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June 11, 2008
Kitty is MIA
Kitty went outside Monday night and failed to come back inside the house. I went out and brought her back in several times, but she always liked to be outside at night and I wasn't in a position to stop her. She'd just run back out the cat door when I brought her in. I could lock the cat door, but I didn't want to do that so I just let her go out. She was out in the grass pouncing on insects in the dark when I saw her last.
But she never came back inside Monday night, which is unusual. When I woke up yesterday morning, I looked around the yard for her on the dirt bike and the four wheeler. I kept hoping I'd open the door and whistle and she'd come running in the door and head for her food bowl.
Finally, she came back last night. I heard her out on the deck scratching around. And I got up to let her in, but when I went out on the deck, there was nothing but loud noises emanating from the woods behind my house. It was only a dream that the cat came back. Standing on the deck, I realized it had only been a dream. She was gone. Still gone.
I wanted to kill what was moving through the woods. To kill what had killed my cat. I turned on a 2 million candle power spotlight, hoping to shoot a fox and save my cat. Or someone else's cat. But all that I found was a bunch of hollow eyes staring back at me. Enormous beasts with glowing eyes staring at me. Prepared to meet their maker.
A herd of elk was moving though, inexplicably. Trampling my woods. These were not the bad guys. Slaughtering a herd of elk would not bring back kitty.
My only guess is that a predator got her. Probably a fox, a coyote, or a lion. Hard to know for sure.
This is the last photo I took of her. Bye bye kitty. R.I.P.
Posted by Rob Kiser on June 11, 2008 at 9:51 AM
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