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guzbug

12/02/05 6:40 PM

#441580 RE: tlc #441579

tail? tale? sorry....eavesdropping.
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Newly2b

12/03/05 12:35 AM

#441596 RE: tlc #441579

Cats are amazing. I have always heard stories of lost cats travelling hundreds of miles through unknown territory to get back home. When I lived for a time in a small village on a small island in Greece, I adopted an abandoned kitten (or rather, she adopted me!). When she was about 6 months old, I went to Athens for a few days, and left her at the home of a friend who lived out in the farmland surrounding the village, about two miles away from my home.

Some months later, I began introducing this cat to outdoor life instead of keeping her always in the house. About the third day of letting her outside during the day, she didn't come home at bedtime, so I went to bed and locked her out to teach her a lesson. The next day she still wasn't home. The third day I looked all over the village for her. The morning of the fourth day my friend who had catsat her for me came and told me my cat was at her house. I thought she was kidding, but we went to her house and there was my cat. I couldn't believe this cat, who had never really been let outside until the last few days, finding herself unable to get back inside my house, had apparently decided to make her way all across the village and fields to the home of the only other person she knew, and it took her 4 days to do it. I have no idea how she was able to do that since we had driven to the friend's house when I had taken her there before, and drove her back home when I picked her up.

I brought that cat back to America with me when I left Greece, and later found her a good home in N.J. She was a beautiful calico, with a blaze of orange fur running from the middle of her nose across half her face (the other half was black). Now I know all those stories about lost cats finding their way home over great distances are probably true.

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