I know the title sounds ridiculous, but please bear with me--this is a very serious and sad question.
I had an Airtag attached to collar around my male (neutered) cat who went missing about a month and a half ago. About 3 weeks after he went missing, the Airtag was pinged at a building nearby where some other stray cats (including one female in heat) had been living--and while I've pinpointed exactly where in the building it is, it's stuck in the ceiling/under the roof in an area that is way too small for a cat to have gone through (the gap crack is maybe 2 inches and there are no holes into that space except cracks in the tiles on the roof).
The cat is still missing and it seems he is no longer attached to the Airtag.
One theory is that the airtag and/or collar got loose; this has happened to us before so isn't entirely possible. Another theory is that the cat was killed by a predator somewhere and taken off the dead body by a bird who used it to build a nest on the roof at some point (several pigeons live on the roof). We don't really have any way of figuring out which of those possibilities is likely.
A third and much more horrifying theory is that our cat was killed and eaten by a python snake. We live on a golf course in a tropical country where pythons do live in the wild, although none to my knowledge have been spotted around here. There are stories of pythons eating house pets but it's a pretty rare occurrence, and I'm hoping to determine whether this is likely or not.
So, this is the question: if the cat was swallowed whole by the python, the Airtag would have been eaten with the cat and excreted after going through the snake's digestive track for two weeks. Then, the theory goes, the snake wandered to the roof of this building via climbing a tree next to it and excreted the Airtag on the roof, after which it fell through the cracks of the roof during a rainstorm.
If this had happened, would the Airtag still be functional enough to give off a signal?
Again, my apologies if this question and situation sounds absolutely bizarre--but this is really quite serious for us as we absolutely loved that cat to death and are devastated at what happened. We're just trying to figure out what happened, exactly.
I had an Airtag attached to collar around my male (neutered) cat who went missing about a month and a half ago. About 3 weeks after he went missing, the Airtag was pinged at a building nearby where some other stray cats (including one female in heat) had been living--and while I've pinpointed exactly where in the building it is, it's stuck in the ceiling/under the roof in an area that is way too small for a cat to have gone through (the gap crack is maybe 2 inches and there are no holes into that space except cracks in the tiles on the roof).
The cat is still missing and it seems he is no longer attached to the Airtag.
One theory is that the airtag and/or collar got loose; this has happened to us before so isn't entirely possible. Another theory is that the cat was killed by a predator somewhere and taken off the dead body by a bird who used it to build a nest on the roof at some point (several pigeons live on the roof). We don't really have any way of figuring out which of those possibilities is likely.
A third and much more horrifying theory is that our cat was killed and eaten by a python snake. We live on a golf course in a tropical country where pythons do live in the wild, although none to my knowledge have been spotted around here. There are stories of pythons eating house pets but it's a pretty rare occurrence, and I'm hoping to determine whether this is likely or not.
So, this is the question: if the cat was swallowed whole by the python, the Airtag would have been eaten with the cat and excreted after going through the snake's digestive track for two weeks. Then, the theory goes, the snake wandered to the roof of this building via climbing a tree next to it and excreted the Airtag on the roof, after which it fell through the cracks of the roof during a rainstorm.
If this had happened, would the Airtag still be functional enough to give off a signal?
Again, my apologies if this question and situation sounds absolutely bizarre--but this is really quite serious for us as we absolutely loved that cat to death and are devastated at what happened. We're just trying to figure out what happened, exactly.
