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Emergency help with a cat

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  • 04-09-2021 5:09pm
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    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 11,992 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hello all, we've a cat in the house that must have got in via front door when we weren't looking. It's been here for a few days at least but we initially thought from hearing noises that it was a rodent. Until I went into the bathroom yesterday and saw a cats hind legs and tail disappearing under the bath (no side panel on it at the moment).

    So now we've been trying to lure it out since yesterday with no luck. It's had a few portions of tuna and some water but will not come out when we're in the house and /or it can hear us. OH has spent several hours today trying to find it but it is going from bathroom to the attic and back again, out of our reach.

    DSPCA are closed til Monday is there anyone else we can contact for help or advice??

    Thanks.

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    miamee
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    We're in the Dublin area if that makes any difference.



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    magicbastarder
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    how is it getting into the attic? what i suspect you've already tried is (assuming the layout of your house allows it) once you know it's in the bathroom, unless it can get directly from there to the attic; open the front door and close all other doors in the house, and try to chase it out from under the bath, leaving a clear route to the open bathroom door. hopefully it'll make a run for it and once out of the bathroom, it'll run till it finds the open front door?



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    miamee
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    That's the problem, it seems to be getting to the attic through the space where the waste pipe is. This is mostly guesswork based on the sounds of it moving around, we haven't actually seen him in the attic.

    We would have chased him out or caught him if we could corner him in the bathroom alright...but he seems to have an escape route.



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    rainemac
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    Block the hole under the bath, use expanding foam or something similar if the space is awkward to reach, trap it in the attic and ask around locally for a trap, someone is bound to have the lend of one. Use food to lure it into it.



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    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 11,992 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Thanks for all the advice guys, we eventually caught him and released him outside yesterday evening. I'm sure he was delighted to be out as much as we were delighted to have him out 😄



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