First, thank you all so much for all the prayers, good thoughts, and encouragement. I know how powerful these prayers are and I have no doubt that that is what brought my boy home. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!
I had already done everything I could think of and hubby and I sat on the front porch for hours this evening. I told hubby that I was going to go sit in the backyard for awile and talk to myself. I went and sat in the middle of the yard (thanks for that piece of advice Johanna!) and I talked. Then I cried and prayed out loud over and over. I called to Pete and said where ever you my little Pete Monster I hope you can feel all the love I have for you. Please let it bring you home. After sitting there for over an hour sweating, crying, praying, and being eaten alive by every bug in the world, I gave up. I stood up to go back to the front of the house and I saw something in my daylillies right behind where I had been sitting. I thought it was one of the ferals and I stopped to talk to it. It was so dark but then I heard that precious Pete meow!
Things got bad for a while because he wouldn't let me touch him. He would talk to me but would stay about a foot away from me. I went running around the front of the house and told hubby to gather all the other cats into a room (that was chore!) and prop the front door open. Pete went onto the porch and stepped in the house but saw hubby trying to catch Rosco and he ran back out! It took another thirty minutes of me in a tree and all kinds of other tricks to finally get him back to the porch where he went inside. I slowly came in behind him and shut the door! PETE IS HOME!!!!!!!
He won't let me touch him yet but thats ok. He seems to have a slight limp but thats ok too. Other than that he looks pretty good. He needs time to calm down and eat and I have no doubt that by tomorrow morning I will be mooching all over my precious boy!!!
Thank you isn't enough but thats all I can say. I can finally sleep tonight. God Bless all of you for being so wonderful and helping me through this. A big Thank You to God for bringing my boy safely home.
I'm off to take a much needed shower!
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