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Questions tagged [lost-pet]

For questions about finding a lost pet, identifying the owner of a lost pet, questions about lost pets in general, and similar. Not to be confused with the tag "stray".

As long as the question includes relevant detail, and is generally focused on "lost pets", this tag should be included. Not to be confused with . Other related tags include , , , and .

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How to avoid accidental cat-napping?

At the start of the covid-19 lockdown our whole family was at home and the weather was very warm so we spent a lot of time in the garden. A lot of cats visit our garden and most ignore us but a very friendly tortoiseshell cat would turn up sometimes…
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What is the safest way to find a missing snake?

What is the safest way to find missing snakes if they are loose in your house?
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What else can we do to find our missing cat (2 days now)

What else can we do to find our cat? It’s been 36 hours. She goes out every now and then but never more than two hours; this is the longest she’s been gone. She snuck out late last night when my mom was letting the dogs out. It was raining almost…
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How can I read lost dog's collar tag without it biting me?

I sometimes discover lost dogs on the street that have a collar with a tag with maybe a contact phone to reach their owner. Since I don't know their character or if something happened and scared them or made them nervous, I have to admit I am a bit…
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Found our indoor cat after two months. Why do our other cats hiss when they see him? They were best of buddies for three years

Proud to say after two months and hundreds of flyers given out and posters and trail cameras set, someone spotted our cat 4km away and we got her back yesterday. We took her to the animal hospital and she is doing okay so far. She is currently…
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What percentage of "lost" cats are actually eaten?

Cats are often allowed to roam outdoors unsupervised where a dog would not be. I recently saw a craigslist ad about a cat missing for 8 years. My boy has been missing almost 8 years now and were not giving up. Source We know that birds of prey…
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Will my cat ever be the same?

He's 2 years old, has never been outside before, used to be the sweetest cat that would stalk me around the house and always want attention. He depended on me a lot since he was abused as a kitten and so I took him as my own. He was always an indoor…
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Are cats able to find their way back home if lost?

I have a cat which was at my place since its birth and we looked after him. Recently a neighbour had problems with him, so we had to leave him at a fish market around 2 kms from our home. But now I'm missing him and want him back, so I went to the…
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Good collar tracker for my deaf cat

I have a deaf cat, 7 years old, and I've been trying to find a tracker for her collar but there's so many different options I don't know which type is best. As she's deaf she's an indoor cat and so there's always the fear she'll get out and be lost…
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What to do if I cannot find my cat?

Introduction to my cat: I have a 10 months old male cat. He is almost a pet cat to us. He can enter our home whenever he wants to, but he usually spends most of his time inside our house. He is extremely sleepy, he sleeps almost 12 hours a day. He…
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Did my lost kitten return?

My 2 or 3 year old cat had 2 litters and raising the third one now. Her second litter had 5 kittens, one black, two gray tabbies, and two orange tabbies. One orange tabby was light orange. The mother brought them out on August 12, 2016. They already…
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Missing hermit crabs?

My little hermit crab joy has abandoned her shell last night and I have no idea where she is. I have no idea what happened and my other crabs look fine. She has never done anything like this before and she is usually active around the tank. She did…
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Neighbors claim to see our cat, but we can't find it

When I was going out of town I left my inside cat with my friends, but it ran away on the very first day (this happened about 4 weeks ago), so she never got to know my friends. When asking the neighbors if they ever saw the cat, four of them said:…
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I am missing a small White Cloud Mountain minnow in my newly set 20 gallon tank

I am missing a small White Cloud Mountain minnow in my newly set 20 gallon (76 L) tank. I just added it and 4 others to the tank less than a week ago. Now, I can only find 7 out of the 8 White Cloud Mountain minnows. Should I seek for it, moving all…
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Help in luring our missing since two weeks cat, which we've recently spotted in our neighbourhood

Please help me in my attempts to lure our cat! Our cat has been missing for two weeks and we saw her today few neighborhoods down. As mentioned in one of my previous questions, our cat went missing two weeks ago. Thanks to some help we received in…
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