Doesn't work on the girls. I haven't found anything to bribe them, yet. They either want to come when I call them or I simply have to wait until they do want.
It doesn't work on all my girls, only Busia. I have to go and get Silky right before I put the food down and bring her to the dining room.
Ellie doesn't ever eat canned food but neither does she hide.
Princess doesn't eat canned food either so it doesn't work on her...
Princess hides whenever
anyone comes over, which is rare... I had a new furnace installed and I had to put all 8 cats in the master bedroom so they wouldn't get out as the installers were going in and out. I got most of them using the canned food trick, and I was able to locate the others and throw them in the bedroom...
So then a few days later I had to have my heating ducts cleaned, and that was a major fiasco, since I did not know the guys would have to leave the front door open to do their work. Had I known, I would have rounded up all the cats before they got here. Well, I had to put all 8 cats in the bedroom again, but this time they were onto me since they remembered what happened a few days before so the food trick did not get them all in the bedroom....
One of the workers finally had to put a big pad over Nova and throw him in the bedroom, because nobody can get near him because he is dangerous, very small but very dangerous. I counted all the cats in the bedroom and there were 7 so I knew I had all the cats except Princess and she was nowhere to be found. I finally realized she must have jumped off the balcony from the upstairs to the downstairs and hid downstairs, and there she was, hiding in the laundry room behind a pillow between the washer and the dryer, none the worse for the big jump.... So I put her in the bedroom with the others, but then I couldn't find her later after the installers left, and she had gone under one of the bedside tables through a space that was only 3 inches tall.... When I flashed the flashlight on her all I could see was eyes....
But the story doesn't end there. The state electrical inspector had to come to check the installation about a week later. Princess hid again and was nowhere to be found. I was really worried she might have gotten outside because I know I looked everywhere, upstairs and downstairs. After looking for her for about an hour I finally decided to take a break and go down the road to pick up the empty trash can, which is a 15 minute walk, and I prayed all the way and all the way back. I always pray non-stop when cats are missing and I have no other options left!
So when I got back it came to me to check under the recliner sofa. There she was! I don't know how she got under there because there is no space to crawl under. I know God led me to that sofa, and this is not the first time such a thing has happened. Years ago, Silky got outside and I prayed and prayed and was led to where she was hiding.
I have lived here for 14 years and had many more than 8 cats but I have never lost one to the outdoors and I don't plan to start now! It is raccoon-land out there and my prissy Persians would not survive outside overnight.
