like that.
Our cat disappeared for about 48 hours 2 days after we first got it. The cat suddenly reappeared. A poster on here told me about "cat space" where cats disappear to for a couple days at a time.
Don't worry, leave the food and water out, she'll be back
if you have a Nest or Blink camera you could set it up to watch the food/water/litter box, turn the motion detection feature on, and know when the cat trips the detection to go feed/drink/poop.
After a couple of days it should at least give you a good idea if the cat is still hiding down there somewhere.
space in attempts to find the cat.
overnight. Those little fellows can’t resist a fresh lasagna.
with a flashlight. After all, that's why it's called a crawl space.
No joy there, no joy in the space under the stairs.
the cat is now hiding elsewhere in the house. Is there any opening from your crawl space to the outside? If so, she is probably making like Andy Dufresne and is on her way to Mexico.
ExGF’s kitten once hid in her’s while she tore her place apart looking for the damn thing.
I read about a lady who was over 400 lbs. She went in for a C-Section and while the surgery was being performed, the doctor, in unfolding layers of belly fat, found a tv remote control that was layered between several folds of flesh.
After the surgery, when the doctor presented the remote control to the new mother, the lady said, "Hey! I've been looking for that! It's been missing for a few months!"
no lie
in the house. Cats are masters at hiding. We had a cat that seemed to know when we were getting ready to take him to the vet and would be impossible to find. I can't tell you how many vet appointments we had to reschedule because of that.
as a kitten did that for the first two weeks. He would hide under the TV stand in my computer room and would only come out to eat, drink water and use the litter box and only if my girlfriend and I weren't around. I am sure the cat will come out to use the litter box and to eat and drink when it gets hungry and thirsty enough and can no longer resist the urge to go. If she is trapped in the crawl space, she will eventually start meowing loudly but I doubt that she is trapped. If she found her way into the crawl space, she will find her was out.
If she's hiding in a specific place and needs some decompression time, that's fine, but I worry not knowing if she's stuck or something.
They also judge spaces before entering, using their whiskers, so they don't go in if it's really too tight.
but generally speaking, there should be nothing anywhere under there that she could get trapped in. If she does, as I said, she will start meowing loudly. If that happens, you will probably have to call a professional pest trapper to rescue her the same as if a raccoon or a chupacabra got stuck under there.
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One time it occurred when we were having work done and I thought we’d finished drywall with her behind the wall. That wasn’t the case but she’d found a gap in an unfinished area of the house. We could see her but she was afraid to come out. We stuck a plate of food near the area and she eventually came out when she was hungry.
My wife once brought home a cat from "Feral Friends."
It got down in the crawl space and was impossible to get out. We finally (after several days) caught it in a racoon trap.
That cat lived under our bed for over a year. It would eat at night. The only way we could pet it was by hanging an arm off the side of the bed and it would come to us.
Fast forward a couple of years... it was the sweetest, kindest cat I've ever been around. It would sit in our laps for hours and let us pet it.
Our second cat wouldn’t leave the spare bedroom for about 3 months, even when we left the door open
Cats are a pain in the ass.
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But she may still hide for a couple days. My understanding is it's pretty common for cats to find a small space to hide when brought to a new home, which is why it's often advised to plan to keep them in one enclosed room for the first several days. Your daughter should find a quiet activity to do in the utility room from time to time, to let the cat get familiar with her presence without being alarmed. I wouldn't panic unless there's no sign of food/litter use all day today.
Right now, it's in our kitchen, where we eventually at least want it to be.