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Remember this little beauty?
I took this photo of her a few months ago. Then, a month later I saw a sign on the street where I had photographed her that she was missing.
Every time I went for a walk in that part of the neighborhood, I kept an eye out for the cutie, but never saw her.
Today, when I was walking clear across our neighborhood (about 7 streets away and a quarter mile down from where she had lived), I saw a white cat sans tail scamper across the street. She hid behind a trailer wheel, so I slowly crept up and took her photo. I took a second one as she crept away, but I KNEW it was the same kitty!
Once I got home I compared photos and sure enough, it was the same kitty!
I jumped on my bike and rode over to get the phone number on the poster but since it included the address, I stopped by the women's house. She said the kitty was still missing. I said, "I know where she is!"
Of course she didn't believe me and then I shower her the photo in my camera and told her where to find her.
She was SO excited she hugged me and promised to take me to lunch.
On my way home I decided to go back to the place where I saw the kitty but when I neared the street, I saw the guy who owns the kitty in this photo,
who lives near where I saw the white Manx. I stopped him on his walk and asked if he's seen a white Manx and he said the kitty had been hanging around for a couple of weeks now. I told him that the owner was on her way. He said we'd probably find the kitty in his garage (his garage door is almost always open) eating his cat's food.
Sure enough, when I arrived, there was the kitty, chowing down! But she went further into the garage when I approached. I heard someone down the street calling her name and called to them to come to the garage. It was the woman's daughter, who when she saw the cat, knew it was theirs. But the kitty stayed in the garage when she saw the daughter.
Then the woman went cautiously into the garage and called to the kitty. The kitty mewed at her!!! The woman and the kitty then had quite a conversation and the kitty let her pick her up and we all cried and the kitty cried and oh my gosh, I SO know that feeling, having lost Leo
for a week to an attic in the neighborhood and then getting him back!
What relief and disbelief and so many emotions running through them now. And they waited two months to be reunited!
I love it when things have a happy ending!
~Goldey~
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UPDATE I just spoke to the owner who said that Pootcer, aka Pootsie, is very glad to be home! She has had the kitty since Pootcie was six weeks old - she's now 8! And here I thought she was a little one!
Pootcie follows Mom around the house, nibbles on her ear and neck, sits on the back of the chair and leans over to touch her, and purrs! After eating two cans of cat food and some dry food!
She had been gone three months and they had pretty much given up hope. We wonder how she got to where she got to and managed to survive on her own for so long. And she looked none the worse for wear!
I'm so glad the baby is back home!
Clara Is Back!
