bkdelong

I love my cats.....really, I do. However two weekends ago when I was doing laundry in the basement, I opened up the 3 windows that had hand-made screens I put together based on kits from Home Depot. As I headed downstairs to do another load, I noticed our oldest cat Chelsie (an 11 year old white American shorthair) sitting outside one of the windows.

I FREAKED. Chelsie had lived outside several years ago when she was staying with Kirky's parents. I had always feared she longed for that time again. But true to my prediction, she popped back inside after I opened a can of wet cat food within ear-shot. It wasn't for an hour later that I realized Nessa (our cute imp of a gray Maine coon...1 yr old in June) was nowhere to be found. I walked all over the neighborhood, in our neighbor's backyards and just sat inside. Kirky was at her grandmother's and I was alone. Finally I caught sight of her in our neighbor's yard a little while later. I headed out with the can of food and ....she didn't fall for it.

So I chased her back into the front. Sure enough, she ran around the front yard and sat in front of the window. Although for some reason....she wouldn't go in. Kirky arrived to find me distraught and went to the basement. One "cat-calling" later and Nessa was in her arms. *sigh* I just don't have the right touch.

Cute Nessa and sleeping, sunbathing Chelsie

Kirky was in the basement while I was still sleeping this morning cleaning up. I looked out the front door after I slumped down the stairs and, much to my horror, found Chelsie outside again. Kirky was livid...since she had just repaired the screen before leaving the window open. However she was the calmist of the two of us and I remained depressed, paranoid and sat nursing a painful headache resulting from oversleeping.

Almost 8 hours later, (after we shut Chelsie in the upstairs bedroom) Nessa came meowing her way saunteringly into the living room in search of food and a place to use the bathroom. Harrumph. What are we? A cat hotel ;)

I couldn't have been happier. Needless to say, we'll be affixing both of them with new collars and I'm tempted to inject them both with GPS locating transmitters.

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