heartbaker

Thanks for the welcome back! I appreciate it. One of the good ways SG has stayed the same is the existence of friendly folks. I always took it for granted, but after a long absence it is a welcome sight, to be sure.

I am sorry about your little furry friend. When I moved last summer, our cats managed to break through the window screen on a cool summer windows-open night. No amount of calling or food-shaking encouraged them to come home. I cried and cried, thinking they had struck out into the wild in search of our the old house. Luckily for us, Stumpy and Leeloo had just been hiding since they jumped through the window and couldn't get back inside, and they came back when it got dark and they got hungry. Had they not been so lucky--and it was luck, since it was a college football game day and the streets were filled with drunk drivers lacking familiarity with the city streets--I would have been heartbroken and would still be depressed. Cats can be wonderful companions, and losing them is a heartbreak that is very slow to heal.

If I could keep my damn cat indoors, I'd be taking him to get fixed but he escapes and is gone for 2 days. I can't keep him indoors longer than 12 hours.