When Your Pet's Missing...You Can Think Of Little Else

It was a mystery.

A real head-scratcher. 

Thankfully, the mystery was solved...

Sort of.

Today, we were busy, moving things around. The front door was wide open a lot. The puppy was behind a gate to avoid him bolting, but our indoor cat. Well...no worries there. Because our indoor cat is always indoor. This thing hates being outside. We've got two cats, one a hunter who spends equal time inside and outside.

When we adopted our other cat, we just assumed he would do the same. That did not happen. We even put him in his kennel and carted him outside to see if he'd end up liking it. Turns out he stayed inside the kennel.

So, after we moved everything that needed moving, we turned around and asked, "Where's the cat?"

No clue.

We searched every inch of our house and, nothing. We thought the cat might have gotten scared or mad and just bolted out the door and into the great wide world. The only problem is, since he hates outside so much, we could not have imagined him even walking through the door.

That was around noon.

At 10:30pm tonight, the cat gingerly walked out of our master bath. We have no idea where he was. Each one of us checked that bathroom over and over again. We even opened the cabinet door to see if he had been shut in.

Point is, the cat either obviously didn't want to be found all day (he's got a very loud meow...), or he was abducted by aliens and returned hours later.

See what I mean, a mystery...a real head-scratcher. 

We're just glad he's been found.

How Did You Spend Your Friday The 13th? We Looked For Our Cat...

Those of you who share a residence with a cat will understand when I say that our cat has a mind of his own. He's also got his own schedule, a schedule we've done well to accommodate. Our cat's also a hunter and he spends a large chunk of the day in the fields around our house and on the mountain on which we live.

Of course, when you live on the mountain and you're a domesticated cat, there are lots of other animals that hunt, too...animals that hunt domesticated cats.

So when the cat deviated from his well-established schedule today, I've got to tell you, I was a little worried. There's so many things that can get a cat, not to mention cars or dogs. Every couple of hours I opened the front door to see if he was out there.

A few months after we picked up this cat from my cousin's farm in Idaho he went missing for a day. We've had cats before that disappeared and we thought the same thing happened to him. Luckily a neighbor said he heard a cat meowing in an old unused garage. I looked and found our cat cold, hungry and glad someone came along to let him out.

Today we kept checking and the cat had not shown up, so we told the kids we were worried about him. We asked them to say a little prayer for his return. The thought of having to tell the kids that one of our pets was gone for good breaks my heart just thinking of it.

This afternoon I decided to check one more time and there, coming up the stairs was our cat. I have no idea where he spent the night last night, but I hope he doesn't decide to make this a common occurrence. But, at least for today, he's back. 

And we're glad.