he listened patiently to his buddy explain how his cat got out of the house the night before

Chances are he said to him had you let her be she would have turned up the next morning when she got good and hungry I wouldnt think that shed flee the hill you live on

Yeah, that occurred to me too  but she hasn’t been fixed and she’s in heat I’d forgotten the sounds a female makes when she’s in heat.

The sounds she makes the Toms crying bothers me more

You haven’t heard Toby, my god, what a racket she can make,gets me at some level deeper than fingernails on a chalkboarddeeper.

Ouch  I can relate

Yeah, it’s something else.

I didnt mean to interruptyou were saying

Yeah. She busted past meId set the canvas grocery bags down to bar her way but she made like a free runneran acrobat cartwheeling off the front door to the screen door pinwheeling onto the porch.

Sounds marvelous

Actually was marvelous. I was dumbfounded. And she was gone into the night. A calico disappears into the night effortlessly.

You went after her immediately.

I did I tripped over the grocery bags heading in the house, going in after the flashlight in the kitchen drawer.

I went out with the torch lit calling her name. Walked all around the front of the houseinto the car portlaid down on the drive to peer under the car. She was nowhere to be seen.

An wasnt making a soundIll bet

Yeah.  Not a sound.   It was the quietest I could remember. I went back into the house and put away the groceries.

Then after the groceries were away you went back outside looking for her

I did.

You took a breath and thought if you were her where would you go

I did. That’s crazy, how did you know?

I got cats too Im thinking outloud what I would do

I suppose we'd do the same.

Without a doubt  Theyre pets but we have emotional ties to them    Roles reversed theyd come after us

Yeah. I think the same.

Yeah  An so

Sooo  I went around the house gently calling her name. When I got to the side of the house I thought about under the porchit runs across the front of the house and halfway down its side.

Bingo

Yeah, exactly. When my flashlight hit her eyesthem peering back at me bright red I almost shit.

Devilish looking against the blackhuh

Yeah. She frightened me.  Then when my eyes adjusted I could see her colouring beyond her eyes. There was a Tom with her. I call him Youre no Robert Redford. He’s burnt orangetail missingcropped cutoffwho knows. He was further back behind her. She seemed oblivious of him.

Thats something  You didnt catch them midhump
Hey, that’s my girl.

A girls got needs  just like you

I suppose . .
. . You have no needs

I get you.

Thought you would

An so

Sooo  I got down on my belly in front of the steps leading up the porch and talked to her, calling her over to me. I must have spent twenty minutes on my belly talking to her while they were lit up by the torch. A couple of times she moved towards me, but I hadn’t any way of reaching her through the steps.

Then it occurred to me. I had to lure her, she missed dinner, I feed them when I get home from work.

An she ran out

Yeah.  It occurred to me to lure her with food.

Brilliant

I thought so.

Well before you go furthur into your escapades Id like to say one thing

Yeah.

Youd be a miserable paedophile

What?

Miserable paedophile Wanna piece of candy lil girl

OhJesus.

I dont think hed bite  But mebbe

1400ish,  Friday, 11  5. 18

1122,  Saturday,  19  5. 18

Vehicle  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxJFjO4Skgo  Ides of March