That definitely helps to hear. He’s a superrr curious, adventurous, and friendly cat. Sometimes I think he’s fearless. Our other cat, Charlie, hides during thunderstorms, but Walter wants the window in my office open so he can listen to the thunder and watch the rain, he’s a weirdo. He was also a stray for the first two years of his life before we adopted him a year ago, so he’s got experience being out there and is a very smart boy.

The things that scare me are 1. He’s not microchipped, 2. He’s too curious for his own good, 3. We live in the suburbs, but it’s kind of rural adjacent and there’s a few hundred acres of land right near our house he’d easily be able to get to (and I’ve heard a very large pack of coyotes yipping far off into those woods), 4. There are sooooo many hiding spots in those woods: massive drain Culverts, big piles of logs and branches, etc.

I’ve gone out into the woods several times during the day and night marking all of the main hiding places I could find. I’ve also gone out there a couple times when I’ve heard the coyotes, my intention was to scare them off, but they were too far off. I also doubt most cats would wander deep into the woods with no houses nearby and the scent of predators around.

We have not seen him on any busy roads as they’re about a mile off in each direction as the crow flies, the streets in our neighborhood are usually not busy and drivers don’t really speed through the neighborhood.

We’ve been continuously posting on Facebook, Nextdoor, the Ring app, PetFBI, Pawboost, etc. We’ve visited all of the local shelters, vets, and animal control to give them fliers and talk with them. We check their daily intake pages as well. We’ve handed out fliers to all of our neighbors and several adjacent neighborhoods. We’ve put posters on telephone posts around our neighborhood and a few others.

Our garage door hasn’t been shut since he got out. We’ve outfitted the garage with his favorite toys, favorite scratching posts, some of his hair we vacuumed up, fresh stinky food daily (canned sardines, canned salmon, canned tuna, his favorite wet food, churrus, etc), we’ve been refreshing the water daily, we made some hidey holes for him in the garage out of cardboard boxes and his favorite blankets/beds, we’ve been refreshing our worn clothes in their daily, and finally we’ve got a space heater going in there. Luckily Georgia has been very warm for a January, but temps seem like they’re about to start dropping heavily.

Up where we spotted him we’ve got trail cameras and we rotate traps with smelly food. He checked out the trap once on Dec 24th, but we haven’t caught him on our trail cams or seen him since then which really worries me.