{"id":3334,"date":"2008-12-21T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2008-12-21T13:00:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T20:00:47","slug":"lost-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/21\/lost-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST CAT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our beloved monster cat, Scout, is missing.<\/p>\n

We think he went out the backdoor while Paul was working in the backyard yesterday afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless the weather isn’t agreeable, Paul always works with the backdoor open.\u00c2\u00a0 Scout tends to hang around the door, but has never ventured like this before.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not his style (he’s a bit of a ‘fraidy cat).\u00c2\u00a0 There have been dozens of times since last night where either Paul or I thought it strange that Scout wasn’t under foot — but neither of us compared notes and put it all together that he was missing until this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s strange, but not uncommon, that he isn’t sleeping with us at night (maybe he’s with Will?)\u00c2\u00a0 It’s strange, but not uncommon, that he isn’t begging for food at the crack of dawn (maybe he’s asleep under the Christmas tree?)\u00c2\u00a0 But when Paul sat in his chair this morning with the kids and Scout didn’t show up to lay on his lap, we realized something was very very wrong.<\/p>\n

He has never been outside for any extended time.\u00c2\u00a0 After several days of temperatures in reaching 80 degrees, last night turned cold and rainy.<\/p>\n

We are completely distraught.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve canvased the neighborhood a dozen times.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve flyered houses and cars.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve crawled under houses.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve called and whistled.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve got food outside.<\/p>\n

The kids don’t really understand what is wrong, just that Scout isn’t here (“hey, Mommy, I miss Scout!”), and the fact that they can simply play is both a testament to their innocence and the most annoying thing in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m trying to keep myself in check and not direct my worry and frustration into anger at the kids.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t they realize that Mommy and Daddy’s hearts are breaking??<\/p>\n

Please help us wish our first baby back home.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 1:52pm.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul found him!\u00c2\u00a0 On his fourth trip under our neighbor’s house, crawling through fiberglass insulation and petrified cat poop, Paul discovered a small tunnel\/path leading to the attached shed on the back of her house… the shed where the water heater is located.\u00c2\u00a0 Scout was there, freaked out, and ran away from Paul.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly, when Paul first looked under her house, he swore he saw something dart around and kept coming back to that area to look.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, fourth time is the charm.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul emerged much dirtier than the cat, who was instantly placed in the tub and washed liberally with Will’s shampoo (much to Will’s delight).<\/p>\n

We are making him tags and getting a collar right away.\u00c2\u00a0 One that he can’t pry off.\u00c2\u00a0 The little shit.<\/p>\n

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Our beloved monster cat, Scout, is missing. We think he went out the backdoor while Paul was working in the backyard yesterday afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless the weather isn’t agreeable, Paul always works with the backdoor open.\u00c2\u00a0 Scout tends to hang around the door, but has never ventured like this before.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not his style (he’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[137,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}