Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Mufasa, Lost and Found

I was amazed to see how long it has been since I had put anything on this blog.
On Saturday we returned from a friends house BBQ and discovered that Mufasa was missing. 
We spent a lot of time searching for him.  On Sunday morning I was supposed to go to the cabin with Mark and Betty, but I refused to leave without Mufasa being found. So instead I attended church and bore my testimony in Relief Society (I didn't mention the cat).  It was fast sunday and so I fasted and prayed for Mufasa's return.  I posted about my missing cat on Facebook, Craig's List, and Nextdoor.  On Monday morning I had designed a Lost Cat Flyer and was getting ready to print some when my friend Barbara Winder called me.  We have a "Nextdoor" Skyline-Eagle-Rock Group of neighbors and she had received an e-mail about my lost cat. Another blessing, because I didn't use a lot of printer ink to print flyers.   So Mufasa was missing from Saturday about 5pm until Monday morning at 11am. It was amazing how far up in a huge tree he was since his front feet are declawed.  He was up in the tree 25 to 30 feet.
 I'm so glad to have him back.  He ate briefly and had a long exhausted looking sleep. I've kept their leashes on them since he returned so they can easily be stopped from running out the door. (I think Mufasa escaped from the  house to the garage when one of our four interns went out to get food from the refrigerator, then went out the garage window, and then excaped from the chain link fenced back yard.
My Nextdoor post:
Found in the Neighborhood                                                              
Vicky Van Sickle from Skyline-Eagle Rock
         
Photo from Vicky Van Sickle
This Neighborhood site really works! Thanks to a great neighborhood, I have my dear little declawed cat back! I live on Blue Ridge Circle, a friend who (who lives on Oma Jean Dr. ) saw my posting about a lost cat. She had sent her son to feed a neighbor's cat who lives on Harold Dr. and her son heard a cat up in a tree meowing loudly. She called me and I rushed over. A man (who lives on Blue Camas Court) heard me talking to my cat and said he would climb the tree for me and get him down. Many thanks to all those who helped rescue my cat.

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