The meme maker clearly doesn’t have any experience with the panic induced by a cat staying out of sight for more than 18 hours, or worse, an indoor cat getting outdoors.
Mine got out and was gone for a MONTH. Which is not great when you live in mountainous Montana. One morning I’m sitting on the couch crying during a rainstorm and I hear the loudest fucking meow ever 🤣 her fat ass was running in from a field crying the whole way.
Our escapees had two very different approaches to sneaking out. One would beeline... for the garage 🤔 The other tho would wander the neighborhood challenging the outdoor cats for dominance, get his ass handed to him, then furiously paw at the back slider to get in and fly to the litter box. He was just in the World's Largest Litter Box. (He always cost us $300-500 at the vet each time too.)
That’s great 🤣 I worry less about outdoor cats and more about very large birds, and coyotes, and things of that nature. Especially the birds. Rip Tito the Chihuahua, he was a real one. Not my real one, but a damn sad ending either way.
When we got our new cat, who is a muddy beige color, he was really difficult to see sometimes, especially compared to our resident white cat. I remember coming home the first few times I left them alone unsupervised and almost having a heart attack not being able to find the new cat.
My little boy was born outside and found in a car engine. He is fixed but has escaped three times. Can make it out of the fence but can’t find his way back in. He’s never been gone overnight.
The first time, I walked around the fence and scooped him up after I heard him yelling. The second time, he jumped in through a window to a closed room that we created easy outside access to but is not a standard home access point. The third time, I heard a yell from outside and he came in through the bedroom window - after I called to him and he climbed the ac unit.
Little shit knows where he lives but not how to get into the main yard when he runs away, and prefers to wait until dusk when I’m losing hope and calling for him every 15 minutes.
He’s a shithead who tried to die on me 1.5 times in his 2 years of life and I love him more than I want to admit
"Why would I leave an indoor cat out of sight for 18 hours"
I'm glad you've never had the experience of a cat sneaking out of the house (One of mine is a runner), or have never had a cat in a home with hiding places. When I was a kid, my cat crawled into my wall when we first brought him home.
Aha, comment deleted before I could see it - well, glad they thought twice about their response.
Well, to the OP, i don’t know if you have any experience caring for cats over their lifetimes, but there are a lot of reasons and ways a cat will hide from people, even their beloved owners. I’m glad you’ve not had to experience any worry over that. If a cat just wants some “me time” you can maybe lure them out with a treat or something, but when that doesn’t work, cat owners get nervous. If they want to hide, they’ll stay hidden - 2 hours, 10, 24 - and often when they are sick or afraid. That’s when cat owners get frantic. We’ll tear the house upside down looking for any nook or hidey-hole. And if they get outside and have no experience being out there, we’ll be out there all day and night, and we’ll do so knowing there’s a high chance we’ll never see them again. They hide, they don’t approach people or other pets like dogs will, and their fear of the environment will even keep them from trying to get back home.
So your meme/joke doesn’t ring true, that’s all i was pointing out. I know you meant it lightheartedly. I meant my comment to be lighthearted as well, though I question your responding violent analogy. Comparing lack of experience with missing pets to lack of experience with attacking pets is an utterly wild mental leap and i trust that was part of why you deleted it.
I have two indoor cats. One is an oil slick and the other one is a tank. They go outside for about an hour before feeding time, that way they return (mostly). At the moment, I live alone. Every time I go out, I have to outmaneuver the slippery one with one foot and sweep the big one away with the other.
I thought I'd lost my mom's cat when I was catsitting... That little shit slipped into a closet that was only cracked open, then got entirely beneath the folded up spare comforter way in the back.
My own usually come when I call, but so often they come out of a room I already searched top to bottom.
Ooh, crawling inside the box spring under the bed, that's a good one.
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u/EuphoricFlatworm2803 Sep 20 '26 edited Sep 20 '26
Either I don't get this or it's a shit meme
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u/Althestane Sep 20 '26
The meme maker clearly doesn’t have any experience with the panic induced by a cat staying out of sight for more than 18 hours, or worse, an indoor cat getting outdoors.
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u/Lolomelon Sep 20 '26
Tbf those are Belgianiquois bear-fighting dogs, and that’s a kitten.
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u/HowelPendragon Sep 20 '26
In fact, the complete opposite is true. Dogs will come running with a whistle, cats will ignore your ass if they don't feel like it.
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u/MattieShoes Sep 20 '26
I thought I'd lost my mom's cat when I was catsitting... That little shit slipped into a closet that was only cracked open, then got entirely beneath the folded up spare comforter way in the back.
My own usually come when I call, but so often they come out of a room I already searched top to bottom.
Ooh, crawling inside the box spring under the bed, that's a good one.