# Where's my kitten? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468 "2013-08-29T03:35:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/41 "2013-08-30T16:44:29Z")
Our kitty Amira was part of a litter that the Mom had decided to put in a dryer vent. My friend Minirth couldn’t dry her clothes until she had rescued the kittens. When we brought Amira home, we put her in a room that we had been re-decorating, and she managed to get into the wall. The whole story is [here](http://zyada.livejournal.com/486761.html) complete with pictures. Her name was originally Narcissa. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/42 "2013-08-30T17:33:06Z")
My friend has luck tying little bells around her cat’s neck. Might wanna try that in the future. ---
**Author:** ![boozilu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@boozilu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boozilu)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/43 "2013-08-30T18:25:22Z")
My daughter’s hamster recently escaped from his exer-ball. We were sure we had him trapped and were waiting for him to emerge when the dog found him in a completely different part of the room. (We got there before the dog figured out what to do with him.) I know this thread is about cats, but I’m allergic so posted this instead! ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/44 "2013-08-31T04:36:26Z")
Mama will hide a baby if she feels he/she is not getting their fair share of food, so she can nurse it alone. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/45 "2013-09-01T08:43:52Z")
Last week, a friend was having work done on her house & the workman left a hole in the baseboard unattended. Her cat took off right down it. She was on the phone to me crying, on Facebook asking for prayers & almost hysterical. Finally after an hour, her Mom had a feeling they needed to look in the closet. (Where they had looked multiple times.) There he was! Totally covered in dust & cobwebs so that this B&W tuxedo cat looked totally gray. After a good bath, what did he do? The little shit went right back to where the hole, now totally covered, was. 😛 He’s can simultaneously be a sweet & brilliant baby, a total goofball, and of course an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/46 "2013-09-01T22:04:12Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > He’s can simultaneously be a sweet & brilliant baby, a total goofball, and of course an asshole. In other words, a cat. StG ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/47 "2013-09-01T22:22:34Z")
Was it on this board many years ago somebody had a kitten go walkabout and wound up in the clothes dryer? Did a tumble for a minute or three but was no worse for wear afterall. What I remember most was the kitten renamed Bounce. Tried to search but I don’t have enough to go on. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/48 "2013-09-01T22:54:09Z")
Wow, **turtlescanfly**. You have a cat, 4 kittens, and a dog? That’s a lot of pets. I’m envious. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/49 "2013-09-02T01:28:22Z")
> [@want2befree](#): > > I think that the original comment was blowing things out of proportion. I mean seriously, kittens don’t need to be “watched” every minute of the day. That’s the whole point of having cats. > > I am very sorry about that kitten. We recently adopted three kittens. We don’t watch them every minute. It has taken us a month acclimatizing them to their older brother and older sister, and the house in general. They still get sent to their room every night because they haven’t learned to chill out at night. We thought our house was kitten-proof. More kitten-resistant, actually. Kittens can get into trouble that endanger their lives. They can also get into trouble that endanger my life. Until the mature enough to eliminate both, some parts of our home remain off-limits and they are watched, but not all the time. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/50 "2013-09-02T02:27:38Z")
Good thing you found the cat. Could have been a lot [worse](http://www.chrisspivey.co.uk/?p=11083). ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/51 "2013-09-02T08:04:46Z")
> [@turtlescanfly](#): > > Hi All, thanks for your kind concern and helpful suggestions. I did actually already search most of the places mentioned (stove, under the furnace, couch THOROUGHLY since that was the last place seen). I was worried sick all day but just got home from work. > > Looked around before getting on the dope. Mama cat was in her basket with ONLY 3 kittens (I was sure she would have found it by now). I searched everywhere again (you cannot believe how thoroughly I inspected this couch) and finally noticed that the clothes hamper in my closet was tipped over, leaning against the back wall. Now, I can tell you last night the kitten was not there, because I checked (and took all the clothes out doing so. leaving it empty). And of course I left it upright. Peeking in I see mama cat (it had been about 20 minutes since I looked in on her before) and of course a little closer I see missing kitten:D. Mama must have put it there sometime after I checked last night. Don’t know why she didn’t put it with the other ones (it might be because I have the basket up on a table in my bedroom to keep it away from the dog… she can get in and out easy enough but maybe not carrying a kitten). WHEW! So relieved… what a crap day worrying about it. I never would have forgiven myself if something awful had happened. > > Anyway, here’s to happy endings:) VERY relieved that the babycat has been safely located and reunited with Mama and siblings. Now WHERE are those kitten pictures? (folds arms, taps foot) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/52 "2013-09-02T08:07:13Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Thanks for the update, **turtlescanfly**. > We live in a small one-floor house and our twenty-pound Maine Coon can STILL hide himself sometimes. