids think you are looking for your cat.
"Cat ran away" code for took it target shooting.
Why would anyone want a cat?
Any Which Way But Loose wrote:
Why would anyone want a cat?
Fair question.
John Utah wrote:
You won’t see them. There were eaten by coyotes.
+1
My ex-gf had three cats in our tiny one bedroom. I hated them and now her, so just for fun I call those poster numbers and say I just saw your cat.
Namaste, bitches.
I know this is hard to believe, it was EXTREMELY hard to believe when it happened, but a lost cat once crawled in my third floor window. So...yeah.
Is there any point to praying?
I put up lost cat signs twice and both times got my cats back. Someone called and said my cat was on their porch and it was still chilling there when I got there to pick him up.
I tear down lost cat signs when I see them.
Don't bother . Read "Coyote America " by Dan Flores . Coyotes consider cats intraguild predators. They are competing for the same prey - mice, squirrels, birds. As soon as coyotes move in to an area they kill the cats off to lessen competition .