I'm all for the cat hunt.
Last summer a feral kitten decided to visit our humble abode. I noticed it hanging around our front bushes and thought it would leave and paid it no mind. A couple of hours later my wife was just about to start the mini van when she thought she heard a cat meowing. I quickly opened the hood and the feral kitten jumped out and ran into our garage. Now the fun was just beginning.
We have a 2 car garage but because we have no basement half the garage is cluttered with storage items, the kids toys etc. Well the kitten must have realized this garage was his haven because we could not get him to leave. If you approached him he would hiss violently and scratch. He was scaring the kids and crapping all over the place. The dam cat was so small he was hiding in spaces in and underneath the riding lawn mower and I could not catch him. This went on for 2 days.
On the third day, I found the cat sleeping in the spare wheel under my SUV. I quickly backed the car out of the garage, lowered the tire and the cat took off. "Finally" I thought, the cat would be gone. I moved the car back into garage. Apparently the cat had just jumped to a space underneath the SUV because as soon as I closed the garage door, I saw it crawl across the floor into the stuff to hide.
Now I was pissed and even a little embaressed. A grown man who couldn't catch a little "kitten". Something had to be done soon. We were leaving on vacation in 2 days and the cat surely would have died being locked in hot garage with no food or water. Reluctantly I called animal control. The animal control officer almost laughed in my face when he came to the house and saw the tiny cat sitting in the garage.
Well even the professional had trouble collaring this cat. The kitten would hide in the smallest of spaces/objects and we could not catch him. Finally after 45 minutes of chasing him around the garage, the cat in trying to escape landed in my fishing bucket and we threw a towel over it and were able to get it in a cage.