Yes, you may most certainly add this to your article. There is TON'S of info on our (MARN's) website (missinganimalreponse.com) about the topic of displaced cat recovery and you can link to it, and/or copy/paste it as long as you give credit (and a link to the MARN website).
I strongly suggest that you consult with someone trained by our online 8-week MAR Field Course who can help you strategize on how to detect and recover your cat. They have the same knowledge I have and I just don't have the time to do consultations at this time. Also. ignore those who tell you a "coyote ate your cat" because THIS FALSE BELIEF kills more cats than coyotes actually do! Why would a cat owner search shelters and put up posters and cameras for their lost cat if they believed it has been eaten by a coyote? So they lose hope, stop searching, and their cat becomes part of the homeless cat crisis and may some day end up in a shelter for 3 days, long after the owner gave up searching (and the cat is euthanized after a 3-day hold period! DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE Panama!
BTW, I suggest that if you want to build a team to do this work in your community that you consider taking our course and joining our network. You'll learn everything you need to know about lost cat (and dog) recovery. Our next group class will likely start in early January on Mondays nights for 8 weeks (cost is $350). I haven't posted it on our registration page (on the MARN site under TRAINING) but I can let you know when we're open for registrations. In fact, I'd like TO GIFT YOU my friend with a FREE registration to that class in January! Because if you can also help to post about lost cat recovery in YOUR Substack, I know you'll use your experience to BLESS other cat owners who need help! Let me know if you want me to save you a space for that January class.
Interesting (A.I.) article, but there is actually much more of an explanation as to how and why cats enter this "survival mode" which is actually called "displacement." I feel I can speak to this because this is my area of expertise. Displacement happens when a cat is transported into unfamiliar territory. This happens when indoor-only cats escape outdoors or accidently escape outside like escaping from the veterinarians office, while on a camping trip, or after involved in a roll over car accident. It can also happen to an outdoor-access cat when it is beat up and chased from its territory, most often by another cat. Cats don't "runaway" from home (like dogs do) because they are territorial. But when they become sick, injured, or displaced they will ALWAYS hide in silence, often very close to their escape point. I wrote a story in my Substack about one such case of a displaced cat named Mugsy who was involved in a horrific RV crash and was lost in the woods (if you look on my Substack, its the post with the photo of broken windshield). We used game cameras on that Mugsy case, as we do on most displaced cat (and panicked lost dog) cases.
We (and those I train in lost pet recovery work through www.missinganimalresponse.com) started using humane traps to recover displaced cats back in the late 1990's, with MUCH RESISTANCE from shelters I might add! I write about this in my (free!) memoir PET TRACKER on my ArmedRobbers2Airedales Substack. We started incorporating the use of game cameras (with humane traps) in the summer of 1996 after one of my students, Donna Holsten, first used a game camera on one of her lost dog trapping cases. I then (with her permission) began teaching this method to students, at animal welfare conferences, and in my blog posts. Thankfully, that use of game cameras has spread to all spectrums of animal welfare these days., without most animal welfare volunteers and trappers even knowing where the idea originated from (again not ME, but from Donna). I don't make this point to TOOT MY (or Donna's) HORN, but I noticed that this article was "written by A.I." and I thought readers deserve to learn more FACTS behind this issue than what was created by the AI article.
I've had the rare experience of seeing the change in the animal industry from the 1990's where NO ONE was doing anything to help families recover a lost dog or cat to today, in 2023, where many lost and found Facebook groups and organizations see and understand that LOST PETS NOT FOUND go somewhere! Lost dogs and cats FILL our shelters and rescue groups, disguised as "strays" and they are responsible for overcrowded shelters, feral cat colonies, and are a major contributing factor to the homeless pet crisis.
I felt SO ALONE back in the 1990's when I saw the need for the animal industry to FOCUS on lost pet recovery work. I was mocked as a "pet detective" and treated like a buffoon by many in the animal welfare field. So it brings great joy today, to see that my years of struggle actually helped "pioneer" things today like lost dog and lost cat behavior-based recovery techniques, high tech gear, search dogs trained to find lost pets, and even a scientific study of lost cat behavior that my organization spearheaded in 2017 (Google "Missing Cat Study Kat Albrecht" to read it). And I credit GOD for this, not myself). I might also add that putting out a dirty litterbox IS NOT NEEDED and is actually a "Questionable Cause Fallacy" that I don't have time to explain here, but you can read about in this blog post: It breaks my heart that no one listens to our advice that the primary way to recover a lost cat is a physical search of all properties in your immediate area instead of using passive scent luring. But it is easier and more comfortable to put a litterbox on your porch than to actively search under your neighbor's deck and house. Simply asking your neighbor to "look for" your cat IS NOT ENOUGH! Your neighbor WILL NOT get down on their belly to search under their deck to look for your cat, and yet our scientific study proves that THIS (in neighbor's yards) is where your cat is most likely to be hiding or trapped!
In closing,, what I'd love more than anything to convey is the beauty of what I've seen in God using my willingness to be used by Him to bless pet lovers with help and hope to recover their missing pets. Above all else, I want to see GOD given ALL of the glory that so many lost cats and dogs have been brought back home over the last 20+ years than they were back in the 1990's. I simply told God that I wanted to be used by Him, and look what He has done!
