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
