i ventured into the jungle today (sorta)

[ZEGH8578]

near my house is a depression in the landscape, a creek, and around it is thick thick brush, clusters of trees, and thousands of stinging nettles

i woke up hearing the repeated call of a cat, a classic, drawn-out meow.
in my experience, this is a cats call for attention
at first i thought it was my cat. for her to simply not run home, if something is troubling her, means there is some sort of trouble. im not gonna just sit and watch tv, listening to my cat cry out for help

so i go outside, to listen. i notice my own cat is also curious to the meowing
so, after scouting the edge of the bush-pit for some sort of entrance (its very steep) i begin climbing down, and wading through the nettles i manage to step into the creek, and get my foot soaked. in there, across the creek, is one friendly neighbor cat, which seems uninterested, and leaves. then there is another, smaller, possibly female cat, that seems concerned with my approach

suddenly i notice my kitty has followed me into the brush, and is eagerly exploring along my side
my kitty and the other kitty seem to have a short verbal quarrel, before the other one leaves

so, my only conclusion is that the 2nd, smaller cat i didnt recognize might have gotten itself lost, and is calling out for its owners or something. because she had been calling continously for at least half an hour, before i showed up, and my kitty decided to tell it to piss off out of her back yard :I
"go yell for help somewhere else!" i suspect she said :I

[Callaway]

It was good of you to go and see if she needed help.

[ZEGH8578]

It was good of you to go and see if she needed help.

oh yes
i was hesitant, cus its a "fine" neighborhood, and a bearded scruffy guy delving into where-nobody-goes is a bit... weird...
besides, my kitty was safe

but yeah, it was the same mindset, it would be lame of ANY cat ended up drowning in the creek, stuck on collar or something, and i even heard it, without at least checking it out :I

[Callaway]

It was good of you to go and see if she needed help.

oh yes
i was hesitant, cus its a "fine" neighborhood, and a bearded scruffy guy delving into where-nobody-goes is a bit... weird...
besides, my kitty was safe

but yeah, it was the same mindset, it would be lame of ANY cat ended up drowning in the creek, stuck on collar or something, and i even heard it, without at least checking it out :I

I did sort of the same thing when I heard foxes screaming in the middle of the night from my bedroom.  I thought it might be a child or a woman screaming and I couldn't just lie there without checking to see if somebody needed help.  I got up and went outside and saw that it was foxes and they were OK.

[Tommy Johnson]

Do you live in an area that has jungles or did you mean forest?

Perhaps the cat calls you heard were mating calls since you mentioned seeing another cat.

[ZEGH8578]

Do you live in an area that has jungles or did you mean forest?

Perhaps the cat calls you heard were mating calls since you mentioned seeing another cat.

no, just _very dense_ normal temperate north european brush.

and no, i know mating calls. this was a classic call-for-attention, which is why im suspecting the cat making the calls was lost. it was also a young cat

[Tommy Johnson]

Maybe it was a stray that was hungry or just a stray. Otherwise, beats me. I would say a fox or maybe a deer, but they don't sound anything like a cat. Fox screams are distinct, as well as deer screams, to some they may sound like a cat, to others it's obvious they're not cats.. But if you saw the animal, it may have been a stray.

[ZEGH8578]

Maybe it was a stray that was hungry or just a stray. Otherwise, beats me. I would say a fox or maybe a deer, but they don't sound anything like a cat. Fox screams are distinct, as well as deer screams, to some they may sound like a cat, to others it's obvious they're not cats.. But if you saw the animal, it may have been a stray.

its not a deep forest, a 20 metre wide, 100 metres long strip of very dense brush. houses some foxes and badgers, but nothing more.
nah, i found the culprit, im pretty sure.
im well used to the sounds cats make, and this was the same sound a cat will use when desperately in need of attention, like "open the door" or "let me out"
its a distinct, drawn out, very classic "meooow" sound

[Tommy Johnson]

I'm not disputing you or anything. Plus you found the lost/stray kitty.

Here's a fox scream, you've may have heard it before.

[ZEGH8578]

I'm not disputing you or anything. Plus you found the lost/stray kitty.

Here's a fox scream, you've may have heard it before.

ah, ive never heard such a sound

when i first moved here, kitty called for me, same distressed attention call as i mentioned before. i went outside to check, and theres a _large_ old (i suspect, due to the sheer size) fox on the lawn. i expect it to flee just by approaching it, but it doesnt :S :S
so i "make myself big" "ARR!!" and scare it away...

some weeks later there was an epic battle in the same brush, between what i suspect was a fox and a badger, they rush out of the brush, and behind a fence, and it happens so fast, i still couldnt see exactly what they were, i hear them rawr and scream further and further away, following a road..

[Tommy Johnson]

I've found that a cat scream sounds completely different to a fox. To me they may sound completely different to a fox than to you, we all perceive things differently. I

If the fox didn't flee, there may be a fox den somewhere in the area around where you saw it. That could possibly be the reason it didn't back down because they could view you or your pet as a threat. Some other reasons could be that someone is feeding it and it's became tame towards humans. . Another reason I can think of, is the fox could have rabies. It's somewhat easy to tell or hard to tell. It depends how far a long they are. I don't know how you perceive things. It may or most likely be different on how perceived the situation.

I suspect you may have a fox den somewhere in the vicinity of your home. I don't have badgers where I live, but foxes tend to eat small animals like rabbits or small /birds. In my area the foxes eat rabbits and groundhogs.

If you're concerned about your cat or other cats, You could try to seek out where the den is and call someone that will trap them and let them go elsewhere.

That was my rant of boringess. Those are what I could think of at this moment.

[ZEGH8578]

heh, no worries. im pretty sure that was the same fox that got badger-chased into the next county

[Callaway]

I'm not disputing you or anything. Plus you found the lost/stray kitty.

Here's a fox scream, you've may have heard it before.

That's exactly what the screams I heard sounded like and I found three foxes in the middle of the road nearby when I went outside to investigate.