All Creatures Great And Small
10-28-2002, 01:31 AM
..........and here is the story that goes with this picture:
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Dudley here is an indoor kitty, at least until I can come up with some sort of confinement system in the backyard. My husband insists he remain an indoor kitty. I know everybody has different ideas of whether kitties should be indoor or outdoor, and I respect that. So anyway....it was a nice warm summer night, and my daughter had put her pet rats outside in their little bunny hutch. Around midnight, I decided I should bring the little stinkers in (my daughter had gone to a friend's house to spend the night). As I was trying to come in the back door with a handful of ratties, my "indoor" kitty decided to make a break for it and become an "outdoor" kitty. This is only the 3rd time he's gotten loose outside since I've had him. I didn't realize he was out until I got the rats back in their cage, and by then he was nowhere in sight. I figured oh well, it's his own fault if anything happens to him, the dummy. But after about 2 hours, I was starting to feel really bad, because you just don't know what they might get into outside. I live in a quiet residential area with mostly retirement-age neighbors who like to feed the birds, so I don't like to let my kitty run around free. He also has gotten into some "shouting matches" with other neighborhood kitties, which I'm sure sleeping people don't appreciate. By this time it had started to thunderstorm, and the rain was coming down pretty good. I went out once or twice with a flashlight, but couldn't find him anywhere. So at about 3 AM, I hear this god-awful cat fighting noise outside. I ran out there, in the pouring rain, and there is my kitty mixing it up with a "visitor", right under my neighbor's open bedroom window. As soon as the kitties saw me, they both took off running ACROSS THE STREET into another neighbor's front yard, and here I am chasing them (in my nightgown and bare feet, no less) in the pouring rain and muddy grass. When we all got across the street, the kitties stopped long enough for me to get about 2 feet away, and then took off running again. Mine ran back across the street into my neighbor's driveway and UNDER HER CAR. So I squatted down as best I could and reached under the car, and my kitty HISSED at me and crawled over to the other side. So I went around to the other side of the car, and had to LAY DOWN IN A PUDDLE next to the car to reach under again, and the damn cat crawled over to the other side again. I finally managed to crawl partially under the car and grab my little fugitive, who was still hissing at me, and drag him into the house, where he received quite a scolding. So this is a picture of him right after he got back into the house, all wet, spiky, and mad. (Kind of like me!:D )
Anybody else got a picture with a story?
http://www.geocities.com/myerssh61@sbcglobal.net/nk.jpg
Dudley here is an indoor kitty, at least until I can come up with some sort of confinement system in the backyard. My husband insists he remain an indoor kitty. I know everybody has different ideas of whether kitties should be indoor or outdoor, and I respect that. So anyway....it was a nice warm summer night, and my daughter had put her pet rats outside in their little bunny hutch. Around midnight, I decided I should bring the little stinkers in (my daughter had gone to a friend's house to spend the night). As I was trying to come in the back door with a handful of ratties, my "indoor" kitty decided to make a break for it and become an "outdoor" kitty. This is only the 3rd time he's gotten loose outside since I've had him. I didn't realize he was out until I got the rats back in their cage, and by then he was nowhere in sight. I figured oh well, it's his own fault if anything happens to him, the dummy. But after about 2 hours, I was starting to feel really bad, because you just don't know what they might get into outside. I live in a quiet residential area with mostly retirement-age neighbors who like to feed the birds, so I don't like to let my kitty run around free. He also has gotten into some "shouting matches" with other neighborhood kitties, which I'm sure sleeping people don't appreciate. By this time it had started to thunderstorm, and the rain was coming down pretty good. I went out once or twice with a flashlight, but couldn't find him anywhere. So at about 3 AM, I hear this god-awful cat fighting noise outside. I ran out there, in the pouring rain, and there is my kitty mixing it up with a "visitor", right under my neighbor's open bedroom window. As soon as the kitties saw me, they both took off running ACROSS THE STREET into another neighbor's front yard, and here I am chasing them (in my nightgown and bare feet, no less) in the pouring rain and muddy grass. When we all got across the street, the kitties stopped long enough for me to get about 2 feet away, and then took off running again. Mine ran back across the street into my neighbor's driveway and UNDER HER CAR. So I squatted down as best I could and reached under the car, and my kitty HISSED at me and crawled over to the other side. So I went around to the other side of the car, and had to LAY DOWN IN A PUDDLE next to the car to reach under again, and the damn cat crawled over to the other side again. I finally managed to crawl partially under the car and grab my little fugitive, who was still hissing at me, and drag him into the house, where he received quite a scolding. So this is a picture of him right after he got back into the house, all wet, spiky, and mad. (Kind of like me!:D )
Anybody else got a picture with a story?