6 Reasons Why Cats Don't Come Home

Cats are animals who like to play outdoors, some of which even wander away from home. Although cats love being outdoors, they will eventually return home. They will return when they feel thirsty or hungry.

They will also return when they are homesick. But sometimes cats can also not come home. This of course will make us the owners panic. How not to panic, a cat that doesn't come home can take more than a day or even days or a week.

When this happens there are 2 things that will be on our minds, the first is how to find the cat and the second is why the cat doesn't come home? Now in this article, Angora will discuss the second thing, namely why the cat doesn't come home.

Whatever causes our pet cat not to return home, Good Readers can find out by reading this article.

6 Causes Of Cats Not Coming Home

According to Angora's own experience, there are many things that can be the main reason why a cat doesn't come home. Some of the causes can come from outside or can also come from the cat itself. Some of the main causes of cats not coming home are as follows :

1. Cat Is In Heat

The first reason why cats don't come home is because the cat is in heat. Cats who are in heat generally prefer to be outside. This applies to both male and female cats. But for lustful cats who don't come home, it's rarely done by female cats.

Cats that don't come home for days are more often male cats. This is because the male cat may like the neighbor's female cat who is far from home so he continues to follow her and eventually forgets the way home. A male cat in heat will usually come home after a day or a few week. 

Many of the cats who are in heat only return home after a week.

2. Cats Stolen

The second reason is that the cat was stolen by someone. If the cat doesn't come home for days, it's very likely that your cat has been stolen by someone else. This often occurs in purebred and mixdome cat breeds. The person who stole it usually took the cat to resell.

The price of purebred cats even though the cat is a mixdome type, these cats can be sold at prices ranging from 70 dollars to above 100 dollar. There are also those who steal because they want to keep a purebred cat but can't afford it because of the high price.

If you don't want your cat to be lost because it was picked up by someone, then you can give the cat a necklace as a sign that the cat already has an owner. Meanwhile, so that the cat is not stolen by others, you can keep the cat in a cage or in a special room.

3. Cats May Get Lost

The cat doesn't come home, it can also be caused by a lost cat. This often happens to cats who are allowed to enter the house for the first time. Not only that, cats who like to travel far from home and cats who are in lust can experience this.

When they go too far from home to just walk around or chase other females, they lose sight of the way home as a result they get lost. When cats get lost, they can not come home for days. In fact, it is not uncommon for cats that get lost to never return home and end up becoming homeless cats.

4. The Cat Is Dead

The next cause is the cat has died. Cats may unknowingly have :

• Died due to accidental run over by a motor vehicle

• Died because he was hit by a motorbike and the like

• Died because of poison

• Died from falling from a height and so on.

If you don't find your cat who left and never comes back, then try to ask your neighbors or people around where you live. It could be that some of them found your cat and buried it. Because Angora had experienced something similar in the past. Angora's cat has been missing for weeks.

It turned out that after desperately looking for him, finally there was news from a neighbor who said that Angora's pet cat had died. The dead cat has been buried and the cat has been buried for about a week since his death.

5. The Cat Is Picked Up By A Small Child Who Is Playing

As we all know that children have a high curiosity and also really like animals. It could be that your cat who has not returned home all this time is because the cat was brought to play by small children who happened to pass in front of your house.

Then after the child is tired of playing with the cat then the cat is not returned, it is just placed on the side of the road. This can lead a cat that doesn't know where it is going to get lost. As a result, the stray cat did not know the way home, so he did not return home.

6. Cats Thrown Your Neighbors

Not all neighbors around our house are good people. There will be neighbors who hate us because we keep a cat and often throw the cat away to a faraway place. Even the worst thing is that they poisoned our beloved fur pals to death.

So if you have neighbors like this then you should try to keep the cat in the house or in the cage. Because if you don't, you might lose the cat because it was poisoned or thrown away by your neighbors.

Cats Never Come Home, This Is What We Must Do !

When we feel that our cat is not coming home, what we should do is look for a cat in the neighborhood around the house. You can search while calling the cat, asking the neighbors if anyone has seen our cat.

Can Cats Be Trained Not To Leave the House ?

It's a bit difficult to train a cat not to leave the house but if you still want to try it then you can try the method here. If this method fails, so that the cat does not leave the house, it is better to keep the cat in a special cage or room.

That's the discussion about some of the reasons why cats don't come home. Hopefully this article can help you find out what are the reasons why your pet cat doesn't come home.