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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
The main trick I've heard is to put the cat's litterbox on your front porch. Thankfully I've never had to test whether it works (and I don't actually have a front porch...)
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We had a cat that managed to get out, get away and get LOST, 2x, in the 90's and early aughts, when we lived in Scottsdale. The first time was bad enough--he was MIA for three days. (Both times, mind you, he disappeared on Thanksgiving day. I have NO idea why. Never disappeared during July 4th or the like. We had a larger enclosed yard, inside which they [normally] remained, but in both instances, something happened, or startled him or whatever, and he lost his balance and went over the wall--and then couldn't find his way home, the moron.)
The second time, he was gone for over a week and I was...well. Not great. I mention this due to the bizarre method I used, to get him home--I was told by an "expert" in this that when it's DRY and cold, as it was both Thanksgiving days, the cats can't pick up their scent trails, from their pads, to get home--to backtrack, IOW. So...(this was back before clumping litter), I took dirty catbox, filled pantyhose with dirty gravel and poop, and then I walked around the neighborhood, every single night, creating multiple stinky trails home. Dragged the nasty hose on the ground, over everything--walkways, grass (such as it was), street, you-name-it. Did that for 3 nights in a row...and on the morning of the 7th day, sure as s**t, I woke to find him sitting on my chest. Traumatized, lemme say, too. He was not (intentionally) an adventurous soul.
Today, with the godsend that is clumping litter, I have a "poop bucket" that is the clumps, poop, etc. that we gather 2x daily and then put out weekly in the disposal dumpster. So, except for one day/week, I
always have some to-hand, "Just in case." I refuse to throw it out, pretty much, on most days for that reason.
"Used" catbox seconded as a good helper, in other words.
Hitch