This is kind of a long story but I want to make sure I cover everything.
My cat Blaze got out of an open window about 4 months ago. For about 1 of those months I spent every day checking facebook, next door, shelters, everything I could think of because I hadn't seen him. I left food out every single day and used every technique in the book to draw him back. I walked around my neighborhood daily and asked every single person there if they had seen him.
Around Late June/July he showed up on my ring camera overnight. I kept leaving out food in hopes that I would be able to just let him back in, but when I'd see him and open the door he would run away. This persisted for the next 2 months. I would try to talk to him or get near him when I'd see him and he'd immediately run away. I started setting humane traps on my patio where he was showing up in hopes that I could catch him, but he would never go inside of it.
I even started leaving my window open in the evenings and managed to get him to come inside, but after eating he would just leave again.
Finally after 4 months, I was able to trap him. I isolated him in his own room and he absolutely FREAKED out when I let him out of the trap. Like he actually started bouncing off of the walls. After about 10 minutes he calmed down and wedged himself in between some storage bins.
He looks like he has a bad eye infection because he can't seem to open his eyes all the way and they look very red and bloodshot. Someone else suggested that maybe he had the eye infection the whole time he was lost and that's why he kept running away, because he couldn't see me very well?
I don't know how I'm going to get him into a carrier and to the vet because he needs to go asap. The only reason I didn't immediately take him while he was in the trap was because it's 3am and the vet doesn't open until 8:30 and I don't want to leave him in there for 5 hours. I'm so worried about him because his eyes look so bad. He doesn't seem skinny at all so obviously he's been eating; but I'm worried about his overall behaviour since I am definitely not a cat expert. He seems terrified of me and my other cats, one of whom he was bonded with.
Please share any advice or similar experiences because I'm scared I'll never be able to have my old blaze back. He was so loving and sweet. Can a cat's behaviour change that much in 4 months? Can he become semi-feral?
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/pd6ony/my_cat_ran_away_3_months_ago_and_i_finally_caught/
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