It's A Secret

All our animals have their favorite places to plop. Maybe it's just me, but when they are all doing their nap thing, German Shepherds don't hide themselves very well. But I go to take a head count for cats, and invariably there is one that can't be found.

I'll do a thorough walk through and check out all the possible hiding places, and still no cat. It's like a disappearance. No matter where I found the tucked away feline in the past, that place is empty. With three cats, it seems that they find places that get overlooked.

About the third pass around the house, I'll get more serious, like turning over throw pillows, moving books on the shelves, and finally, in a state of exasperation, I'll find one all bunched up somewhere new. Please tell me I'm not the only one.

Nope, I do that, too. I'm really paranoid about missing furkids. Even if the outside door hasn't been opened in hours, I count heads from time to time. I pretty much know where most of their hiding places are, but I still haven't found some of Mollipop's "special" places yet.

When I'm counting heads and come up short, I holler out "Treat!" and the missing cat is found quickly. They all come running. I hate to do that to them when they're napping, but I need to see that missing head sometimes. And since I would never say that word without meaning it, they're only too willing to wake up for a quick snack.

And when I can't find Mollipop, I go to the freezer and jiggle the ice cube container. She loves ice cubes, so when I do the Ice Cube Jiggle, she comes running into the kitchen.

Strange what we do to find kitties, isn't it?!

Google LOVES doing this! I always go a headcount before I leave to make sure no one is stuck in a closed room or closet or anything. Joey can always be found on the bed or on the couch. Google.... I dont even know. I do two laps around the house and if I still havent found him I send the ball around a few times in the turbo scratcher and he comes bolting out and then gives me dirty looks!

Oh god, I can't tell you how many times I've been completely freaked out thinking I lost a cat when all they did was find someplace new to hide.

Yes my boys do this occasionally. I shake the treat jar and usually they come running. Typically they are very "in your face" kitties and want to be wherever I am, so usually the only time I have to go looking for them is when I have been gone for a few hours and come back home.

Nope. Not alone.

I always need to know where my kitties are! I check before I leave the house, when I get home and periodically through the day if I'm home.

Abby tends to want to be pasted up against me most of the time, but the odd time she likes to hide, so then I go on a hunt for her.

I only have that problem lately. I'm dosing the kittens 4 times a day with meds and they know when it's time for another dose. Otherwise I don't have that many hiding places in this house that are comfortable for a cat nap. They usually take over the bed.

Now, occasionally, one of the kittens will sleep in the den and Blasa can't find them. She'll go through the house yelling for her brother and sister. I usually have to intervene and show her that the missing sibling is simply in the den in some cat furniture.

Your certainly not alone,last night i couldn't find frosty.One place i didn't look was my mop bucket under the stairs,yep,sitting with his head over it sleeping.If he does that again i will take a pic

You are not alone. I have 1 and it happens to me too.

Speck is asleep right now in the Orca bed I bought from a TCS member on eBay, so he is accounted for. But we are forever misplacing cats and thinking they somehow got out. It causes quite a panic. If I didn't know better, I'd swear Daisy does it on purpose.

no, you're not alone - been there, done that - got the t-shirt!

My little Buddha is guilty of this... He's always finding new places to hide. I still haven't found all of them. Thankfully I'm confident enough that I keep the house closed up tight so that I don't worry he's outside somehow, so I just wait a few hours for him to wake up and re-appear.

Ozzy, on the other hand, is too fat to get anywhere I can't find him, the poor thing...

Well, the weirdest has to be our home. We live in an RV with 8 cats. How hard can it be to find them all? Sometimes we walk in - and don't see a single cat! We're forever worrying they figured some way to get out that we can't figure out! There is a way to get up into the dash board (which we keep plugged up) - but we took the control panel (driver's side) out once to make sure there was no way they could get out into the engine somehow IF they ever made it up into the dash.

Somehow someone always manages to find some new place we'd never considered before. A real good one was up underneath the passenger chair. It has a metal plate base that's above floor level - but apparently plenty of room for a cat to squish into.

We also always check the hanging clothes closet now. Flowerbelle LOVES it in there, and it's easy not to notice her getting in there. She'd been shut in there several times for at least several hours at a time. She wasn't freaking - just curled up and very happy - but now "the closet check" is just a part of our routine before leaving anywhere.

I had a litter of five kittens loose in my room a couple of years back. I found 4 kittens and returned them to their pen and looked everywhere in my room for the 5th kitten. I even cut the inside of my bed out because I thought she may have crawled up in there. Anyway turns out there was one place I hadn't looked for Paparazzi and that was under a single sheet of newspaper. There she was fast asleep.

Strangely, not Nora. She likes to be where we are, so where we are is where she sleeps. The only couple times we haven't been able to find her was when my son has friends over so she goes to hide b/c she doesn't like obnoxious kids much. Otherwise she always sleeps in the same spots.

Much would do that when the carrier came out. This is after I closed all of the bedroom doors and the door to the basement. She seemed to be like the Cheshire Cat in Alice of Wonderland. Just fades into nothingness.

Sometimes the only way i can find Swanie is to rattle the treat jar. And you wouldn't think it would that easy for a 25 pound cat to hide that good.

I'm forever loosing or missing someone. Margo is grey, so once it gets dark you can't find her anywhere in the house, she blends with the carpet. She also doesn't come for anything, not if you call her, not for wet food, & not for treats! Twitch & Ophelia are deaf, thank goodness they're white so they stick out like sore thumbs! Gumby & Tab are the next best thing to feral....Gumby being black disappears easily, Tab is tiny & can fit places the other cats cannot.

Originally Posted by CheshireCat

You are not alone. I have 1 and it happens to me too.

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Same here! The dogs are easy to find because well, their dogs! The cats though- let's just say that there's a reason those furries wear bells on their collars! I can't tell you how many times I've done taken clothes out of the closet or done laundry in the laundry room and shut the door behind me to go about the rest of my day only to realize after a furbaby headcount that Velvet was nowhere in sight! (She is SOOO sneaky! I always check behind me before I shut any doors, but it never fails that she out-sneaks me!) Isabella and Kojak are almost as bad as Velvet about sneaking around lol.