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This is generally true... but when we moved with a bunch of cats from an apartment into another apartment on the ground floor less than 500m away, just as I was showing one of the cats around, he jumped off of my arms, went ballistic across the terrace, jumped the wall, another wall, across a street, and wet up a cliff before I could do anything.
He stayed in a 1Km radius, so after a week and something, some kids recognized him, and I got to climb onto a precarious bunch of overgrowth on top of a cliff, to finally get him back
Moral of the story: he ran away all scared, but didn't know how to get back in, so just stayed around... it's important to make sure the cat knows how to get into the home, not just find the way home but run away again when a dog or whatever scares them.
I'm so glad you got him back!!
Thanks. It happened some 20-odd years ago, so he's been gone for a while now... even the cliff where I found him is gone... and now I got something in my eye, but no regrets. Well, maybe one: should've taken more photos.
Yes for sure, the first few days in a new place are a shaky time - they're likely to wander off trying to get back to their old home. Years ago we had a cat that went all the way across town to our old place (about 2km?), twice. But generally once they're well settled in they won't go far and it shouldn't be an ongoing problem.
I've heard that cats tend to consider up to a 4Km radius as "their territory". It's kind of crazy/scary when that involves a city.
Check this out https://www.boredpanda.com/gps-tracker-cat-movement-map-lithgow-central-tablelands-local-land-services/