fur kids

my eldest furkid cat went missing tonight
&
as anyone who has cats know ... they can find places to hide that won't ever be discovered until they are darn good & ready to be found ...

so here we are, middle of the night, calling for the cat, freaked out because if for any odd cat reason she decided after 14+ years to actually go outside at night, she'd be owl or coyote food...
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a total houe cat & fully domesticated
(she looks at mice & shows us, her people, where they are hiding to evacuate them, not kill mind you but simply remove & relocate)
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so we are near frantic, and she is sleeping in the closet
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we both cryed when we found her
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she has been with us since before her eyes were opened
(dropped off & left as a tiny baby stray kitty by someone who felt that their cat needed to experience 'motherhood' with none of the commitment or responibility as parents either furred or other wise, like a lot of folks these days is seems (& not just for furkids)
.
so we adopted her while she was still wanting to be nursing & still had her little green eyes closed...
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not really a cat, a fur kid
our furkid
and we'll have to find a way to not spazz when she has decided that she wants to sleep in the closet instead of the bedroom with the rest of us.
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altho that likely won't happen
it is good to have all the furkids in the same room at night.
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if the very worst happens, we can scoop & contain them all & be out of the house fairly quickly ...
and they have to sleep with us, their non-furred parents,
every night because that's just the way we do things in this house
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