Yes, you may most certainly add this to your article. There is TON'S of info on our (MARN's) website (missinganimalreponse.com) about the topic of displaced cat recovery and you can link to it, and/or copy/paste it as long as you give credit (and a link to the MARN website).
I strongly suggest that you consult with someone trained by our online 8-week MAR Field Course who can help you strategize on how to detect and recover your cat. They have the same knowledge I have and I just don't have the time to do consultations at this time. Also. ignore those who tell you a "coyote ate your cat" because THIS FALSE BELIEF kills more cats than coyotes actually do! Why would a cat owner search shelters and put up posters and cameras for their lost cat if they believed it has been eaten by a coyote? So they lose hope, stop searching, and their cat becomes part of the homeless cat crisis and may some day end up in a shelter for 3 days, long after the owner gave up searching (and the cat is euthanized after a 3-day hold period! DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE Panama!
BTW, I suggest that if you want to build a team to do this work in your community that you consider taking our course and joining our network. You'll learn everything you need to know about lost cat (and dog) recovery. Our next group class will likely start in early January on Mondays nights for 8 weeks (cost is $350). I haven't posted it on our registration page (on the MARN site under TRAINING) but I can let you know when we're open for registrations. In fact, I'd like TO GIFT YOU my friend with a FREE registration to that class in January! Because if you can also help to post about lost cat recovery in YOUR Substack, I know you'll use your experience to BLESS other cat owners who need help! Let me know if you want me to save you a space for that January class.
Interesting (A.I.) article, but there is actually much more of an explanation as to how and why cats enter this "survival mode" which is actually called "displacement." I feel I can speak to this because this is my area of expertise. Displacement happens when a cat is transported into unfamiliar territory. This happens when indoor-only cats escape outdoors or accidently escape outside like escaping from the veterinarians office, while on a camping trip, or after involved in a roll over car accident. It can also happen to an outdoor-access cat when it is beat up and chased from its territory, most often by another cat. Cats don't "runaway" from home (like dogs do) because they are territorial. But when they become sick, injured, or displaced they will ALWAYS hide in silence, often very close to their escape point. I wrote a story in my Substack about one such case of a displaced cat named Mugsy who was involved in a horrific RV crash and was lost in the woods (if you look on my Substack, its the post with the photo of broken windshield). We used game cameras on that Mugsy case, as we do on most displaced cat (and panicked lost dog) cases.
We (and those I train in lost pet recovery work through www.missinganimalresponse.com) started using humane traps to recover displaced cats back in the late 1990's, with MUCH RESISTANCE from shelters I might add! I write about this in my (free!) memoir PET TRACKER on my ArmedRobbers2Airedales Substack. We started incorporating the use of game cameras (with humane traps) in the summer of 1996 after one of my students, Donna Holsten, first used a game camera on one of her lost dog trapping cases. I then (with her permission) began teaching this method to students, at animal welfare conferences, and in my blog posts. Thankfully, that use of game cameras has spread to all spectrums of animal welfare these days., without most animal welfare volunteers and trappers even knowing where the idea originated from (again not ME, but from Donna). I don't make this point to TOOT MY (or Donna's) HORN, but I noticed that this article was "written by A.I." and I thought readers deserve to learn more FACTS behind this issue than what was created by the AI article.
I've had the rare experience of seeing the change in the animal industry from the 1990's where NO ONE was doing anything to help families recover a lost dog or cat to today, in 2023, where many lost and found Facebook groups and organizations see and understand that LOST PETS NOT FOUND go somewhere! Lost dogs and cats FILL our shelters and rescue groups, disguised as "strays" and they are responsible for overcrowded shelters, feral cat colonies, and are a major contributing factor to the homeless pet crisis.
I felt SO ALONE back in the 1990's when I saw the need for the animal industry to FOCUS on lost pet recovery work. I was mocked as a "pet detective" and treated like a buffoon by many in the animal welfare field. So it brings great joy today, to see that my years of struggle actually helped "pioneer" things today like lost dog and lost cat behavior-based recovery techniques, high tech gear, search dogs trained to find lost pets, and even a scientific study of lost cat behavior that my organization spearheaded in 2017 (Google "Missing Cat Study Kat Albrecht" to read it). And I credit GOD for this, not myself). I might also add that putting out a dirty litterbox IS NOT NEEDED and is actually a "Questionable Cause Fallacy" that I don't have time to explain here, but you can read about in this blog post: It breaks my heart that no one listens to our advice that the primary way to recover a lost cat is a physical search of all properties in your immediate area instead of using passive scent luring. But it is easier and more comfortable to put a litterbox on your porch than to actively search under your neighbor's deck and house. Simply asking your neighbor to "look for" your cat IS NOT ENOUGH! Your neighbor WILL NOT get down on their belly to search under their deck to look for your cat, and yet our scientific study proves that THIS (in neighbor's yards) is where your cat is most likely to be hiding or trapped!
In closing,, what I'd love more than anything to convey is the beauty of what I've seen in God using my willingness to be used by Him to bless pet lovers with help and hope to recover their missing pets. Above all else, I want to see GOD given ALL of the glory that so many lost cats and dogs have been brought back home over the last 20+ years than they were back in the 1990's. I simply told God that I wanted to be used by Him, and look what He has done!