Escape!  

You had plenty of excitement today for both of us. I had none, I think. Hmmm. Now yesterday I did have to vouch for the cat that belongs to the neighbor to my south. He is a home owner and we know him, and his pets, etc. Things go pretty regular. On the other side, the north, we have a pretty constant stream of renters, some nice, some not so, some social, some very reserved. I do not even know them when I see them. There was a young lady and a kid, trying to sweet talk one of my kitties through the fence, and I asked if she needed help or thought she knew my cat, etc. She said, "Oh no, I am just visiting. But my friend here thinks that he has seen my cat I lost over around here." Being a cat lover I ask when her cat was lost, and from where, and what kind of cat, etc. Seems she lost her manx black striped female cat eleven months ago, about three miles from here. I let her know right away that the neighbors black striped manx is a neutered male that he got last January and he is only a few months old. That is about as exciting as it gets here.

Hey Elic! OMG! I hope that you will be able to get all the
little Escapees back home safe and sound soon! How awful!
I can't imagine how terrible it is to have to keep count of
all those little monsters! I just hope that they will all find
their way back home when they get hungry enough! Please keep us
up to date about the latest events and I will pray that all the
Escapees are returned home without any further problems!

hi ElicBxn nope not a bit of excitement here in Gold Crest except for several squabbles between several of the residents here. one bossy hungarian lady telling a bossy vietnamese lady just what she thought of her and finally George the president of us residents stepped in and made both calm down and behave like adults instead of teen agers. Neither of them were y oung, Josephine is probably fifty and the other lady a bit older. I do think Josephine the Hungarian said something uncalled for to the Vietnamese lady. We live here in California in a settlement of Vietnamese people who came to southern California in boats a few years back. I guess they liked our climate here. The Vietnamese people here are very nice neighbors, quiet and well mannered, and they take their elderly p;eople into their homes, no nursing homes for them. I love that about them really.

I feel so awful for you! I can so totally relate to having the cats escape. The patio was screened so that the cats could be "outside" without being outside. Unfortunately I have to do a ton of work on the patio so that the cats are secure on it. Right now there is so much wood and stuff propped up against the screening.

Willy, Khuay, and Murphy aren't interested in being outdoors. They love the patio and will go sun themselves and sleep out there. Dinglebeary is the one who wants to go out. He'll find escape routes and use them. He gets outside and then is terrorized and hides under the house. I HAVE to go under the house and rescue him. So, I don't let them out on the patio if I am not going to be home all day, I worry too much that Dinglebeary would get outside again and it isn't my favorite activity to hunt him down and bring him back in the house.

My big excitement today...I planted more garden and then Bill and I cut more firewood for next winter. (A neighbor gave us the wood from his old deck, and we've gotten about a cord of wood out of it. YEAH!)

Darn cats always looking for trouble or what!! At least you rescued most of them - I hope kitties don't ensue from this one!!

They certainly keep you busy, don't they!

The other day I was outside and the neighbor's 3 dogs were out. Maverick, the young Boston Terrier, was chasing my Gus up and down our fence. Gauge was following Maverick and the little girl whose name I don't know was just barking, encouraging them. I kept them in place verbally until my neighbor realized what had happened. I would have gone outside the gate and put them in their own yard but I had to put a lock on my fence and if I'd gone to get the key, Gauge would have wandered off.

I had to lock the gate because around January someone decided to come in my yard and left the gate open. I have no idea why. But Gus escaped and he hasn't the sense God gave a flea. I finally found him and the gates have been locked every since.

Lol why do us Gaby's always get caught first it is just not fair at all
Have you got them all back yet???
I really hope so
No I have not had any excitement today well apart from reading this lol

My excitement for Sunday?
Don't ask... involves unpleasant bodily functions...

Craftly little felines aren't they hun. I hope you have managed to catch them all again now, it's amazing what they can achieve when they put their little furry minds to it.

Well, you should know; you cleaned up all my "excitement" today!

Maggiepie
"Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus." ~~ Sept. 18, 1813, Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Canby