A girl’s terrifying ordeal after her feline good friend vanished has the web abuzz concerning the “Japanese missing cat method.” According to a U.Ok. comic, she tried all the standard strategies to get her cat to return house after he ran away, and when she had no luck for days, she turned determined.

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She’s not the primary individual to report that this technique labored.

What is the Japanese lacking cat technique?

According to web lore, Japanese tradition promotes a singular approach for locating runaway felines. All you need to do is locate one other neighborhood cat and inform them about your plight. Don’t neglect the treats.

TikTook comic Mel Moon (@mel.moon.comic) tried this after her British Shorthair/Russian Blue combine went lacking final month.

“Someone left me a comment saying, ‘have you tried the Japanese missing cat method?’” she stated. “You’ve basically got to go out onto the street, find a stray or street cat, crouch down to its level, and whisper to it that you’ve lost your cat, describe your cat, in detail, give the cat your cat’s name, and then tell this cat how much yours means to you.”

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“And then give it a reward. Kind of like a retainer fee, right?”

To those that don’t consider that animals can perceive human language, this feels like fantasy. Moon herself felt greater than a little bit off her rocker when she tried it.

“As if people didn’t think I’m crazy enough, I’m out in my back garden talking to my patio cats.”

She could have felt loopy, however 10 minutes later, she felt lots higher when Wade got here operating house.

Moon’s video gained 3.3 million views after it popped onto her account on the finish of August, and now the platform is filling up with Japanese lacking cat technique success tales.

“They came back TOGETHER”

This concept could sound acquainted to customers of what on the time was referred to as Twitter. In 2019, @charlie0816 reported in Japanese that he tried this technique after his cat went lacking to comparable outcomes.

“My cat escaped two days ago and didn’t come back, but someone on Twitter said, ‘If you tell the neighborhood cats to tell your cat to come home, it works,’” he wrote. “So last night, I tried telling the stray cat living at the nearby convenience store, and this morning, my cat was back in front of the house.”

In the feedback, story after story describes this method working for apprehensive cat homeowners.

“There was a time when my cat ran away, and I tried asking a nearby stray cat about it, and afterward, it was meowing loudly, so I went to check, and it was with my escaped cat!” claimed @kappukeki_sea.

Back on Moon’s video, fellow TikTokers additionally reported success.

“I used to have a strictly indoor cat that snuck out and was lacking for days,” stated @brightness_333. “I searched and searched with no luck. I also fed some stray cats in the neighborhood during this time. I asked a young orange, active tabby to ‘go find him and guide him home.’ He showed up the very next morning with my cat following behind him!”

TikToker @itsliamayuga described the same state of affairs and wrote that “we asked the neighbors’ cat to look for my cat and after a few hours they came back TOGETHER.”

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