Advice & Tips if you have Lost your Cat |
| 1. Don't panic. 2. Search the area. Look in gardens, sheds, garages, and your neighbours sofa. 3. Make leaflets to post through doors in neighbouring roads as well as your own street. Cats roam across gardens. If possible include a photo of your lost cat, if not a description, where the cat was last seen as well as your contact number. Ask your neighbours to check their sheds, garages, and spare rooms. 4. Make posters to put up around your area. Provide much the same details as that of the leaflet. Print 'LOST' in large letters and make the photo big. It needs to make passers-by stop and read it. Pin them (with permission) in Post Offices, outside schools, bus shelters, launderettes, pubs, vet notice boards etc. If your cat has been spotted include a map and show clearly where he was last seen and when. 5. If your cat is chipped notify the Microchip Company that the cat is lost. (Always remember to change your address with the Microchip Company if you move!) {PLEASE DON’T FORGET!} 6. E-mail or call us on 01273 422721 / 07990812669 7. Advertise your lost cat in the local paper. This expense may be covered by your pet insurance. 8. Continue to walk the area at dawn and dusk if possible, calling your cats name, shaking a box of biscuits or rattling his/her bowl. Leave food out for the cat. If you do not have a cat flap, leave somewhere dry and warm for the cat to shelter. Place a small amount of his/her used cat litter in your garden or near your door. Tie your sock or a rag, which you have slept on where the cat was last seen. Your cat will recognise your smell. 9. Do not give up Hope - Cats have been known to return months later. Also try calling or going on-line Vets in the area: http://www.any-uk-vet.co.uk/county/eastsussex.htm City Cat Shelter - 01273 606843 RSPCA Patcham - 01273 554218 (H/ O– 0870 5555999) http://www.rspca-brighton.co.uk Cat Protection League - 01273 279148 http://www.brightoncatsprotection.org.uk Brighton Council - 01273 290000 'Worthing Cat Welfare’ like us are aware that there are a great many unneutered/unspayed pusscats going awol when on heat, so that when people lose their pusscats they often don't realise how big an area they need to cover, especially as there has been an increase in cats getting into delivery vans etc and ending up in completely different areas, so we are hoping that by “spreading the net” to a wider area, it will give owners the best possible chance of re-uniting with their loved cats/kittens etc: http://www.worthingcatwelfare.co.uk For Mid-Sussex try our friends at ‘Paws & Claws’ Animal Rescue: http://www.pawsandclaws-ars.org.uk National Pet Register: http://www.nationalpetregister.org Other Useful Sites A wonderful forum for cat-lovers nationwide: ‘Purrs In Our Hearts’ is a great cat oriented site with many helpful members: http://www.chaptanservices.com/purrs/index.php For Sussex area ‘Get Set Pet’ is devoted to providing good pet parenting by offering impartial information to your local services, to support you in caring for your pets. And are dedicated to raising local awareness of the remarkable work that so many rescue centres and volunteers do across the country and will try their best to help: |