And The Cat Came Back

In my last blog post I wrote about our new kitten. Unfortunately, a week later he got lose and has been running around our neighborhood for the last few days. Since he’s afraid of people he refuses to come to us when we have treats or he runs away when he sees us. 

We’ve decided that he’s nocturnal as he only comes out at night. Let me just say, that it’s extremely difficult to find a black kitten in the dead of night. A few times my roommates and I chased other animals thinking it was our kitten. We did however learn that there are a lot of raccoons in our area of Barrhaven,  so we went and bought locking garbage cans. Some good came of losing our cat I suppose… 

We left out some food for him and put his cages and his bed out in case he wanted somewhere dry and somewhat warm to sleep. It’s getting cold out now so we were really concerned about him. We even left our basement window open with some treats in the window sill if he wanted to come inside the house without us being around. Every morning we opened the basement door slowly just to make sure a raccoon didn’t sneak into our house. 

After three days of going out and attempting to catch him we decided that our strategy was not working and came up with a new plan of action. Our new plan of “action” was to do absolutely nothing. Chasing him was just causing him to run off so we decided to let him come to us. We took it in shifts one night and had one person sit outside and wait with treats. We sat out on the front porch and eventually he showed up. Picking him up was not working out for us so through text we came up with a new tactic. One of us slowly opened the garage door and hid around the corner while the other lured him towards it with treats. We tossed a few in and when he chased after them were shut the door. 

It’s been a few days now and he’s finally coming up from the basement to the main level where we all are and our adult cat doesn’t seem to mind him anymore. He’s still slightly afraid of us but he’s slowly becoming more comfortable but still only comes out at night…