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NoTail
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Missing black cat without a tail, lost pet, lost cat
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A LIST OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR
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Knocked on everybody's door
Flyers to everyone in the complex twice within four weeks
Foot search in the complex every night for three weeks, sporadically thereafter
Trapping with four traps every night for three weeks
Later trapping with two traps for many more weeks in the park
Trapping on the school grounds north and south
Spoke to everyone on the street in the complex
Checked all cats at Los Angeles County Animal Control Shelter Baldwin Park (ACSBP) twice a week
Checked all cats at Pomona Valley Humane Society (PVHS) once a week
Visited and called San Gabriel Valley Humane Society (SGVHS) once week
Donated money to all three shelters
Befriended staff and animal handlers at all three shelters
Repeatedly left flyers with all of them and asked them to notify their drivers
Mailed a letter and flyer to all 77 animal hospitals within 10 miles
Mailed a letter and flyer to each animal shelter in the entire Los Angeles Basin
Mailed a letter to 59 homes on Morada Street in Baldwin Park to find out if anyone knew something about the injured black cat without a tail caught on their street and euthanized by the ACSBP
Collected hair from my cats and distributed it in the vicinity
Collected nail clippings from my cats and did the same
Spread a trail of used cat litter from my cats to help NoTail find home
Left many days worn clothing out to spread our scent
Newspaper advertisements:
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Pasadena Star News
Whittier News
Impacto
Los Angeles Times
Penny Saver
San Gabriel Valley Examiner
Covina Neighborhood News
Online advertisements:
www.lostandfound.com
www.pets911.com
www.petfinder.com
and many others I don’t even remember
Translated in Spanish how to ask the Hispanic residents
Posted flyer in lobby of complex
Asked the manager time and time again if he or his maintenance crew saw NoTail
Checked all openings to the bathtub piping I don’t know how many times
Many neighbors were out looking also and some still are
Checked under every bush, garage, storage in complex and surrounding area
Bought tons of dry food and sardines
Ate a lot of sardines ourselves
Bought ant safe bowls
Donated money to www.bestfriends.org in NoTail's name
Posted an urgent plight on Best Friends Forum website
Contacted www.humantouchrescue.com, they have an ongoing posting for NoTail
Nightly kitty buffet in patio and other kitty highways with off and on night watch
Nightly video surveillance of who comes to eat
Daily review of the surveillance tapes in fast forward mode
Checked storm drain street intakes
Checked storm drain outlets in park
Checked storm drain channels for miles in all directions
Left flyers at each storm drain channel access gate for crew to see
Met with City of Covina engineer at Street Division to review storm drain channel maps
Delivered flyers to City Parks and Recreation Department and followed up with email
Emails and phonecalls to City Street Division
Handed flyer to the Los Angeles Times newspaper delivery man
Hired www.petfind-usa.com to mail 4,000 postcards to surrounding residents
Follow up calls to all vets and faxed new flyers to those who didn’t have them anymore
Contacted four animal communicators
www.connectinharmony.com
www.ispeakanimal.com
www.talktoanimals.com
Deborah Jones
Jane Brocolo
Contacted
www.catprofiler.com for a complete profile of NoTail as a skittish indoor only lost cat
www.carlwashington-petdetective.com for a free profile
As well as:
www.petrecovery.com
www.lostapet.org
www.katalbrecht.com
www.electrapetdetective.com
www.carlwashington-petdetective.com
Contacted Cats in the Bag Forum for help, they posted a message
Questioned residents that search the trash bins for recyclable items
Repeatedly questioned immediate neighbors
Researched maps and aerial photographs
Posted fliers, fliers, fliers everywhere on the streets with big reward
Posted fliers in local pet supply stores
Followed up on every sighting of a dark cat with no tail, stubby tail, 4 inch tail, and normal tail
Drove around nightly for three months on every single street in neighborhood
Posted fliers outside LA County Animal Control Shelter in Baldwin Park
Repeatedly visited and called Glendora Animal Control in the event he is trying to come to Azusa
Posted flier in City of Covina Police Station
Dozen phone calls to manufacturers, businesses, rental companies in search of a remote video probe or searchcam for rent (no luck here at all!)
Contacted KFWB news director Andy Ludlum for an announcement (he declined)
Tracked down the substitute Animal Control Driver to the LA County Animal Control Shelter in Downey to verify a possible match of a dead cat close by (was negative)
Chased a gray/black cat without a tail at Charter Oak/Aurora Behavioral Hospital in Covina only to be ridiculed and joked about by staff (although the supervisor did allow me to set my traps after begging in tears, I was so sure it was NoTail)
Still in process of conducting search into disappearance of black cat without a tail from LA County Animal Control Shelter in Baldwin Park on July 3, 2004
Spend nights in parking lot of Kahler Russel Park
Called Roto Rooter to search openings to bathtubs behind apartments with their remote camera
Asked shop keepers in Vons Shopping Center and left fliers
Manager of Vons allowed flier to be posted outside store for two weeks
Walked Kahler Russel Park so many times, can’t count
Trapped so many cats, can't count them, opossums, and one raccoon
Posted fliers around every unverified sighting farther away
Charter Oak School made two announcements upon request from my neighbor, who's son goes to school there
Enlisted homeless couple in park to keep watch after they reported three sightings
Bought dog house for patio to provide shelter and a place to hide, just in case he came back
Spread flower into the openings to see paw prints
Opened all accessible closed holes to bathtub piping in entire 281 apartment complex (more than once)
Bought two very powerful flashlights
Always carry items in car: flashlight, binoculars, camera, sticks, traps, wet food, dry food, water, sardines, bowls, blankets, maps, fliers, stapler, pins, tape, etc.
Cooked pots full of chicken and spread in selected locations
Made a U-turn for each black plastic bag, rag, and shadow in the street and gutter
Posted fliers at Citizens Business Bank and called to thank them (they never took them down)
Spread chicken liver in selected areas
Researched internet resources for hours and hours
Did I forget anything???
Yes!
Contacted LA County Animal Control Headquarters in Long Beach.
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