I've got Smudge inside for the night

She's in my bedroom right now with food, water and litter box, and
that is where I plan to keep her for the night. There's a lot of
activity outside, although right now it's mostly little kids and
their parents walking around, which I don't think would be any threat
to a cat. But later in the evening, older kids go out and I'm a little
more worried about them. To some kids, Halloween means play scary
pranks on people and maybe animals too - whoever's available - and it
might include hurting them. I don't know, but I'm not going to take
a chance.

When I first got home this evening from errands, Smudge was around,
so I put down her dry food. Then I went upstairs to put stuff away,
when suddenly I heard a loud, very Halloween-like cat screech. I
ran down, worried that some kid was tormenting her, but nope, she
was just giving a hard time to Graham (one of he neighborhood cats)
because he was after her food. But I decided to bring her inside
right then anyway.

Meanwhile, I had bought some candy, and then I went looking around
my apartment for something vaguely Halloweenish. Aha! I have an iron
statue of a cat with a hollowed-out head where you can put a candle.
The eyes are also hollowed out, and I happened to have an orange
candle. Voila - I now have a cat with glowing orange eyes out on my
porch. That got me two doorbell rings!

Joyce

--
If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all that we
wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people
calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
-- Christopher Morley

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When I first got home this evening from errands, Smudge was around,
so I put down her dry food. Then I went upstairs to put stuff away,
when suddenly I heard a loud, very Halloween-like cat screech. I
ran down, worried that some kid was tormenting her, but nope, she
was just giving a hard time to Graham (one of he neighborhood cats)
because he was after her food. But I decided to bring her inside
right then anyway.

I'm glad you have her inside. Hope she doesn't give you too much grief
about it during the night!

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban.
In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Marina wrote:

wrote:

But I decided to bring her inside right then anyway.

I'm glad you have her inside. Hope she doesn't give you too much grief
about it during the night!

She was yowling before, but now she's quiet. Hope she hasn't committed
suicide in there...

--
Loneliness is comforted by the closeness and touch of fur to fur,
skin to skin, or -- skin to fur.
-- Paul Gallico

On Oct 31, 9:45*pm, wrote:
She's in my bedroom right now with food, water and litter box, and
that is where I plan to keep her for the night. There's a lot of
activity outside, although right now it's mostly little kids and
their parents walking around, which I don't think would be any threat
to a cat. But later in the evening, older kids go out and I'm a little
more worried about them. To some kids, Halloween means play scary
pranks on people and maybe animals too - whoever's available - and it
might include hurting them. I don't know, but I'm not going to take
a chance.

When I first got home this evening from errands, Smudge was around,
so I put down her dry food. Then I went upstairs to put stuff away,
when suddenly I heard a loud, very Halloween-like cat screech. I
ran down, worried that some kid was tormenting her, but nope, she
was just giving a hard time to Graham (one of he neighborhood cats)
because he was after her food. But I decided to bring her inside
right then anyway.

Meanwhile, I had bought some candy, and then I went looking around
my apartment for something vaguely Halloweenish. Aha! I have an iron
statue of a cat with a hollowed-out head where you can put a candle.
The eyes are also hollowed out, and I happened to have an orange
candle. Voila - I now have a cat with glowing orange eyes out on my
porch. That got me two doorbell rings!

Joyce

I had trouble with "the round-up" this evening, and Halloween really
wasn't a factor, we're too far out in the country for that.
But I go out and gather Boots and Frank every evening before dusk.
They played every trick in the book to avoid coming in. The
weather was beautiful, and it was nearly a full moon. Boots played
"chase me." That's when she lets you *almost* touch her, then
she sprints off. A variation of this is "chase me under the car."
I finally got mad at her, brought Frank in and shut the door. Lo
and behold, nearly immediately I saw her silhouette in the window.
Silly cat.
Sherry

better safe than sorry good for you, Lee

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Have a great day
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She's in my bedroom right now with food, water and litter box, and
that is where I plan to keep her for the night. There's a lot of
activity outside, although right now it's mostly little kids and
their parents walking around, which I don't think would be any threat
to a cat. But later in the evening, older kids go out and I'm a little
more worried about them. To some kids, Halloween means play scary
pranks on people and maybe animals too - whoever's available - and it
might include hurting them. I don't know, but I'm not going to take
a chance.

When I first got home this evening from errands, Smudge was around,
so I put down her dry food. Then I went upstairs to put stuff away,
when suddenly I heard a loud, very Halloween-like cat screech. I
ran down, worried that some kid was tormenting her, but nope, she
was just giving a hard time to Graham (one of he neighborhood cats)
because he was after her food. But I decided to bring her inside
right then anyway.

Meanwhile, I had bought some candy, and then I went looking around
my apartment for something vaguely Halloweenish. Aha! I have an iron
statue of a cat with a hollowed-out head where you can put a candle.
The eyes are also hollowed out, and I happened to have an orange
candle. Voila - I now have a cat with glowing orange eyes out on my
porch. That got me two doorbell rings!

Joyce

--
If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all that we
wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people
calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
-- Christopher Morley

Meanwhile, I had bought some candy, and then I went looking around
my apartment for something vaguely Halloweenish. Aha! I have an iron
statue of a cat with a hollowed-out head where you can put a candle.
The eyes are also hollowed out, and I happened to have an orange
candle. Voila - I now have a cat with glowing orange eyes out on my
porch. That got me two doorbell rings!

We got no doorbell rings at all, but both of us got home rather too
late for most trick-or-treaters. Halloween was unusually quiet this
year - hardly any fireworks. But a heck of a lot of little girls in
cute witch outfits with ghoulish facepaint (mainly because there had
been a lot of those in the shops this year, I guess). If Halloween
is going quieter that's fine by me.

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Meanwhile, I had bought some candy, and then I went looking around
my apartment for something vaguely Halloweenish. Aha! I have an iron
statue of a cat with a hollowed-out head where you can put a candle.
The eyes are also hollowed out, and I happened to have an orange
candle. Voila - I now have a cat with glowing orange eyes out on my
porch. That got me two doorbell rings!

We got no doorbell rings at all, but both of us got home rather too
late for most trick-or-treaters. Halloween was unusually quiet this
year - hardly any fireworks. But a heck of a lot of little girls in
cute witch outfits with ghoulish facepaint (mainly because there had
been a lot of those in the shops this year, I guess). If Halloween
is going quieter that's fine by me.

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We haven't had any halloweeners in this condo area for over 20 years.
My son said they had 35 visitors that kept the dogs barking.
When I was a child, I had a small half mask only (and was happy with
that). We visited neighbors to "scare"
them but there were no treats. I remember my father fixing a pumpkin
with a battery and little light because candles were dangerous. Some
kids had a sheet draped over them to look like a ghost. MLB