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Help! The kittens have disappeared!!!

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Hurr1cane · 27/09/2014 08:37

Went out last night for 2 hours, before I went I fed the kittens and shut them in the living room.

I came home and looked for them, they're nowhere.

The living room door was still shut, but they were nowhere to be seen!

In my living room is a corner sofa. One chair, a TV and 2 Toy boxes and a fireplace. They aren't in any of them!!!

They are 4 orphaned/ dumped 6 week old kittens! How on earth have they vanished???? Where are they???

I've sat in there in the quiet and listened. No scratching. Now I've put food down and shut the door again hoping they'll eat then I'll know they're alive Sad but where on earth could they be!

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Quitelikely · 27/09/2014 13:56

I think the other cats may have something to go with this. I have never heard of someone committing a burglary for some kittens!

Clash1001 · 27/09/2014 13:56

This is odd, and sad Sad

I hope they turn up soon.

Quitelikely · 27/09/2014 13:58

I mean even if they were stuck in the chimney surely they would be crying by now?

How long did you have them? Do you know how long they were feral for? Is it not just a case of them being too independent and they have taken off out of the house somehow. Maybe they were ore capable than you realise iyswim

Castlemilk · 27/09/2014 13:59

I really don't think someone is likely to have taken them.

I think the fireplace is the best option, espcially if it could be the sort of place they might get into but would have difficulty getting out- cemented in sounds as if they might be nicely hidden, asleep, and silent.

As for the little one not venturing out, well this could be why they've gone - could be that as she stayed put, they didn't venture far and stuck together - and last night was the night she found her sea legs and so they all went adventuring!

Either that, or they got out somehow.

I'd get the fireplace knocked out.

wantacatplease · 27/09/2014 13:59

I'd go and question all neighbours who know you have them, just in case. Though you must be exhausted. Sad

RandallFloyd · 27/09/2014 14:00

I think the sofa is the most likely place.
I know you say you've checked it but corner sofas are huge, they could easily have got inside it and into a corner. If they're that tiny they'd be very hard to spot.

If I were you I'd stop looking. Put some food out, microwave it a bit, as MrsDV said, so it gets good and smelly. Then leave the room for a couple of hours at least. Leave the house if possible. They won't come out unless it's totally silent and 'safe'.

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Hurr1cane · 27/09/2014 14:00

I keep going through last night in my head. I fed them after I had a bath and shut the door. I went upstairs and got ready and came back down and checked and half the food was gone and all the milk was drunk.

Just before I left I popped my head in and there was a toilet roll (that was downstairs under the coffee table) unrolled near the sofa so I assumed all was fine and shut the door again and left.

I came back 2 hours later and went straight in and checked the living room door which was still closed. Then I went in and checked the bed which was empty and then went and looked under all the sofas and pulled the cushions off and DP asked what I was doing and said it's 3am they're asleep leave them.

We shut the door and we were just sat watching TV and chatting for a bit but I felt really uneasy about the lack of kitten noise so checked everywhere again.

DP went out the back and had a cig and came back in with tabbycat and ragdollcat following him, he shut the door and fed them some dreamies and then they just mooched about and went sniffing at the kitten bed and then DP went to bed.

I don't understand it. How could they just vanish?

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LIZS · 27/09/2014 14:01

Are your houses attached , could they have found their way through a chimney, floor or wall cavity between?

wantacatplease · 27/09/2014 14:01

Yes, what Castlemilk said makes sense.

LIZS · 27/09/2014 14:02

Under or inside the sofa base ?

Totesnamechanged · 27/09/2014 14:03

Do you know anyone with working dogs? My sil's cocker would sniff them out straight away and wouldn't harm them if found either.

BlueBrightBlue · 27/09/2014 14:04

Or bed base?
I once lost a cat and found it a few days later in a drawer, it was purring!

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Hurr1cane · 27/09/2014 14:06

Scared one isn't there. I've checked about 500 times. They have been with me since last Sunday night. Well one was with me Sunday night and the others Monday morning as they were all slowly caught. They were about 6 weeks old so now about 7 weeks.

One was very very vocal. Meowed all the time!

DP has just text suggesting I shove my phone through the gap and take some photos so I'm going to go and try that now.

They are definitely not in the sofa. I removed all of the cushions and took the sofa apart so it was two separate sofas and then turned them on their sides and went round them all.

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Hurr1cane · 27/09/2014 14:07

Houses are all attached, with one of those attics that goes through the entire row of houses with no walls between.

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BlueBrightBlue · 27/09/2014 14:07

Have you checked in you son's bed, pulled the covers back?
If there is a small gap under the living room door they can squeeze through.

BlueBrightBlue · 27/09/2014 14:10

Just read : FOUR KITTENS.

MissMillament · 27/09/2014 14:12

I would be pretty sure in that case that they have got through the gap and are in the chimney somewhere. Give it some time with food as other posters have suggested and they should get hungry and come back out. Mine used to find the tiniest gaps in the kitchen kickboards to squeeze through and stay in there for hours on end - don't give up hope of them coming out of their own accord just yet. If not out by the morning, then you will need to think about how to remove the fireplace fitting/enlarge the gap.

MrsEames · 27/09/2014 14:13

Could the mother cat have found them and carried them out? Have you checked the place they were ORIGINALLY found?

BelleateSebastian · 27/09/2014 14:13

I'm another one that thinks the chimney!

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Hurr1cane · 27/09/2014 14:14

Just done the photo thing with my phone. Quite satisfied they aren't in there now Confused where are they???

Help! The kittens have disappeared!!!
Help! The kittens have disappeared!!!
Help! The kittens have disappeared!!!
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Hurr1cane · 27/09/2014 14:15

Those weren't the only 3 photos I took loads from all different angles and then I photoshopped them to make them brighter still. No sign of kittens there

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wantacatplease · 27/09/2014 14:19

Ok I really think you should do the warm food thing and try and relax for
a bit, in the quiet.

Sizzlesthedog · 27/09/2014 14:19

I think they are in the chimney, stuck and too scared to come out. Is there a ledge up there.

Clash1001 · 27/09/2014 14:19

The noise and disturbance might be scaring them so they are hiding and being quiet?

I'd leave the room with the door shut and some food and water in the middle, see if that can coax the little buggers out.

Hope they turn up soon.

QueenFuri · 27/09/2014 14:24

They must be somewhere kittens are little buggers for getting into tight spots could they not have climbed up and found a gap. Id phone the non emergency fire service and explain the kittens possibly could be up the chimney they will come out straight away, when my moggy was stuck they appeared with flashing lights minutes later. Or you could do as others suggest and put food out leave and they will appear at some point. I really do hope they turn up I've been checking this thread all day.

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