Got a beautiful cat yesterday, now I cant find her!

[MrsPresley]

We got a lovely 7 month old cat yesterday (or is she still a kitten?)

Anyway last night she hid under the sofa so I left food out for her and during the night she has ate a little food and used her litter tray. This morning she was still hiding under the sofa so I left her there (the recliner bit is up just in case she couldnt work out how to get back out).

I went out this morning for a wee while but since I came home there's no sign of her. I've looked everywhere, checked on/under beds, we live in a flat so there's not exactly loads of places, all wardrobe and cupboard doors and windows were closed so I'm pretty sure she's still here, somewhere.

She's not making any noise at all. I dont mind if she wants to hide for a few days/weeks till she gets used to being here but I wish she would hide where I can see her!

I'm going to go out again for a while and hope she eats or uses the tray again before I come back (she hasn't done either this morning)

I'm assuming this is normal for them to hide away like this?

Yes very normal. We had one who used to do this and I never did find out where he went. We've had them 4 years now and he still finds some strange places to sleep sometimes but is generally in full view. She will come out when she feels settled.

Hope you enjoy her!

Our kitten went missing the day after we got her. I was beside myself. She had gone under a chest of drawers and then climbed into the bottom drawer through a gap in the back. Did not think to look in there as it had been firmly close since her arrival. Hope you find yours soon.

Thanks Listmaker, I'm sure we will We had a dog until he died last year and unfortunately we cant get another one so we decided to get a cat. Her name is Tiggy and she really is sweet, all browny/stripey with a white front and gorgeous goldy coloured eyes

Egg you must have been frantic!

Is this all the worry I've got in front of me now I though as the kids got older my worries would lessen not start again

I couln't find our rescue cat not long after we got him - convinced myself he'd run away when the door wa sopen. Turne dout he was on a shelf unit behind teh dvds..

Did you find her yet? I was indeed frantic, I had my dad searching the streets (even though I was sure she couldnt have got out). She was only 8 weeks old and I had a few holes in the floorboards so I had pulled them all up thinking she must have gone down there (holes were in fact barely big enough for a hamster to get down but I was convinced that she was either under the floor or had been eaten by a rat).

I lost my cat in the house on Saturday night, we've had her nearly a year and a half, so she's not even got an excuse for hiding...

I went to feed the cats and only one appeared, so I wandered round the house a bit calling her, she didn't appear (she usually does) so I started looking in bedrooms and cupboards, still no cat.

She quite often sneaks up to bed with DD so I went and looked again, D woke up a bit - I said, I'm looking for the cat, she nodded and went back to sleep, still no cat.

I thought maybe she had run outside when I nipped out earlier, now she does go out, but not at night and it was about -3, so I went to call her in (again she usually comes) still no cat.

So, I'm now at about 2am, peering outside, wanting to go to bed - but worried about the kitten freezing if I do (like I said, she's nearly a year and a half, but for some reason she's still the kitten, lol)...off I go out in my winter gear, wandering round cars whistling and shouting flumpy (her name's actually flump, but she answers better to flumpy) till it gets too cold for me.

I come back in wait until I've heated up a bit and go and call her again, before finally giving up just after 3am - only I can't sleep as I'm worried she might be wanting in and I won't hear her (she's got the world's tiniest meow) and I don't drop off till about 4 am.

I get up and she's been in DD's bedroom all night DD says when I said I was looking for the cat she thought I was asking if she had the cat, so she nodded - DD then says, that the cat was in fact on teh window sill most of the night behind the curtains...

That means that all the time I was outside acting like a complete numpty and half dying of hypothermia - the cat was sitting on a window sill inside my warm house, WATCHING ME

Good job I'm quite fond of her really.

I think they like scaring you, like a little cat hobby or something, lol

I stare at the doorstep when I call my cat or he sneaks in past your feet and waits on the stairs while I call him. Doesn't make a sound. Neighbours must think I'm trying to call the box tree in.

They like to wind us up.

My brother was kitten sitting for me at his house. He left the kitten in the kitchen eating and went back in 5 minutes later and she had gone. After much worrying and hunting around, they found a small gap under a kitchen unit which led under the floor and they found the kitten in the space under the kitchen floor.

A lot of mess trying to get humans under there to get her out but she was fine (although i don't think DB will catsit again!)

Finally found her, I havn't a clue where she has been but obviously went back under the sofa at some point, then she scooted past me and into my room where she has been for the last couple of hours.

She still hasnt eaten anything else though or used her tray, that's been since before 6am when I got up. I'm not sure if that's normal or not.

I've put a wee dish of meat in the bedroom hoping she will eat something but I'm not sure if moving her dish around after her will confuse her more. Should I just keep it in the kitchen? (it was in the sitting room last night) and hope she will eat during the night when the house is quieter.

Its quite normal for them to hide for a few days ,please don't worry .My kitten hid under my sons bed for days , now hes a bloody maniac

Bribe her with tuna in springwater?