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Doctor Foxx posted...

I'd suggest putting out food and making a cat shelter for kitty. It's too cold to try and trap. And it's really tricky because it's not your cat coming to something familiar, it's an abandoned cat out in the cold.

You can try to keep a door open a few inches to see if the cat will come inside. Keep food near it. Maybe not a house door in that cold but a garage would work well.

http://www.catster.com/cat-chic/build-a-cozy-low-cost-cat-shelter-for-outdoor-cats

When you can entice cat inside you can have it scanned at a vet clinic for a microchip. It's not going to do any good with an abandoned animal but it would determine the previous owner anyway. And the cat may have escaped when they moved (cats freak out during moving) and they couldn't get to it, you never know.

Thanks! Ended up going to bed last night but I did some of this on my own. We don't have any pets of our own so I'm going to pick up some cat food after work. The turkey we left out was frozen solid... still untouched :/

That shelter in the link is pretty neat. A lot better than my cardboard box + fleece blanket set up.

We don't have a garage but we do have a screened in porch. I'm going to leave the door open a bit with some food inside and some food just outside the door.
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