If you have a missing cat, there are several important things to do as soon as you realise your cat is missing, which can to help to bring them home. When this advice is followed, it often helps to reunite lost pets very quickly.
If your cat is an indoor cat, they usually won't venture far from home and will hide somewhere close by because they are frightened and being outside is unfamiliar to them. Check the immediate surroundings, especially late at night or early morning when it is quiet. If you can and it is safe to do so, leave a door or window open for them and follow the advice above to give them a scent to follow to find their way home.
If you find what appears to be a lost cat, please contact one of the local lost and found groups on social media. They have networks of volunteers and scanners who can come and scan the cat and are amazing at reuniting lost pets with their owners. When an animal is identified as actually needing rescue space, they work closely with many rescues across the North West including ourselves.
- If your cat is a rescue cat, contact ourselves or the rescue who you adopted them from. Most rescue cats are chipped to the rescue so they may be contacted first if your cat is scanned.
- on lost and found groups on Facebook who have a network of member who can look out for your cat. These groups include Moggies & Doggies, Scouse Pets2, Scouse Cats and Liverpool, UK - Lost Dogs, Cats & Pets. The more people aware that your cat is missing, the better.
- Contact local vets and contact chip company to let them know your cat is missing.
- Go out late at night or early in morning shaking biscuit box/tin and gently call him/her. If scared they will hide and only come out when they feel safe.
- Hang unwashed clothing or blanket on the line - cats can pick up your scent from a long way off and the scent carries in the wind
- Scatter used litter in the garden, again to give them their scent to follow.
- So many lost cats are found locked in nearby sheds and garages, or in neighbours' houses, empty houses, greenhouses, derelict buildings, cupboards, stuck in car engines, small gaps, brambles, rooftops and trees etc. so check and recheck any near you yourself as not everyone is on social media to see your posts.
- Check neighbours' front gardens and under bushes and vehicles in case s/he is injured.
- Knock doors and post leaflets with your contact number locally and ask people to check their sheds & garages whilst you are there, in case the cat is locked in. Put posters up with a photo and contact number.
- Ring the Council and all Vets including emergency Vets in the area to notify them.
If your cat is an indoor cat, they usually won't venture far from home and will hide somewhere close by because they are frightened and being outside is unfamiliar to them. Check the immediate surroundings, especially late at night or early morning when it is quiet. If you can and it is safe to do so, leave a door or window open for them and follow the advice above to give them a scent to follow to find their way home.
If you find what appears to be a lost cat, please contact one of the local lost and found groups on social media. They have networks of volunteers and scanners who can come and scan the cat and are amazing at reuniting lost pets with their owners. When an animal is identified as actually needing rescue space, they work closely with many rescues across the North West including ourselves.