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve asked each other how we can lose a cat that big in a house that small. He always comes sauntering out later (making absolutely sure we didn’t see where he came from, the little bastard) and seems extra-smug at his successful hiding. Our twelve-pound Siamese mix is a champion at this. I’ve come to the conclusion that cats are capable of inter-dimensional travel. In one cat group I participate in on Facebook (started on Usenet), we “fondly” call this a BCT (Bastard Cat Trick). They do it for the fun of watching the humans freak out. ---
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/53 "2013-09-03T05:43:11Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Thanks for the update, **turtlescanfly**. > We live in a small one-floor house and our twenty-pound Maine Coon can STILL hide himself sometimes. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve asked each other how we can lose a cat that big in a house that small. He always comes sauntering out later (making absolutely sure we didn’t see where he came from, the little bastard) and seems extra-smug at his successful hiding. Day two of our move to DC, Hubby and I wound up with a young cat. A few months later a repairman had to come in and I lost the cat. I searched everywhere all three hall floors, basement and laundryroom, around the outside of the building. Took another sweep of the apartment, the efficiency apartment! No luck finding her. Several hours later Hubby comes home and I have to tell him the cat is gone. We start making dinner and we hear a sound, look around the corner and the cat is coming out from behind the entertainment center. She never did well with other people attacked a friend’s son when he sat on the couch she was under once. Laid my upper arm open during one of her ‘I’m going to run from one end of the apartment to the other without touching the floor’ runs. She richocheted off me enroute to the love seat. She didn’t get to go to Italy on our next transfer. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/54 "2013-09-03T06:16:34Z")
Glad you found the kitten. Those kittens are going to be a lot more active soon. A basket on top of a dresser is not safe. If you need to keep a dog away from them, keep them in a room away from the dog with the door closed. You may want to start doing more kitten-proofing as well. If there is something to get into or electrical cords to chew on they will find it. Think about the potential dangers of everything even if you wouldn’t think it could be dangerous. I remember reading a heartbreaking story about a kitten that climbed into a litter bucket, another cat must have jumped on top closing the lid and the kitten suffocated. Good luck with them! ---
**Author:** ![turtlescanfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/55 "2013-09-03T20:22:10Z")
OK, before I get booted off for disobeying “the rules” here are the pictures of my pets. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/100980786@N04/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/100980786@N04/) The first is the troublemaker that started it all. The 3rd and 4th I might have gotten a picture of the same kitten, but they both look virtually identical, so there you go. Mama cat (Cookie)should be obvious (and yes, she always has that “I’d rather be elsewhere look”). And the dog (Ziggy), who can’t figure out what’s so special about these little balls of fluff… **WileE** thanks for the tip, I’d actually already moved them onto the floor. I’m not too worried about the dog, he really is a little bit afraid of them (or afraid of what Cookie will do to him if she catches him near her babies!), but I keep them separated as much as possible. We will probably only be keeping 1 kitten at most, finding good homes for the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/56 "2013-09-03T20:26:01Z")
Squeeeeee!!! Kittens can’t help but be adorable. Thanks for the pics, they made me smile and just now I really need something to smile about. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/57 "2013-09-03T20:33:26Z")
Glad your kitten was found safe and healthy! My first thought was that the mother had stowed it somewhere. I’ve only lived with one mother cat (and it was to a litter of 7, poor thing) and probably due to how full and tumultuous our household was at the time, she would move them all over. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/58 "2013-09-03T20:50:08Z")
> [@turtlescanfly](#): > > OK, before I get booted off for disobeying “the rules” here are the pictures of my pets. > > [http://www.flickr.com/photos/100980786@N04/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/100980786@N04/) Your Cute Kitty Quota is met. Make sure to stock up on pictures in case you need them later, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/59 "2013-09-03T21:38:01Z")
Holy freaking crap, those are cute kittens. I’ll take one. Put it in one of those flat rate USPS boxes and punch holes in it (the box, that is). Send it on over. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/60 "2013-09-03T21:49:24Z")
OMG I am hyperventilating from teh cuteness!!! \*\*\* head explodes \*\*\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468.md?page=4)