Can cats get lost?

Does the cat know the way home? How does the cat find its way home? Whenever we take the cat out for a walk, in order to prevent it from wandering around and disappearing, we will also lead it with a chain. Some well-trained cats don’t need to bother so much. As soon as the owner calls their name, they will come back obediently. But if your cat is naughty, using a chain is also a rather helpless method. However, sometimes you have to face some unexpected situations. For example, your cat suddenly became very excited today. When you opened the door, the cat walked towards it before you could even put the leash on it. He ran out of the door and disappeared after a while. At this time, owners are often anxious and at a loss. Will my cat come back?

Compared to cats, we know that dogs have a strong ability to know the way, which is also natural. You often see dogs peeing on telephone poles or under trees when going outside. Then they keep sniffing with their noses. This is a good way for them to find their way. So, do cats also have this ability?

Recently, a netizen in Hangzhou posted a post saying that his cat, which had been lost for two years, was back. Netizens were surprised and expressed their blessings about the cat’s ability to recognize the way, while he was abroad. There is a cat with even more amazing abilities. This is a pet cat in the UK. When its owner is not at home, it goes out on the streets alone, and then takes regular buses back and forth several times.

This amazing ability of cats is related to the animal’s physiological sense of time, that is, its internal biological clock. If a cat leaves home or the area where it lives, the cat's biological clock and the position of the sun will deviate from the original place, but the cat's biological clock will temporarily maintain the position of the sun at the original place at this moment. If the cat moves in a direction that corrects this deviation, it can find its original home. Facts have proven that cats can generally find their way home if the distance from home is within a radius of about 12 kilometers. If the distance exceeds this range, the cat is likely to get lost. Once a cat walks near a home, it can smell the familiar smell of home through its sensitive sense of smell, and thus find the exact location and floor of the home in the steel forest of the city. When a cat stays at home for a long time, it will have an indelible impression of the home's smell, environment, owner's voice, etc. When a cat gets lost, it will use its own judgment to find its way home.

For cats and other animals, the biological clock is an essential ability for them to survive in nature. The ancestors of cats and other animals used the position of the sun to judge when they should do something, when to go out to hunt to catch prey, when to go out to encounter natural enemies, etc. Although today's pet cats no longer need to hunt, their lives are also regular. They can remember what time their owners get up and get off work. This is all related to the biological clock.

Of course, not every cat has this ability, and we usually see a lot of cats getting lost, so we still need to slowly guide cats in finding their way, such as Let it get more familiar with your home and surroundingsSecondly, if the cat is not happy living in an environment, when it runs away from home, it is very likely that it will not come back. Therefore, the best way to prevent a cat from running away and not coming back is to take good care of the cat and provide the cat with a comfortable environment where it can eat, drink, play and sleep. The cat will naturally be reluctant to leave and will come back even if it gets lost one day. Moreover, cats should be neutered when they reach the appropriate age, so as to avoid running away from home due to heat.