URGENT HELP please - can not find my kitten :(

[navyeyelasH]

I have a 17 week old kitten, she has not been chipped or spayed yet, but has had her first round of injections.

I have been keeping her indoors until she gets chipped and spayed and she has never been outside unles I've been with her.

Anyway, I last saw her at 11pm last night in the house but I haven't seen her since. I've looked all over the house and I can not see her, more importantly I can not hear her either.

I'm assuming because of this she must be outside, there is a tiny chance she may have jumped through a window on the first floor (at front of house) but to me it doesn't look like it was open enough?

I've rang local vets and the RSPCA, knocked on my neighbours doors and stuck about 250 flyers through the doors further down the street. I've been in the front and back garden calling her since 8am but can not see or hear her.

I'm worried sick. Can anyone think of other places she might be or how I can encourage her to find her way home or how I can find her if she is hurt somewhere.

We have a lot of foxes in this area so I'm so worried!

Please help

she will be safe and well somewhere like under your sofa or your bed.

put some food down in the kicthen and she will appear.

She's probably crawled into the space between two atoms, you know what kittens are like.

Put food down ad see if it vanishes. Something smelly tempting like tuna in oil.

rustle your food bowl, make some noises, pull out sofas and look under chests of draw3ers, airing cupboards, mine like to snooze in the under bed drawers. check hedges surrounding your property, often they are having a snooze in there.

I know it sounds silly but could she have crawled under a floorboard? I had a kitten that did this once, honestly!
Fireplace or chimmney? I second the putting food out and hope she turns up.

She'll have squeezed into the tiniest space! My youngest cats favourite hidey-hole is behind the freezer- no idea how that could be comfy!

As everyone else says- put some food out. She'll appear when she's hungry.

To ease your mind a bit: When I was 11 we moved from england to Aberdeen. Stopped off at my grans in Glasgow overnight on the way. My cat was 7 then, we let her out her basket at my grans in the afternoon. Noone left the flat after that, 3 floors up so we knew she couldn't have got out. By bedtime she'd disappeared completly. We searched everywhere- My gran tore her flat apart. No sign atall.
I was eventually persuaded to go to bed. When we got up the next day she was sitting in the kitchen with that 'I have no idea what all the fuss is about' look on her face.

Cats love doing their disappearing act.

We found our kitten inside the sofa once, no idea how she got in there. We had to slash the back open to get her out. I was frantic before we found her. Hope she turns up safe and sound for you.

Our current cat was a stray who we homed as a kitten; he was so nervous at first that he squeezed into a tiny hole in the boiler and stayed there for nearly 24 hours, popping out for food after a night of coaxing!
Fingers crossed she is safe and hiding somewhere .

Right, I have already taken up 3 floorboards downstairs and 2 upstiras, I've looked under everything and inside everything (literally, I even looked inside my car,the agrage (which has been locked!) the fridge and the freezer!). I've put food down for her, and her special cat nip treats she normally comes running for.

I will try tuna though!

I've wandered around my front and back garden garden and my neighbours gardens either side of me with her bag of dry food shaking it and calling her. there is a woods a bit behind my house I've been all through there again with her food.

No fireplace or chimney.

I'm just worried because if she is outside then she would have been out there overnight as I haven't seen her since 11pm. There are so many foxes in this area that I'm worried she is hurt/even dead .

I don't know what else to do?!

If you think she really may have got out, could you put a big poster up in the local shop/park/lamp-post?
I do hope she is hiding somewhere inside.
I am so sorry, it must be terribly scarey for you.

Check up in the trees in the woodland. our kittens go up trees in the evening and sit quietly for ages, until we are about to panic and they make a noise, and have trouble getting down. Also ours go out onto the roof from one of the bedrooms so might be worth looking there.

maamruby - I have already sat here quietly with eveyrthing off and can't hear anything. The airing cipboard is always kept closed, I checked in there anyway, removing eveyrhting but no sign of her.

Thecatatemygumsuit - I have flyered all the houses on my street and a street that comes off my street (she hasn't got a collar on as she isn't supposed to be outside!) I have made some posters which I will put up this evening. I hope she's inside too

Bollockbrain (nice name!) - I will have a check in the trees, there are trees in the garden and she is very good at climbing things she can get her claws into. I have assumed I'd be able to hear her meowing if I called her? Maybe I should recheck everywhere on the basis that she wont be making a noise?

Good luck with finding your kitten. First night we had our cat she went under the oven in the fitted kitchen the hole was so small we hadn't seen it! DH had to rip put skirting to free the cat - who promptly went back under there 10 mins later.

Also cat went missing overnight once - found her locked ina neighbours garage where she's sheltered from torrential rain - might be worth a try - we heard her when we called her name and walked by.

My kitten climbed into the space behind the saucepan drawer in the kitchen and the drawer shut with no apparent difficulty, it was only some time later that I heard mewing and realised where he was. Could he have got behind a drawer you have closed?

might be worth removing the kickboards in the kitchen and looking underneath. as evenstar says they can get under there form the back of the cupboards

All my cupboards are against the wall (if that makes sense?) and there is no way she could have got behind them to get into them.

I've already opened the bottom pull out drawers though to check she's not in there and she isn't!

Keep the obscure places coming though as I'm so worried now.

My kitten was once sitting happily in space between books and top of bottom shelf of bookcase, in shadows, watching me ( I'm sure) getting more and more frantic searching for him. I even had to phone work to say would be late as couldn't bear to leave without knowing where he was. They are amazing where they can hide and for how long!
Good luck. [fingers xed emoticon]

One of my cats went behind an old solid fuel boiler and climbed inside the casing after he moved to my mother's house when I left home. Do you have anywhere like that? You couldn't see from the front that there was a way in at the back.

In clothes drawers? behind tv? behind/ in curtains? Toy boxes- or in with cuddly toys? Washing basket?

Check outside up the trees again. In you car?

Really hope you find her.

Microwave? Washing machine?
Recycling bag/bin? Laundry basket?
Breadbin - a longshot but cats are incredibly good at getting into tiny spaces!
Am rooting for you.

I'm afraid we lost a kitten (for ever) inside a washing machine, she had climbed in and gone to sleep when DH shoved stuff in and put the machine on, (I had warned him to check but he forgot as he rushed through chores in a manly "efficient manner'). I still hate using the machine, the vet said it is a very common accident. Hope your kitten tirns up.

Any tall floor lamps she may have climbed into?

Looking around my house trying to think of all the strange places my cats have been found.

Oh, inside the duvet cover.

oh god, i hope she turns up and wiggly, how sad :(

it was highly traumatic, the kids were so upset with DH, everyone was howling.

scrab806ble - Ok just checked all bookshelves and other shelves in general; nothing.

Evenstar - I have a gas fire, but it's in a room that the door is always kept shut. I've had a look and I can't see her or a way for her to get in.

TheInvisibleManDidIt - checked clothes drawers and entire wardrobe, checked behind TV, checked in, on and around curtains, checked inside all toyboxes and also in some pull out craft drawers I have in the playroom and basically any other sort of drawer/box/cupboard. Just checked washing basket and have checked car 3 times already.

Thecatatemygymsuit - checked microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge, freezer, big black bin, little brown bin, all recycling bins, even looked in bread bin which is inside a high cupboard.

wigglybeezer - that's so sad. I have already checked the washing machine though, it's full of clean washing but no kitten.