If your cat was outside and you shouted it in...

[louise5754]

Would it run home?

Obviously it depends on whether it's hungry or just ignoring you but on average?

I told my pal our male cat knows the word Dreamies and she told me I need sectioned 🤪 I am forwarding this!

50:50 to a voice call.
Pretty guatenteed with a shake of a dreamie packet.

If he's been out a while and hasn't seen us then yes. He'll run up to say hello but you have to grab him to get him in.

If we need him in then its a dreamies packet rattle and he comes running. Except he knows it means he's going to be shut in so sometimes, usually when he's under the car we're about to drive, he refuses. We then have to get out the malt paste and show him that we're opening it and he's out like a shot!

When we lost him I walked round the neighbourhood rattling dreamies and calling his name. I attracted all the cats and dogs (they roam free here) in the area.

If I tell Magic to go and find Cheddar she does.

They occasionally deign to come in when called. But only go into the garden. So it's easy to get them in. When there was a hole in the fence, they'd go walk about. But I could call Cheddar and she'd answer me. So could track her down. She can be very loud!

I feed my cats before bedtime, so it's easy to get them in for a headcount with that inducement. I make a loud chirrupy trill for them. It sometimes take fluffy cat 10 minutes to make her way back from the fields where she's been tormenting voles, or the neighbour's garden where she's been winding up their dachshunds.

Usually, yes.

One comes running when i whistle. The other is never far from the garden and comes to her name.

Dcat always comes to the shake of a packet of dreamies!

I don't need to call mine. The sounds of our doors opening is sufficient. My cat is old and doesn't go too far.

Yes, he always appears very quickly when I call him. And if he's out at night and I go to the bathroom, he'll see the light go on and come running home! He never wanders too far away.

We just shout “treats!” - they are in like two little rockets!

As long as they haven't just gone out - yes. Usually get 2 out of 3, regardless of whose name I call though!

Only if I sounded like a dreamies packet being shaken. I had my old cat “trained” to a little bell. Must find it and try it with this one, though it might be too late.

When I was 12 I looked after a neighbours cat for a week whilst they were away. I went round to 'meet' the cat and get my instructions - if the cat wasn't inside when its food was ready I was told to go to the garden and shout in a really high pitched voice "pusseeeeee......teeeeaaa" You can imagine how embarrassing my 12 year old self found that!! Never bloody worked for me anyway and I didn't see the cat all week! Apparently i didn't emphasize the right eeee sounds .

Oh yes absolutely. Just as long as there isn't anything anywhere nearby even slightly more interesting than me, and she's in the mood. So actually no, hardly ever. 🤣

One would and I'm not sure the other even knows her name. She cant even work out the cat flap, she's my special girl.

My old girl would (before she went deaf) come when called.

On one occasion, we were visiting PiL's house in a different city and somebody accidentally let her out. It was a while before we realised she wasn't in the house, so she could have got very lost. We stood outside and did the embarrassing loud high-pitched squeaky calling of her name, and after several long minutes she appeared, a couple of garage roofs away, calling back accusingly at us in a kind of "Where have you been?" way.

Yeah mine would, but she's never far away.

She'd most likely ignore my husband unless she was hungry.

If she is near enough to hear I can do a chirrup noise that she nearly always responds to, but its quite quiet so doesnt work over a long distance. She might respond to her name, but is more likely to come to the sound of her treat tin being shaken. Unless she doesn't want to. Then she won't.

I always shout kitties, when I am about to feed my cats. Any outside within hearing distance would come running. I have 2 cats 1 stays in most of time snoozing and other younger cat pops out then comes back in.

Yes, unless he was hoping to stay out and hid in the bushes (where I can clearly see him, but he thinks I can't)

I have to do it some evenings if they've managed to stay out after dark, because the wallies can't seem to find their own way home - so I turn on the porch light and yell for them, and they come sprinting out of the dark at me.

Might depend on the tone of the shouting. A nice loving call will likely get a result. A gruff shout , no.

2 would, 1 only if he wanted to. 1 never leaves the house.

Yes, unless he's chasing something.

But 99% of the time yes.

Probably not without me simultaneously shaking the Dreamies box!