UPDATE: He's home. That little shittin' cat got out again

Amazing how they can hear a can opening from anywhere in the house. The look on there faces when they realize it’s not cat food is hysterical.

Put his kitty box outside and go out in the early morning to call for him. A while back my indoor kitty got out and was missing for eleven days. Thankfully, it was during the summer. I found her hiding under a shrub in my side yard very late on the eleventh night. She was too scared to come out to me and could only meow until I extricated her. She lost two pounds which is a lot for a kitty in a short period of time. How she escaped the racoons, foxes, and coyotes I still don't understand. She still makes a run for it from time to time, but then stops in her tracks as she seems to remember, then turns around and runs back in.

Good luck. Keep us posted.

Eating spot, I pick her up and carry her back. The other just strolls around, gets returned. I don't know why they get such a charge about escaping their climate controlled house where they're well fed and safe. Maybe they like seeing me rescue them... Constantly!

...very soon.

I put the sweeties in a bedroom and shut the door. Works like a charm.

I live on the corner of the 2 busiest streets in town, so kitty has never been outdoors in her life and she's 5 years old. Gives me nightmares to think what might happen to her if she ever got out.

... I heard it hacking up a hairball. "I prefer to do that on the carpet and behind the couch, thank you."

...basement crawl space.

They think it's time for food.

Unless the leash and harness is on.

They don't rush the door.

Othello has been taught when the door opens go to my bedroom bathroom and he goes right back there until I tell him it's ok,come on out.

My cat Rustle would come to the threshold of the door but never step beyond the threshold. If I told him go to my room he'd go

And my three other cats I had at the time would go to my bedroom with him until I told them it was ok to come out.

Never had problems with any of my cats bolting out the door.

It sounds as if he knows his way home and will eventfully make his way back. But there's always the chance he could get hurt, hit by a car or maybe someone else takes him in.

My heart was broken when I had my first cat. He stayed in the house, but in the morning he'd want to go out. Rarely out for longer than 1/2 an hour. Would always come back and sit by the back porch screen door. Well one morning he didn't come back before I was ready to leave for work. So I propped open the screen so he could get back on the porch and left a bowl of food and water. I fully expected to come home from work and find him curled up on one of the porch chair. Well he wasn't. For weeks I left that porch door open and at night turned on the porch light. But he never returned. Several months later I was transferred. Had to sell the house and relocate. I felt I was abandoning him. I swear, as I drove away from my house for the last time I saw Spooky sitting on the hillside behind my house. I turned my car around and drove back into the driveway, got out and ran behind the house. He was no where to be seen. Was it him? A ghost? Or my imagination? I'll never know. But I loved that cat. He'd curl up in my lap and sleep on my pillow at the top of my head. I've never forgot him.

So point of story, I've never let another cat out of the house.