We were thrilled to get the call about about Sassy because she lives right down the street from us! She been missing about 4 days but there had been a sighting just the evening before about four houses away so it seemed like a slam dunk. Unfortunately, as luck would have it, the one neighbor who would not give us permission to search, was exactly the one neighbor where Tango gave a full alert at the point where the kitty squeezed under the fence. We tried from every other angle but had no luck. Since Tango had also given a full alert at a driveway culvert nearby, I figured sassy had been using that culvert as shelter from predators while she worked up her nerve to go home. So Sassy's family came to my house and borrowed a trap and set it inside the culvert where sassy was trapped within an hour. Sassy has a big happy family and they all pitched in to get her home.
Tango found Louie in less than a minute!
There was a lot going on in Louie's busy household today....Carpet layers, painters, house cleaners.
The most probable time for Louie to have escaped was when the carpet installer left the door open for a minute and 45 seconds according to the video doorbell. However, since the video doorbell didn't catch him leaving, I assumed that Louie was still in the house. Tango got Louie's scent off the back of the sofa where Louie normally hangs out and went to work immediately checking the kitchen cupboards. When she found the six-month-old kitty's scent under the dishwasher, her behavior and body language was unmistakable and I knew that Louis had to be hiding under there somehow. Once we removed a couple of screws from the kick plate of the dishwasher we saw Louis hiding in the far back corner. Good job Tango!
Tango found Louie in less than a minute!
There was a lot going on in Louie's busy household today....Carpet layers, painters, house cleaners.
The most probable time for Louie to have escaped was when the carpet installer left the door open for a minute and 45 seconds according to the video doorbell. However, since the video doorbell didn't catch him leaving, I assumed that Louie was still in the house. Tango got Louie's scent off the back of the sofa where Louie normally hangs out and went to work immediately checking the kitchen cupboards. When she found the six-month-old kitty's scent under the dishwasher, her behavior and body language was unmistakable and I knew that Louis had to be hiding under there somehow. Once we removed a couple of screws from the kick plate of the dishwasher we saw Louis hiding in the far back corner. Good job Tango!
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Idabel found Rory, a Scottish Fold kitty, hiding in this messy garage today. He had been missing for four days. Navigating all those trikes, bikes, and toys was tricky, but Ida channeled her inner ballerina and didn't break anything!
This doesn't happen very often... Where the cat we've located comes waltzing right out of her hiding place AND my search dog is already secured in my vehicle AND I have a free hand to pull out my phone. Seriously, the stars have to line up just right for this to happen!
Buck found Smidge in a neighbor's backyard, completely concealed by a large woodpile where she had probably been for the four or five days she has been missing. We couldn't see her at all so I had to go get Idabel to confirm Buck's find. Deb, my client, had described Smidge as being extremely skittish and hard to pick up, so I was really surprised that the cat emerged from the woodpile within a few minutes of Deb and I sitting there, talking. This video makes it look like an easy recovery right? Unfortunately Smidge panicked when Deb tried to pick her up and she bolted over a fence and we had to use Idabel to locate her again in a storm drain nearby. We had traps set at both openings to the storm drain but she bypassed them and ended up back in the exact same woodpile where we found her originally, and she got home later that night. Not exactly a textbook recovery but we'll take any recovery we can get!
Finding Buddy
Here's the short story: Buddy, a young cat, had been missing for 3 days. Unfortunately, he was unwell when he went missing, so I feared he might not be alive when we found him. When Buck, my new dog, said Buddy was under this shed, I used my other two dogs to confirm his story lol. (I'll post their videos in the comments. Here's the owner's story of the search for Buddy.
This is a crazy story, but I promise worth reading..
Our sweet Buddy cat went missing for 3-4 days last week. We really feared the worst, especially with as much wildlife(bobcats, coyotes) we have here. Buddy would come in and out, but usually would come in at night, and then back out in the morning. And was always on our porch, or in our neighbors yard playing with her cat and terriorizing her puppy 😬. So for him to be missing for days, was not good. He finally came home last Wednesday night. He was skin and bones and not himself at all. I knew I should have taken him to the vet that moment but didn’t 😢. Absolutely ZERO excuses for me to not take him when we realized he was not ok that night.
Sure enough he was gone again the next day.
Last night, I finally couldn’t stand it anymore and had to do something. I contacted Texas Pet Detectives Association here in Grapevine. She came out today with her search dogs. One by one(at separate times) they each picked up his scent under the shed in the very back of our backyard. First Buck, her newest dog, then a little bit later she decided to bring Kaio over just to see if he’d track Buddy’s scent to the same location and to give us a more clear answer. Sure enough he did. At this point, we honestly didn’t think Buddy was alive - we didn’t hear anything, it has been days and the reality of finding an indoor/outdoor cat is slim.
Now it was time to bring Idabel in. Idabel pretty much ran to the backyard right to the shed and gave her signal. But hers was different ❤️ Bonnie said I think he’s alive based on Idabel’s reaction. Idabel
Just in the Nick of Time!!
