Zoe’s outside.
Everybody else is indoors and all tucked in for the night. Last I saw her, she was staying right up against the cabin.
Somebody suggested I might be getting attached to her. Heh. Ridiculous.
She’ll probably be fine.
The biggest danger would be owls, because you can’t hear or smell them coming. And hawks, of course, but I don’t think they hunt at night. And coyotes, yeah, but she could maybe outrun a coyote.
So owls and hawks and coyotes. That’s not so bad.
Yeah, she’ll be fine.
And I guess – if the cat were exceptionally stupid – maybe rattlesnakes.
But that’s it. Yeah. That’s the final list. Owls and hawks and coyotes and rattlesnakes. Not so bad.
And scorpions.
Jesus, go find her!!!!!!!
Did she make it? Did she make it?
(Beautiful piece of writing, tho …)
My friend… unless you are prepared to spend a lot of time and anguish looking for her, calling her, trying to grab her (ouch!) and then keep the pet door closed at night… You might as well just let her be a cat and endure the natural outcome. There don’t seem to be a lot of options in between, unfortunately.
Sadly, that’s the policy.
I used to get really overprotective with young (and sometimes old) cats. It just drove everybody crazy. Now I try to relax and let them do what they’re going to anyway.
I’m hoping for a safe return. How sad is my existence if I spent the majority of my working worried about someone else’s cat.
I didn’t mean to actually worry anybody. No, Zoe’s just fine.
Not… _worry_ really. Fact is, cats have some resemblance to human people. Making them stay perpetually safe inside won’t make them happy. Too bad more putatively adult humans don’t learn that lesson for _humans_.
(Nota bene: For a little cat that I’ve only “met” in blog posts, Zoe _is_ rather appealing.)
Indeed… freedom. And Zoe reminds me very much of my sister’s cat. An anarchist to the core. 🙂
I think Zoe is quick enough to avoid the scorpion strike. My dog, Voodoo, was not. Worst he had to deal with was a schnoz that swelled up so big he couldn’t see past it and that went down pretty quickly. I think he learned his lesson about that one though. LOL Still hasn’t learned that wasps are nearly as bad yet, Just waiting on the yelp from that learning experience.