Smudgie is Lost!

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:43:59 +0100, "Sharon & Smudgie"
wrote:

Bumping this to the top I'm logging on all the time hoping to see
"Smudgie's Home!"- could you post it in this thread as well when she
is as I have it set at work to update me when someone posts to the
thread?

We are sending purrs...tons of purrs....megatons of
purrs......gigatons of purrs.....

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Hi Everyone

Well, we went trapping all weekend until after midnight but nothing.
Smudgie hasn't been seen since last Tueday by Kylie and I'm wondering
whether she has found somewhere else to sleep and hunt? We have had heavy
rain on and off for the past few days, and she hates getting wet, so perhaps
that put her off going to the woods. I believe she was spending the daytime
elsewhere and going into the woods only at night as she was always seen on
her way into the woods or in the shrubbery on the edge of the trees around
9.30 at night.

Now my problem is where exactly has she moved on to? Luckily my DH is off
work this week so he will put some posters up on the estate on the other
side of the woods and fields and pop leaflets through doors there. It will
be 3 weeks on Wednesday Kylie said Smudgie will be feral now because of
her instinct to get food and water, even if she has to fight for it. That
made me smile I must admit cos Smudgie has always been super feisty and I
can imagine her behaving like that cartoon Tasmanian Devil, wizzing about
like a tornado and scoffing all the cat food left out within a 2 mile
radius!

If only I knew where she was now, when she was being seen at the woods every
night I felt certain we would have got her back by now. Now she could be
anywhere and I don't know where to start. Her "cat nav" needs some fine
tuning that's for sure!

Thanks for the continuing purrs, I'm sure she can hear them but she doesn't
know they are to guide her home!

Sharon



You have done (and are still doing) ALL the right things; Smudgie should
have been found in three days, not three weeks

I think you are right that Smudgie has moved someplace with shelter from
the rain. The woods would not provide sufficient shelter from heavy
rain.

Cats are nothing if not resourceful.

Widening the radius of where you place posters is the best thing you can
do right now, and hope there is another helpful person who will report
her whereabouts to you again, as the woman who was walking her dog did.

Purrs continue for Smudgie's return.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein



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