My little Gus is finally home! Thanks to everyone again for helping me worry...it's so much easier to worry with people who understand.

Last night I couldn't sleep because I kept thinking about him so I finally got up around midnight and got on the computer. Just then I heard a cat fight out near the parking lot and looked out the window to see a big black cat near the dumpster. I thought it probably had nothing to do with Gus but I had to go see anyway...and there he was - in the sewer . Why, oh why, didn't I check all the sewers in the first place? Here I was thinking he would go into the woods when I had just rescued him from a sewer two weeks ago and that's what he knows best.

Needless to say he couldn't make it easy on me and just let me pick him up, so I baited my cat trap and went out to check on it every 45 minutes until 5:00am. (The things I do for cats!!!! ) But Gus wasn't having anything to do with that nasty trap that got him last time. I was really starting to get sad (combination stress and no sleep) so I just sat outside the sewer in my pjs and coat and talked to him. I told him I loved him and his Daddy and I missed him and his big brother Squirt had no one to put in a headlock.....and eventually his little orange face poked out of the sewer. I kept talking and held out my hand and finally he began to knead his paws and came over to me. I grabbed him by his scruff, stuck him in my coat and ran inside.

I'm so glad he's back!!!! I love him so much even though we haven't been together very long. He's going to have to have little patches cut out of his fur where he has black grease that the cat shampoo wouldn't clean up, but he's already sleeping in the sun and purring.

I'm so happy!!!! Thanks again everybody!!!!