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Go and get a hair cut. Ask the beautician for your hair trimmings, sprinkle your hair near your home, so your cat can catch the scent.
Call the rescue shelters, vet clinics, feed stores, pet stores in your area. Let them know a full description of your cat, but don't count on over-worked volunteers at the rescue shelters or pound to go and check the cages. Visit the places as often as you can and check them yourself.
The internet is a powerful tool, use it! Email cat related and animal groups. Get the word out. Check the links page of this website for other websites where you can go to get help. Make up a website for your cat and email the link to anyone you can think of. You never know what can happen. If the cat is a purebreed, contact the breed specific rescue groups, and other cat associations and clubs.
The best time to search for your cat is in the wee hours of the morning. 2:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. that is when the world is quiet (for the most part) and she will feel safe enough to come out.
When you look, call, jiggle food bags, open up cans of cat food, make any familiar sounds your cat may recognize.
As sad as this sounds, find out who in your area picks up animals hit on the road, and contact them. If they haven't picked up your cat, then just ask them to keep an eye out. These crews work early in the morning and at dusk mostly and that is the time that your cat would be wandering around.
Have you recently moved? Go back to the old homestead and let your previous neighbors know your cat may show up.
Don't dismiss pet detectives, or animal communicators that can help you. Visit our links page and find a list of pet detectives that will help you.
At every opportunity, work outside. Sit outside and read out loud, or putter in the garden. Keep up a stream of nonsense talk softly. If she is hiding near you, she will come out eventually.
Don't give up hope. There are countless stories of cats coming home after months, even years of being gone. Some curious cats will jump into trucks making delivery. One of my kittens one time, got into my farrier's trailer. She went on quite a ride with him, but was soon discovered. Thankfully, I am known as the crazy cat lady so he had a feeling she was mine, one phone call later, I went to fetch her home.
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