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This one time I had a cat go missing for like a week when I was a kid.

We'd let our cats out of the house but they'd never stray far, and if they stayed gone it was usually only a day max, but after she never came back we figured she was dead. We looked around the neighborhood and called but she never came.

Later that night she comes meowing up to the front door like she'd been gone for an hour, not over a week. She wasn't skinny or sick, so we figured someone was feeding her.

Cats aren't helpless, even if it's cold outside your cat's probably still going to turn up in a day or two. It'll come back once it gets hungry enough or runs out of vermin to kill. It might have found a food dish somewhere else.

But yeah, try leaving out its litter box or some food, your cat will probably smell it and come. They really don't go all that far from home.

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  On 4/18/2018 at 4:40 AM, empty said:

This one time I had a cat go missing for like a week when I was a kid.

We'd let our cats out of the house but they'd never stray far, and if they stayed gone it was usually only a day max, but after she never came back we figured she was dead. We looked around the neighborhood and called but she never came.

Later that night she comes meowing up to the front door like she'd been gone for an hour, not over a week. She wasn't skinny or sick, so we figured someone was feeding her.

Cats aren't helpless, even if it's cold outside your cat's probably still going to turn up in a day or two. It'll come back once it gets hungry enough or runs out of vermin to kill. It might have found a food dish somewhere else.

But yeah, try leaving out its litter box or some food, your cat will probably smell it and come. They really don't go all that far from home.

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Dude I really hope you're right. He's only two. I took him because nobody else would. It'd be really shitty if I took him just so he could die in the cold. 

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  On 4/18/2018 at 6:08 AM, That_One_Guy said:

Dude I really hope you're right. He's only two. I took him because nobody else would. It'd be really shitty if I took him just so he could die in the cold. 

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i'm really serious that the cold isnt going to kill him. it's not dangerous for cats until its like -15. they find little nooks that are shielded from the wind and curl up. which btw you should make sure your trap is out of the wind or you could kill him if it's windy, he gets stuck in it, and its out in the open.

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  On 4/18/2018 at 6:15 AM, Poof said:

i'm really serious that the cold isnt going to kill him. it's not dangerous for cats until its like -15. they find little nooks that are shielded from the wind and curl up. which btw you should make sure your trap is out of the wind or you could kill him if it's windy, he gets stuck in it, and its out in the open.

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Thank you. You're really helping me stay hopeful he's alive. As far as the trap goes its close the house, it has bedding in it and I'm checking it every hour

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  On 4/18/2018 at 6:08 AM, That_One_Guy said:

Dude I really hope you're right. He's only two. I took him because nobody else would. It'd be really shitty if I took him just so he could die in the cold. 

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Yeah, Poof is right, it's pretty unlikely that a furry critter like a cat is going to freeze, they're great at finding warm hiding places.

It was ten degrees out one night and my cat wouldn't come in the house and the next morning she was fine.

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