I'm cat-sitting for my friends who have left this morning for two weeks in America. Done it loads of times before, whether the odd weekend or two weeks when they went on honeymoon, and never had any troubles. But today their most homebody cat is nowhere to be found.
L is about seven years old and an incredibly sweet but daft thing who almost never leaves their small garden, unless it's to pop into nextdoor's. She just likes sunbathing on their garden table or sitting on a windowsill inside. If you call her then she meows and comes running, and doubly quick if she hears you rattling a food packet or dentabite pot. Tried that several times this evening but no response.
Apparently she wasn't around when my friends left at about 11am, though both their cats are shut in overnight so she'd been around as normal first thing. One of them was sick but that's not hugely unusual and they didn't report her being off-colour otherwise. She's never not made an appearance when I visit to check on them and shut them in for a night; and their other cat was around and seemed fine.
L has been shut in places by accident before but I checked the closed-to-cats bedrooms and the one big cupboard, and called her loads but heard no meowing coming from anywhere. I left the cat-flap on entry only and fingers crossed she'll be there in the morning, but if not this is going to put a major downer on my friend's holiday since L is particularly special to her. I text every time I visit so already had to send her a message saying L wasn't around, which she'll probably get soon after they land in NY.
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givemushypeasachance · 27/09/2014 22:25
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