Several years ago, when I first began to consider the concept of lost cat behaviors, I decided to perform a little experiment. I had seen enough cases where lost cats exhibited very different behaviors. Some cats travel far, and others hide very close to home. Some cats meow and other cats are completely silent.

I began to wonder what factors influence how a cat will behave when it becomes lost. I was smart enough to realize that I have no training or talents in scientific research, and that anything that I called “research” was simply an exploration for information that might eventually be used to conduct an actual scientific study. So, what better way to understand how displaced cats behave then to actually displace some cats and watch how they behave.

So here’s what I decided to do – I had three housecats at the time – Yogi, Myron, and Tiffany. These three cats all had very different temperaments. This begged the question: Would they all behave differ… Register/Login to read more