I just lost my simese "Miss Chief" due to her curiosity
we are not sure what happened to her.
July 11th I woke to find one of our many screen doors open to the back yard was open. This was not unusual in itself because our simese "Miss Chief" had learned how to open the sliding screen doors. I have changed the locks, put puppy guards on the doors, rescreened them with metal mesh and still she found a way to open them and get out.
She always came home for breakfast, which is fancy feast in a can served at 6 am every morning. But today she didn't show! So I created a missing flyer with reward (50 of them). Called every vet and animal shelter within 20 miles, knocked on every door for a 5 block radius and begged people to check their sheds, pools, and any place a cat might have hidden. Most people were very kind, it was getting to be 105 degrees in the shade and I knew I was running out of time
When she missed the afternoon snack time at 5 pm I started to cry.
While going door to door, I found that she had a pattern. She would visiit this home at this hour of the day and that home at a differant hour. She would watch people through their doors going about their daily lives. I was surprised how many people seen her on a daily basis and missed her. She brought laughter and joy to so many people and children.
Miss Chief is not the cuddle type of kitty, only her daddy (my 31 year old son) was allowed to hold her and give her kitty luvin. Although she enjoyed watching people, she would never allow them to get close to her.
Out of the six kittys we own, two are markers
both of them being simese mix. Only thing you can do is allow them access to the outside when they start screaming at the door or pay the consequences in the home.
It has been almost a month and daily I drive the neighborhood calling her name, I continue to call the animal shelters in the area.
My husband works in sheet metal and created what he thought would help us keep our babies in the yard. He designed and brought home 100 linear yards of 18 inch light aluminum metal with two bends in. Over the weekend we trimed and cut trees so we could fasten the sheets to the top of the existing fense.
My son's are lovingly calling our back yard "al CAT traz"
We let the babies into the yard and sat back to watch. "Little Foot" whom is our other simese mix and a tall lean jumper, went to the fense, studied it and then tried to leap over it! He came back down and then left it alone.
As we continued to watch the twins (pure white barn cats) Cuddles and Bawana took a turn at the fense. Cuddles hurrdled himself over with what seemed little difficulty.
It was dark by then "sigh" I got in my car drove to that house and asked them to let me in the back yard because we were afraid he would not be able to get back into our yard. Cuddles took one look at me and hit the fense at a dead run back to our yard.
My husband is heartbroken
I feel so bad for him he worked so hard on making the back yard safe.
I am not giving up though. I dragged one of their cat trees outside and some of their other toys. Today is monday and we let them out after breakfast. They are still in our yard
it is not fullproof but a deterant. They seem to be enjoying THEIR yard.
If we let them be in THEIR YARD maybe when they get out they won't run jump the fense to hide in the neighbors yard.
hugs
Menou Lover
I still have not given up hope for Miss Chief!! I pray god will bring her back to us safe and sound.
July 11th I woke to find one of our many screen doors open to the back yard was open. This was not unusual in itself because our simese "Miss Chief" had learned how to open the sliding screen doors. I have changed the locks, put puppy guards on the doors, rescreened them with metal mesh and still she found a way to open them and get out.
She always came home for breakfast, which is fancy feast in a can served at 6 am every morning. But today she didn't show! So I created a missing flyer with reward (50 of them). Called every vet and animal shelter within 20 miles, knocked on every door for a 5 block radius and begged people to check their sheds, pools, and any place a cat might have hidden. Most people were very kind, it was getting to be 105 degrees in the shade and I knew I was running out of time
When she missed the afternoon snack time at 5 pm I started to cry.
While going door to door, I found that she had a pattern. She would visiit this home at this hour of the day and that home at a differant hour. She would watch people through their doors going about their daily lives. I was surprised how many people seen her on a daily basis and missed her. She brought laughter and joy to so many people and children.
Miss Chief is not the cuddle type of kitty, only her daddy (my 31 year old son) was allowed to hold her and give her kitty luvin. Although she enjoyed watching people, she would never allow them to get close to her.
Out of the six kittys we own, two are markers
It has been almost a month and daily I drive the neighborhood calling her name, I continue to call the animal shelters in the area.
My husband works in sheet metal and created what he thought would help us keep our babies in the yard. He designed and brought home 100 linear yards of 18 inch light aluminum metal with two bends in. Over the weekend we trimed and cut trees so we could fasten the sheets to the top of the existing fense.
My son's are lovingly calling our back yard "al CAT traz"
We let the babies into the yard and sat back to watch. "Little Foot" whom is our other simese mix and a tall lean jumper, went to the fense, studied it and then tried to leap over it! He came back down and then left it alone.
As we continued to watch the twins (pure white barn cats) Cuddles and Bawana took a turn at the fense. Cuddles hurrdled himself over with what seemed little difficulty.
It was dark by then "sigh" I got in my car drove to that house and asked them to let me in the back yard because we were afraid he would not be able to get back into our yard. Cuddles took one look at me and hit the fense at a dead run back to our yard.
My husband is heartbroken
I am not giving up though. I dragged one of their cat trees outside and some of their other toys. Today is monday and we let them out after breakfast. They are still in our yard
If we let them be in THEIR YARD maybe when they get out they won't run jump the fense to hide in the neighbors yard.
hugs
Menou Lover
I still have not given up hope for Miss Chief!! I pray god will bring her back to us safe and sound.
