To think - if I had the money I'd take dd and book a Travelodge so we can get some rest (cat related)

[catsbabyandchaos]

I have 2 cats and live in a second floor flat.

2 weeks ago one cat jumped out of the window () and for two nights kept me and probably everyone else in the flats awake yowling to come in. Except when I went out to try and get her back she ran off.

She has now done the same thing.

I was out there at fucking 4 in the morning sorry for language shaking whiskas kibbles to entice her. She knows it's my window as she howls outside it and I mean proper yowling that wakes you up but when I try to get her back just runs off.

I'm crying my eyes out I can't do another night like last night, I'm at work in the morning and have to be up at 6.

What the hell do I do ?

Close the window

Agree with former.

When I was in the flat, I used to lay a trail of Dreamies leading into the front hall and up the stairs. I'd then return to the flat, leave the door open and wait.

Keep the window closed or pot mesh over then or something so they can't get out.

Unless you might be able to put a cat flap in the door that leads to the fire escape?

YABU - you caused this problem, it would be very unreasonable to bog off and leave the cat yowling and keeping the neighbours awake!

Do what hidden said, put a few treats down and leave the doors open, but shut the bloody windows!

Have you considered re-homing them to somewhere that they can get outside? I know it doesn't help right now, but at least it will stop you worrying about how often you'll need to do this.

Dreamies. They're like crack to cats, seriously.

Oh dear

Make a scooby snack trail, prop outer door, then slam behind her as she trots in? Hopefully she'll be hungry soon.

How did the cat get out a second time? You'll need to either keep the windows closed or fit mesh screens. In the meantime, you'll need to figure out why the cat is running away from you? Is she bored or scared or just a brat? Making indoors more appealing might make her less likely to leg it at every chance.

And no, you can't just bugger off and leave your cat to drive the neighbours insane.

I do close the window but you know if I don't open it sometimes the smoke alarm would go off and the flat would stink.

Anyway I left my time machine on a train so I can't really do that now.

I just can't get her in. It's reduced me to an absolute wreck. I've been sat here crying as she's just making the most awful god forsaken noise that will continue into the early hours and I can't take it 2 nights running, I get hardly any sleep as it is.

I can't rehome them. No shelter would have them. Stuck with this shitty situation unfortunately for all of us.

I'm with others on the food trail. Something fairly stinky and tasty (fish like tuna or pilchards) at the end of a dreamies trail. Leave the windows open, stay a distance away quiet and hidden then shut the windows when she is in. When she's in, get a windows frame net so you can have air flowing but no escapees! Good luck.

I have tried food, her favourites, and she must be hungry as she hasn't been in since Friday but she won't come in.

She'll eat the food but won't enter the flats, and if I approach her to pick her up she runs off.

I can't do another night like last night, I just can't. It's horrible.

Dreamies really may succeed where all else fails.

Put the other cat out too and see if they both wander off, or both come back in.

If they wander off look for them in the morning.

She's maybe yowling for her pal, not to get in.

This sounds way too stressful to be workable on an ongoing basis.
How the heck do you manage in summer when it's hot?

I'd do the food thing for now, get her in and then only open window for few mins if you can get her shut in another room until you can get some mesh.

Tbh though, I'd rehome. Seems like your cat isn't happy being an indoor cat.

She would normally sell her soul for whiskas treats but they aren't working.

If I put her brother out I'd probably have 2 yowling cats under the window.

Carly I only moved in in September and it wasn't exactly through choice but a really horrible set of circumstances tbh. Bit of kindness would be nice, I'm absolutely at breaking point here. And I can't rehome. The shelters are full (I know this because my brother and I found a cat and kittens last month and the shelters couldn't take them. Luckily brother had them and we did a Facebook appeal and people took them.) if I dumped them somewhere they'd just be PTS.

Have you reached a point where you would prefer not to have the cats?
If so, advertise them on Gumtree. Someone might love a new free little moggy.

Is it possible one of your neighbours has frightened her and that's put her off coming in? If she is yowling at the window it could be she wants to come in that way. Is it an option to pop a ladder up so she can try to climb in?

Alternatively, could you rig a trap out of a box and some treats so when she goes in to eat it stops here getting out? Have you checked with your neighbours? Someone must be feeding her if she hasn't come home since Friday.

No, and I'm not advertising them in Gumtree. I want my cat to come in where she belongs or if she must stay out to shut up so we can all get some peace. In any case ry aren't lovely moggies they are grouchy, timid, not particularly attractive moggies, but they are mine.

What about closing window and turning off the lights, might she give up if there is no one to be seen?

Could a neighbor with a dog herd her in the direction of the stairs?

OP damn fine response to the idiot who suggested Gumtree. Hope you get your mog in very soon.

Pumpkin, I dont think so. They are ridiculously timid cats, always have been, they were rescue cats and so I don't really know what their history is. It took them a while to get used to me. Then they decided I was great. Now the girl has presumably decided she hates me again!

I think she's scared as she doesn't understand the entrance to the flats is how to get in. As obviously it doesn't look like her 'home'. If it's anything like the other week I just have to wait until she's so hungry she will just come in awful as that sounds.

Oh she'd be squashed if she saw a dog I think! She'd charge off towards the main road or the railway lines another worry

I know she will come back. But in the meantime she intermittently makes the most horrendous yowling noises and I know my reaction is ott, I'm just so bloody tired I feel SICK.

It doesn't sound awful, there is not much else you can do. Do you have a cat carrier? Would they come to that if their favourite bed and some dreamies were in it if it was positioned just outside the door?