I searched the board for a topic similar to my question, but didn't find one. If I missed it, I apologize.
Ok, here goes.
I live in an area prone to severe weather - tornadoes, damaging wind, hail, etc.
We had such a storm last night. I have 2 cats, both rescue kitties. One cat is a male cat, Donny, and the other a female cat, Chade. To top the mix off, I have a labrador retriever. Once the emergency sirens went off I started rounding up the pets and heading for the laundry room. I think that might have been my first mistake, I should have rounded them up before the sirens went off.
The labrador was easy, she'll go anywhere with me. I managed to round up the male cat because he was interested in the voice coming out of the weather radio. However, the female cat was nowhere to be found. She was hiding and that was that.
Once the storm was over, it turns out she was just outside the laundry less than 2 feet away.
Any tips on how to successfully round up cats in a stressful situation?
They seem to "know" that I'm trying to get them to do something and that sends them into hiding mode.
Both of them despise, no, they actually hate their crates. And if I even make a move to get a crate out of the garage, the cats are hiding. The male never responds to calling his name or calling "Here kitty". The female will come to her name if everything is calm in her world.
All my animals are required to wear a collar and tags because of the emergencies we might have to deal with. Should we get separated at least we have that.
After the storm, I told them we really did need to work on their emergency preparedness plan as it was seriously in need of improvement.
I think they ignored me.
We are supposed to have severe storms again on Tuesday. We lucked out yesterday and only had hail and high winds. But the tornado hit just west of us and then skipped over our city entirely before touching down east of us. That's close enough to have me rethinking our preparedness plan.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
dotty
Donny, Chade and Brownie's Mom
Ok, here goes.
I live in an area prone to severe weather - tornadoes, damaging wind, hail, etc.
We had such a storm last night. I have 2 cats, both rescue kitties. One cat is a male cat, Donny, and the other a female cat, Chade. To top the mix off, I have a labrador retriever. Once the emergency sirens went off I started rounding up the pets and heading for the laundry room. I think that might have been my first mistake, I should have rounded them up before the sirens went off.
The labrador was easy, she'll go anywhere with me. I managed to round up the male cat because he was interested in the voice coming out of the weather radio. However, the female cat was nowhere to be found. She was hiding and that was that.
Once the storm was over, it turns out she was just outside the laundry less than 2 feet away.
Any tips on how to successfully round up cats in a stressful situation?
They seem to "know" that I'm trying to get them to do something and that sends them into hiding mode.
Both of them despise, no, they actually hate their crates. And if I even make a move to get a crate out of the garage, the cats are hiding. The male never responds to calling his name or calling "Here kitty". The female will come to her name if everything is calm in her world.
All my animals are required to wear a collar and tags because of the emergencies we might have to deal with. Should we get separated at least we have that.
After the storm, I told them we really did need to work on their emergency preparedness plan as it was seriously in need of improvement.
I think they ignored me.
We are supposed to have severe storms again on Tuesday. We lucked out yesterday and only had hail and high winds. But the tornado hit just west of us and then skipped over our city entirely before touching down east of us. That's close enough to have me rethinking our preparedness plan.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
dotty
Donny, Chade and Brownie's Mom