I FOUND THE CAT!

monster · 08-19-2010, 09:46 AM

More later. It's quite a story. Sorta. I need to feel like a hero. It involves a tree and a bag. But right now I'm off to get my blood drawn for my cholesterol test -I'm starving. yes, folks, that's right, I was a hero on an empty belly.

Griff · 08-19-2010, 09:57 AM

On the upside, you can safely eat Korean on your way home.

Shawnee123 · 08-19-2010, 10:03 AM

I think you need a cape and a big S on your shirt!

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to catch small cats on an empty stomach. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Supermonster!

limey · 08-19-2010, 10:07 AM

This thread has been wrongly placed in Nothingland. That's really Something, Monster!

morethanpretty · 08-19-2010, 10:09 AM

Thats awesome monster!

lumberjim · 08-19-2010, 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Griff

On the upside, you can safely eat Korean on your way home.

why else would she have been cat hunting?

Sundae · 08-19-2010, 10:48 AM

Cats found and cats returned are a cause for real celebration.
Invite the neighbours in, saying to them, "Rejoice with me, for I have found what I had lost" or something like that.

Well done Monster!

Nirvana · 08-19-2010, 10:51 AM

LOL S123~! Yay SuperMonster!

Cloud · 08-19-2010, 12:05 PM

good!

(. . . . sniff)

squirell nutkin · 08-19-2010, 12:40 PM

Condolences to you.

Griff · 08-19-2010, 01:42 PM

I found Simon's Cat.

Shawnee123 · 08-19-2010, 01:51 PM

Oh my, that is the cutest little cat animation I think I've ever seen! Now I luvz Simon.

monster · 08-19-2010, 01:51 PM

Yours is still gone, cloud? i'm sorry.

This one wasn't even mine -she's the mother of my cats and I was feeding her and her other son while my friend is away.

She's a tiny Siamese (7lb) and frequently goes "missing" More than once she has gotten herself "adopted" by well meaning people who think she looks thin so must be homeless, so take her in and don't let her out again. She is microchipped (and now collared and tagged too). Sometimes she finds a way across the river at the bottom of the yard and can't seem to get back. She's al;so gotten herself locked in a garge for three days.

So, she didn't come home Monday evening. no panic.. Not even the first time on my watch. Not Tuesday morning, but last night was three nights, I had searched all over and asked all the usual people and nothing, so i had to contact her owners and they emailed me a poster with a picture to put up. I printed out several copies and this morning went over, hoping the act of printing the posters would invoke sod's law and she'd be home already. But nope.

So I went round on my bike, flyering the street and putting one in each lobby of all the apartment blocks across the river where she gets herself stuck and/or adopted. No-one had seen her for a few days.

I had one flyer left to put in the last apartment block when there was a god-almighty cat fight just outside the block i was heading for her. Of course it would be just too convenient for it to be her, but I had to check it out and lo and behold it was. there she was, treed by a much bigger cat whose is apparently named "sugar" and is a nasty piece of work. Sugar's neighbot also had a cat and the lovely young man shoed Sugar away and then went to get some food to tempt Bluebelle down.

She wasn't having it, but was meowing like crazy. so I decided to take her picture -if there's one thing guaranteed to get a cat to move it's trying to take it's picture. I couldn't believe it when she started to move. The food came, and she seemed interested in that too, but she was pretty scared and it was a hard tree to climb down. She could've jumped at this point, but I don't think she knew that. Anyway, I climbed up onto the car port roof and soon I could grab her. I had to drage her out of the tree by the scruff of her neck and her collar, but once I got her i cuddled her and she calmed. then the UPS truck screeched by and she freaked. So there I am, a mile from "home" as the human walks (along a busy commercial street), with a frightened wriggly cat.

So I used my super duper bike bags -special huge, zippered ones that started to look amazingly like pet carriers once I had realized it was her in the tree, so fortunately i had already emptied one just in case. I wrestled her in -there was plenty of room for her, she's so small and they're so big, zipped her up and was about to leave when a "helpful" resident openined his window and yold me she's not a stray, she lives around the apartment blocks. So I had to "chat" to him for a while to convince him i wasn't catnapping, and then off we went.

Uneventful ride back, closed the door, unzipped the bag and out she popped like she'd never been away. But boy was she hungry. i don't know where she's been -I'm pretty sure she wasn't up that tree when I went searching yesterday, but she certainly hadn't been fed recently. She's normally very fussy and eats only a little, but she wolfed everything in sight.

I popped back a couple of hours later and she was as right as rain.

Here she is, up the tree, starting to come down, and home and hungry.

Shawnee123 · 08-19-2010, 01:52 PM

She looks like my (dear departed) Toonces. Except he weighed 19 lbs.

monster · 08-19-2010, 02:02 PM

That's what her son weighs.

08-19-2010, 09:46 AM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I FOUND THE CAT! More later. It's quite a story. Sorta. I need to feel like a hero. It involves a tree and a bag. But right now I'm off to get my blood drawn for my cholesterol test -I'm starving. yes, folks, that's right, I was a hero on an empty belly. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-19-2010, 09:57 AM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	On the upside, you can safely eat Korean on your way home. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-19-2010, 10:03 AM	#3
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I think you need a cape and a big S on your shirt! Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to catch small cats on an empty stomach. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Supermonster! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-19-2010, 10:07 AM	#4
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	This thread has been wrongly placed in Nothingland. That's really Something, Monster! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

08-19-2010, 10:09 AM	#5
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	Thats awesome monster! __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

08-19-2010, 10:48 AM	#7
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Cats found and cats returned are a cause for real celebration. Invite the neighbours in, saying to them, "Rejoice with me, for I have found what I had lost" or something like that. Well done Monster!

08-19-2010, 10:51 AM	#8
Nirvana Back in 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,684	LOL S123~! Yay SuperMonster! __________________ Speaking simply... do not confuse this with having a simple mind.

08-19-2010, 12:05 PM	#9
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	good! (. . . . sniff) __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

08-19-2010, 12:40 PM	#10
squirell nutkin has a second hand user title Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: in a Nut House Posts: 2,017	Condolences to you. __________________ And now I'm finished posting.

08-19-2010, 01:42 PM	#11
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I found Simon's Cat. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-19-2010, 01:51 PM	#12
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Oh my, that is the cutest little cat animation I think I've ever seen! Now I luvz Simon. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-19-2010, 01:52 PM	#14
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	She looks like my (dear departed) Toonces. Except he weighed 19 lbs. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-19-2010, 02:02 PM	#15
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	That's what her son weighs. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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