Taking Down…
…the Missing Cat posters was a whole lot more fun than putting them up!
Tiger seems to be adjusting well to being home after being trapped somewhere for 17 days. She thinks she deserves tuna every time the refrigerator door is opened. I’ve petted her so much that I think her fur will rub off - like The Velveteen Rabbit’s fur.
She’s thin and bony - lost a couple of pounds on her adventure. After her first 12 hours of non-stop purring and nuzzling, she crashed all day yesterday, wiped out.
Oh - and Tiger says ‘thanks, everybody’ for looking for her and for wishing her home. Thanks to the two women who saw the posters/ad in the paper and called me, thinking the stray in their neighborhood might be Tiger.
Filed under: life on the ground on April 25th, 2007
All of flyoverpeople was on AMBER TABBY Alert.
Yeah, the Tabby Amber Alert and the ABP have been cancelled!! And I called Animal Control yesterday to cancel their BOLO. (Be On the Look Out for.)
You know, I’d sure like to know where she was, because I could stand to lose a certain percentage of my body weight too. Of course I don’t want to be miserable ……..
I’m so glad she came home.
Janet
UPDATE:
Took Tiger to the vet just to have her checked out - she was wheezing and sneezing.
She was down from 12# to 9#. A fourth of her body weight.
Dr. gave her a prescription for Amoxicillin as a precautionary measure. Said she looks good.
I’d forgotten that I usually transport her in the cat carrier. She was loose in the car and she squeezed UNDER the car seat. I had to lure her out with the PROMISE of tuna.
Welcome home Tiger Kitty! Your trip to the vet reminded me of taking Mandy’s Nola Kitty to show and tell-before they had cat carriers. Bouncing off windows, pee flying all over the car and puncture wounds in my bare legs just from starting the engine. She also hide under the car seat and the trip home was just an instant replay.
Cat carriers are for hurricane evacuation. All cat carriers should come with heavy duty long sleave shirts and welding gloves. You need the above said outfit for a number of reasons.
1. So you can stuff a normal sized cat, who is now 2 inches tall and has a four legged span the size of a picture window, into a door that is smaller than a piece of typing paper. Good thing I opted for the larger model so I could have a door this big.
2. Now try putting the second cat in the same carrier with another cat. See reason #1, again. Kind of like a shampoo bottle, rinse, repeat.
3. If you mannage to get reasons 1 and 2 done, wear the clothes to open the door of above said cat carrier when you arrive at your destination.
So, I put Leon and Otis on a leash when I go the the vet. Leon hides under the seat and Otis rides on the dash, looking out the windshield. Once again this Yankee sticks out like a sore thumb down South.
When we owned a Mom & Pop motel——-I had a friend who managed a humane society & she called & said— I have a kitten that you need to send your Hubby to pick up after work——-& if you will bottle feed it——-until it gets big enough to find it a good home!!!!!!!
She knew we had SUCKER written on our foreheads!!!!!!
But Hubby went & got the kitten-/since I spend most of my hours at the motel lobby desk & switchboard—the kitten was in a basket on the front lobby desk-where all the regulars who stayed with us also feed the kitten & spoiled it rotten!
Well when the kitten became a cat——-it then owned the motel & allowed us & the guests to stay there——-
We had our own switchboard that all calls came through——–we had updated the computer phone system——–& everything was push button on the switchboard! I took all incoming calls– & all out going calls went through the switchboard! So I had to be there to run the switchboard!
Well to make a really-really long story shorter——one of our regulars—-said some one was calling his room in the middle of the night——I told him that would not be possible as ALL calls came through me at the switchboard—he swore his phone was ringing in the middle of the night——–so that night I put a pallet on the floor next to the switchboard——–& watched the switchboard to see if there was any activity——the switchboard rang from this mans’s room—-& he said someone just called my room again——& I told him– I was sleeping next to the switchboard & I had seen no activity——— at which time he came from his room to the front lobby——–& as we were talking THE CAT WALKED ACROSS THE SWITCHBOARD & AS SHE WALKED ON THE PUSH BUTTONS– SHE WAS CALLING ROOMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mystery solved–the cat was calling rooms in the middle of the night——-the cat could no longer stay in the lobby at night & make phone calls!!!!!!!