It seems likely that Kaja is somewhere in the unfinished part of our basement (with the clothes washers and dryers, boilers, etc.): Yesterday ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude put food and water there, as well as outside in the yard. The camera didn't function last night (I think a step was missed in turning it on), but the food in both places had been eaten this morning. We don't know what ate the food outside--it could have been Kaja, another cat, a raccoon or possum or skunk, almost anything that's active at night or in the early morning. But we don't think anything larger than a mouse could have gotten into the basement, and I don't think we have mice.
So, it seems likely that she's in the basement, and that she isn't crammed into a tiny crack, but has eaten and drunk recently.
The cat rescue person called this afternoon, and brought over a second camera and a second trap. We now have one camera pointed at each food bowl, and a trap a bit further away. (We're not setting the traps yet, this is so she gets used to seeing them.)
Also, optimistically, Cattitude put a large cardboard box near the food in the basement, with a pillowcase that smells a bit like him: Kaja's favorite toys are cardboard boxes and shoelaces, and it seems vaguely possible that she'll decide that box plus familiar smell equals safe.
cattitude put food and water there, as well as outside in the yard. The camera didn't function last night (I think a step was missed in turning it on), but the food in both places had been eaten this morning. We don't know what ate the food outside--it could have been Kaja, another cat, a raccoon or possum or skunk, almost anything that's active at night or in the early morning. But we don't think anything larger than a mouse could have gotten into the basement, and I don't think we have mice. So, it seems likely that she's in the basement, and that she isn't crammed into a tiny crack, but has eaten and drunk recently.
The cat rescue person called this afternoon, and brought over a second camera and a second trap. We now have one camera pointed at each food bowl, and a trap a bit further away. (We're not setting the traps yet, this is so she gets used to seeing them.)
Also, optimistically, Cattitude put a large cardboard box near the food in the basement, with a pillowcase that smells a bit like him: Kaja's favorite toys are cardboard boxes and shoelaces, and it seems vaguely possible that she'll decide that box plus familiar smell equals safe.
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