Cats are going missing in my area?

Question

My cat went missing 12months ago, (she was micro chipped) I put up missing posters asked at the police station/shelters but had no luck. Since then I have noticed that my street which used to have loads of cats has slowly got less and less, now there is only one fat ginger cat that never seems to leave its owners garden.

Do you think this ginger cat has attacked and scared all the others away including my own? It seams very lazy an is quite laid back, however it is the only cat that remains, so it could be the explanation.

I was going to get a new cat, however I do not want to keep my cat indoors all the time. Do you think I should talk to the owner of this ginger cat?

Answer 1

That's what happens when you let your cat roam.



More then likely some one has been doing the responsible thing and live trapping the cats that have been crapping in their yard, digging in the trash, killing native wildlife and damaging private property and surrendering them to AC



Or some one may be cruel enough to leave out poison for the cats



Native predators could be killing off the stray and outside cats since the cats are competition for their natural prey and push out native predators so they have to eat something

Answer 2

I doubt the ginger cat has done anything, it would be unlikely that one fat ginger cat, couls scare all the cats in town, ginger mite of had a fight with one cat, but not all the cats, and if a cat got scared it would just go home and stay away from fat cats yard...



my guess there are racoons, coyotes, etc in the area going after the pets.....

cause if your cat had a microchip, if she turned up at a shelter they would have dont a chip search and seen she has an owner and would have contacted you......but you said its been a yr....she probably met the fate of a coyotes, coons etc......and since many cats have gone missing, it sounds like a preditor in the area



sorry about your kitty...but i would hold off on getting another kitty....unless you can keep it indoors til the true cause of the missing kitty's is solved

Answer 3

Im so sorry ur cat is missing i dont think its the ginger cats fault so many are going missing though.



I would say the reason he is the only one left is because he isnt leaving his garden. If he seems fat and lazy i doubt he is chasing other cats away and even if he was he wouldnt chase away any females espically if he isnt neutered.



The missing cats could b a coincidence but i fell there might be something sinister afoot. Its sounds very strange a neighbour being cleared of its cat.



Is there any nasty neighbours or someone that doesnt llike cats in the area?? I would ask your neighbours and see if they have noticed the same things as you they might have new information to give you too



good luck with everything

Answer 4

It's probably not the ginger cat.



But where I stay, alot of my neighbours had cats, and they would just walk around the street and the estate and no one would really think anything of it. But I think some people got really annoyed with them and we found out some people were using cat poison.



So sooner or later most of them died and some started sitting on our windows sills and they wanted to come in and we kept shooing them away.



There's not many now, only about three. But maybe the cat poison is something to mention, as the ginger cat you mention is lazy and doesn't really go anywhere is it likely he won't be affected by the poison.



Sorry if this scares you. Good luck!

Answer 5

I don't really wanna say this, but people could be putting anti-freeze in areas where the local cats go, and cats like anti-freeze. It kills them.

In rare cases, a truck drives through neighbourhoods and collects the pets. They take them back to a warehouse and well, get them ready for the plate. I'm not even joking. Google it.

This is really sad, and it upsets me that it's most likely a human cause, that these cats are going missing., I'm so sorry.

I doubt it was the ginger cat.

Answer 6

It might not be that cat. It could quite possibly be a different animal... We didn't really live out in the country, a neighborhood with pets, and after a few went missing, we got an email about a coyote near by, then later some wild Oklahoman cat (not the name, yea I know) was roaming around in the neighborhood... If its more than one gone missing, I doubt that cat has anything to do with it if it never leaves their property...

Answer 7

It may be that a neighbour is fed up with cats crapping in his garden. That's the main drawback with cats that roam. They shat in every other garden but their own. So the owner is usually blissfully unaware of the annoyance caused. I hope this is not the case, but people do snap and solve the problem by dispatching the offending cat.

Answer 8

Springfield, Massachusetts? What state? Do you have pictures of the cat? you need to run off one hundred or greater 8x11 posters together with her photograph, coaching and touch information - use greater effective than one telephone #. evaluate offering a reward for coaching that leads you to her. do no longer ask human beings to capture her because of the fact the kittens will then die - you will in no way understand the place she hid them. additionally make tear-off tabs alongside the backside of the poster. those tabs could desire to have a minimum of two telephone #s too if achieveable. Get some packs of push pins and a pair rolls of sparkling packing tape. you need to place those on the two aspects of each highway interior a a million/4 mile or so of your place. positioned them on application poles and the different place you could positioned them up. you will desire a minimum of one helper. stable luck. Googled the streets, looks you're in PA? What afflicted me it looks such as you're on the brink of the railroad. If that section is stuffed with weeds and shrubs it is going to complicated to discover her and she or he must be worried by ability of passing trains. besides to the posters you desire a seek occasion of mature human beings the cat knows and likes. No teenagers who're going to yell and run after her.

Answer 9

Cats are territorial but not to the extent that they would kill each other for that area. Specially enough that big numbers of them would disappear. Sounds more like you have a "cat burglar" of sorts. You could have kids around the area stealing the cats as pranks or (and i hate to say it) but some cultures eat animals that we consider pets. The cats could be being taken for meals...

Answer 10

my guess is that you have a bigger problem than a fat kitty. my guess is that there is fox or something in the neighborhood. i would hold out on getting a new cat if ur not gonna keep it indoors for now.

Answer 11

When in doubt, blame the ginger.

Answer 12

i didnt read that but my chinese shut down when the cats went missing

Answer 13

if she was micro chipped you should be able to findd her,