LOST CAT: Black cat [name withheld] - Ashford-Kent area, Kent

Missing pet report received on Pets Reunited.

Report is now online.

Report added to PetWatch™ alert dispatch queue.

Report added to alert dispatch queue for local Vets and Rescue Centres around Ashford, Kent.

'Missing Pet' poster and flyer created

PetWatch™ follow up reminder scheduled for 05 July 2023

Local Vets and Rescue Centres reminder scheduled for 05 July 2023

Report dispatched via email to our local PetWatch alert subscribers.

Report dispatched via email to local Vets and Rescue Centres.

Added poster to *Fluffys lost and found pets in ashford kent, on Facebook. Also live on boys hall will check our shed when we get home, worth taking a poster down to sevington mill aswell and handed to any workman there x

Missing Cat Tips Firstly, check your own home, garden, and the immediate vicinity THOROUGHLY. Cats seldom stray far, but some of them have a positive genius for getting shut in sheds, garages, cars, greenhouses. Check also any standing water-butts, ponds or similar. Check under all bushes, deckingand in gardens, using a long stick and a torch if necessary. Knock on neighbours doors and ask them to check sheds/garages/outhouses WHILE YOU WAIT in case your cat has got shut in (cats are incredibly inquisitive!). Ask neighbours to prop open doors so if your cat is scared and hiding s/he doesn't miss the opportunity to get out if the door is only opened briefly. Your cat recognises the smell of home. Spread hoover contents around the outside of your house. Put your cat’s dirty litter try outside too. Hang dirty washing on your line, put smelly trainers in your garden with any cat bedding. Anything that smells familiar will help guide your cat home if s/he has lost their scent. Go out looking at night to check, when it is quiet and there is less traffic. Work your way back towards home as you call them, so not to inadvertently lead themfurther away from home. Take a powerful torch. Scatter used cat litter outside and leave out food. If possible, make sure there is a way for your cat to get back in the house even if you are asleep (eg, wedge open the cat flap). Next check all the surrounding streets, again checking under bushes and in undergrowth. If there are fields/woods nearby, thoroughly search these too.Check any empty houses as cats can get through the smallest of spaces. Keep doing all these things as when scared cats go into survival mode and may not even respond to their owner at first. Make posters/fliers and put them up anywhere and everywhere (eg stuck to telegraph poles and similar). Stick one in the back window of your car. Local shops, post office, pub, local primary schools (small children are incredibly observant) anywhere really. Ask local vets to display a copy. Speak to local postman and dog walkers to ask them to tell you if they see your cat. Consider printing off enough fliers to put them through people’s letterboxes down your street and in the area. Not everybody is on social media. If there are any distinctive physical conditions or characteristics about your cat, make sure you feature them prominently in any fliers, online appeals, etc. Alert all vets in the area and give them a description of your cat. Ask local vets to display a poster of your missing cat. Even if your cat is chipped, not all vets routine scan for a chip!!! Chips can also fail or migrate to anywhere in your cat. Ring the RSPCA/cats protection and any rescues in the area as any of these places may end up with him so best to give them a description too See if the local paper runs free lost and found pets ads. Check the found and make sure your pet is listed as lost. Again, not everybody is on Facebook. Use Facebook (set to public and tag yourself in your kitty’s photo so you can follow up any leads from subsequent shares) to share your missing cat. It is ESSENTIAL to include a clear photo, colour/breed/distinguishing features, where s/he has gone missing from (district, town and county) and when your cat was last seen. Say if your cat is chipped and neutered or not. Ask people to share/retweet. Share your cat to any local lost and found pets’pages, on national lost cat pages, on the Facebook pages of any local cat rescue groups, on local vetsand larger community groups. The bigger the audience of the groups you share to the better. Always include your post code and a mobile contact number. Ask everyone to share. If you are not on social media, ask a family member or friendly neighbour to do this for you. Follow up any and every lead you get until you have absolutely discounted 100% that this is your cat. Remember that most people are spectacularly unobservant and quite incapable of identifying a tom as a queen and vice versa. Contact the councils local street cleaning services, leave your contact number and chip number with them Keep checking vets and the shelters regardless of whether your cat is chipped or not. Do this weekly Check local re-homing and rescue sites particularly if your cat isn’t chipped Always check sites like gumtree and pets for homes etc If ordering rewards make it clear the conditions. You may end up with prank calls so please be aware not everyone is genuine Keep records of everywhere you’ve advertised so you can take down posters and update all social media posts with the good news. * Important - If your cat wasn’t chipped and neutered, please do both when they return home. ** Set cat flaps to in only List of useful websites to register with to reach those not on Facebook x Animalsearchuk.co.uk Petsreunited.com Doglost.co.uk (also accept cat listings) Also Next door app All four are free to register xx

Report closed by skyqu with an outcome of: Deceased

So sorry Skyqu x

Thank you for putting up posters and all the advice Jennamarie, I really appreciate the support x