Amazing Voyage

jr616 · 03-03-2010, 04:51 PM

Hopefully the powers that be along with you dog lovers will endure a feline based tale of woe.

Simon, our orange tiger DSH (domestic short hair), find his way to "sneak" out of the house. I say sneak b/c my husband has a tendency to forgetfully leave our basement door to the garage open.

It is 2 days until Christmas, 15 degrees, snowing with wind gusts to 30. I spend the next 36 hours calling him, leaving food by the door, walking the woods, leaving the garage door cracked open all night.

Now, having been a cat owner my entire life I know cats will come home I also know I live in the woods and can hear coyotes in my back yard howling after the "catch" their dinner.

At 1:30am the second night I am about to go up to bed and decide to check the garage one more time - sure enough there is our Simon munching down on the treats I left out for him. I slam the garage door shut and wrangle him into the house. Where I find he is not particularly cold but smells very much like the engine compartment of our BOAT - where he had surely been the entire time!

While we do not take the cats to the lake with us in the summer I feel Simon is officially a Winni - Cat!

eillac@dow · 03-04-2010, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by jr616

While we do not take the cats to the lake with us in the summer I feel Simon is officially a Winni - Cat!

As do I!

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03-03-2010, 04:51 PM	#1
jr616 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 88 Thanks: 19 Thanked 19 Times in 12 Posts	Hopefully the powers that be along with you dog lovers will endure a feline based tale of woe. Simon, our orange tiger DSH (domestic short hair), find his way to "sneak" out of the house. I say sneak b/c my husband has a tendency to forgetfully leave our basement door to the garage open. It is 2 days until Christmas, 15 degrees, snowing with wind gusts to 30. I spend the next 36 hours calling him, leaving food by the door, walking the woods, leaving the garage door cracked open all night. Now, having been a cat owner my entire life I know cats will come home I also know I live in the woods and can hear coyotes in my back yard howling after the "catch" their dinner. At 1:30am the second night I am about to go up to bed and decide to check the garage one more time - sure enough there is our Simon munching down on the treats I left out for him. I slam the garage door shut and wrangle him into the house. Where I find he is not particularly cold but smells very much like the engine compartment of our BOAT - where he had surely been the entire time! While we do not take the cats to the lake with us in the summer I feel Simon is officially a Winni - Cat!

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