It's almost been a week, and there hasn't been an official confirmed sighting of my dear Amelia.
I've come to the determination that she isn't "hanging around the house". Between the storms, the lawn mowers, and whatever else hubbub has been happening in my neighborhood, I am convinced that she has been spooked from the general vicinity and is most likely lost and too disoriented to find her way home. I have scoured the woods, treelines, everywhere around my house, called and rattled food, left out her food dish, her bed, and her favorite toy near the back porch of our house (the place she is most familiar with) and there hasn't been any signs that she has returned home. Being that this is her first time out, it seems strange that so much time would elapse without her at least coming back to her home.
I'm so frightened for her, but I am resolved to find her! My action plan for today (and going forward for the next 8 weeks) is as follows:
1. Call or check at the Animal Control facility. As they are right next to each other, check in with the animal shelter as well.
2. Get home, and do a perimeter sweep of the yard just in case she has found her way back.
3. There are 3 people on my block that claim to feed strays. I have permission from them to access their yards and call and check for Amelia, and have given them a very detailed description of her in case they spot her. I'll go and search their yards.
4. Return home and wait for dark (about 9:00ish). Take my spotlight and head out and do laps around the yard, around my entire neighborhood area, and all the tree-lines, checking for eye reflections. I'll also be checking the yards again of the people who feed the strays. I'm hoping that she may have hooked up with some wild cats or something and is currently following them around.
On top of this, I'm keeping my CL ad as current as I can, I'm posting signs today up at the Petco and Petsmart for people to keep their eyes out for her, and I'm going to go out and expand my signs a little further to see if I can get any bites. I've been leaving that window open every night, my garage cracked every night, and I've enlisted the help of quite a few of my very nice neighbors who are keeping an eye out for her for me as well. If I see a single sign that she has returned to the home, I'll buy humane traps and set them about.
Is there ANYTHING that I am missing?
I've come to the determination that she isn't "hanging around the house". Between the storms, the lawn mowers, and whatever else hubbub has been happening in my neighborhood, I am convinced that she has been spooked from the general vicinity and is most likely lost and too disoriented to find her way home. I have scoured the woods, treelines, everywhere around my house, called and rattled food, left out her food dish, her bed, and her favorite toy near the back porch of our house (the place she is most familiar with) and there hasn't been any signs that she has returned home. Being that this is her first time out, it seems strange that so much time would elapse without her at least coming back to her home.
I'm so frightened for her, but I am resolved to find her! My action plan for today (and going forward for the next 8 weeks) is as follows:
1. Call or check at the Animal Control facility. As they are right next to each other, check in with the animal shelter as well.
2. Get home, and do a perimeter sweep of the yard just in case she has found her way back.
3. There are 3 people on my block that claim to feed strays. I have permission from them to access their yards and call and check for Amelia, and have given them a very detailed description of her in case they spot her. I'll go and search their yards.
4. Return home and wait for dark (about 9:00ish). Take my spotlight and head out and do laps around the yard, around my entire neighborhood area, and all the tree-lines, checking for eye reflections. I'll also be checking the yards again of the people who feed the strays. I'm hoping that she may have hooked up with some wild cats or something and is currently following them around.
On top of this, I'm keeping my CL ad as current as I can, I'm posting signs today up at the Petco and Petsmart for people to keep their eyes out for her, and I'm going to go out and expand my signs a little further to see if I can get any bites. I've been leaving that window open every night, my garage cracked every night, and I've enlisted the help of quite a few of my very nice neighbors who are keeping an eye out for her for me as well. If I see a single sign that she has returned to the home, I'll buy humane traps and set them about.
Is there ANYTHING that I am missing?
