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Posted by Leslie& The Furbabies in MO. on September 29, 2009, 7:55 pm
I didn't want to tell my scary kitty story until Cheeto was found and safe.
Years ago I had a gorgeous big long-haired sweetheart of a black cat who
lived outdoors in our garage and barns due to my allergies. One day he came
up missing. I found him when an empty 50 lb. horse feed sack moved. He had
been playing with a dangling lure on a fishing pole and got the
treble-hooked fishing lure (with three wicked three-pointed barbed hooks!)
buried in his belly and then in his four legs/feet as he battled the lure to
get it loose from his belly. And then he managed to drag himself into the
empty feed sack. I guess he felt safer in there while he was hurt??? It
was the most frightening thing to see the poor guy all hooked into a
contortion. The vet quickly put him to rights with some anesthesia and a
few minor snips of skin here and there. And we hide the fishing poles
behind closed doors as soon as we got home!
Soooo glad Cheeto had a happy ending to his Lost Story.
Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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> I found him and he's a freakin' Houdini cat! I just KNEW that as soon
> as I posted, I would find the little stinker!!!!!
> So -- I was talking to one of my friends here who has seen my sewing
> room and she was convinced that he had managed to get stuck behind
> something in there. There are boxes and bags of needlework and sewing
> stash along all the walls and stuffed into every nook & cranny so there
> are a ton of places for a kitten to investigate and get stuck in.
> Now, DH and I checked out the sewing room several times and he even
> looked behind the furniture with a flash light! I went in to search
> everywhere again and started on the wall with the doorway and book shelves
> from top to bottom. Below the bookshelves, all open space is filled with
> stash. I moved everything and there was no Cheeto. The next wall has the
> window and under the window (pushed as close to the window as possible but
> not touching the molding) is a low chest of drawers. It is not quite to
> my waist and the sides and front are solid to the floor but the back has
> about a 4" gap. My sewing table is right in front of the chest and close
> enough that I can't open the drawers.
> My little cordless hands free phone sits on that dresser and I noticed
> that it was not on. I get down on my hands & knees (never a fun thing to
> do with my arthritis in the knees) crawl under the sewing table to get to
> the plugs, etc. I'm right next to the little chest of drawers and
> suddenly I hear a scritching sort of noise from UNDER the chest and
> suddenly Cheeto's little head pops out like some sort of demented
> Jack-in-the-Box and he gives me a HUGE yawn!!! He jumps over everything
> and has a nice stretch in the middle of the sewing room floor and off he
> goes!!!!! He had to have slithered his way behind the chest (there's
> about 3" of space at the most and then squirreled his way under the back
> of the chest and fallen asleep there. DH looked but only behind the
> chest, not under it!
> The little brat cat acted like he was afraid of me and ran off and hid
> under the slipper bench in my bedroom. I went downstairs and he zipped
> right past me and went out to the screen room. Then I told him he had
> food, showed him the bowl and he came running and let me love on him. So
> he's reappeared -- LOL -- and I'm quite relieved. I knew he was here
> somewhere but was afraid he might have gotten hurt or something. VBS, I'm
> afraid this is likely not the last time he finds somewhere to sneak into.
> Hopefully, next time it won't be at food time and I won't get scared and
> afraid he's managed to hurt himself. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
> --
> PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
> Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
> their whiskers!
> Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
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Posted by onetexsun on September 30, 2009, 3:28 am
When I first brought my Weedy cat home, he was so tiny that I had to
feed him with an eye dropper. I knew my Lhasa Apso (Tashi) was good
with kitties, but he was soooo tiny. I got a huge box, probably close
to 4 feet tall, and put my tiny little kitty in a nice, soft snuggly
bed in one corner with his water dish in another corner and the
littler box in still another corner. I figured he'd be safe and sound
while I was at work. Hah. I came home, went straight to the box, and
Weedy was gone. Four inches of kitten managed to get out of that huge
box. So the hunt began, and all I could think was that Tashi must have
eaten him or torn him to shreds and hidden his mangled little body. I
was sobbing while I looked. Nowhere. He was gone. I called my then
boyfriend (somehow he still married me, even after all this) and he
came over and looked. No kitty. I was still crying. All night, no
kitty and I was just beside myself. But I got up and dressed for work
the next morning and while I was drinking my coffee, I heard the
tiniest little 'meow' and followed it into the bedroom. He was under
the dresser. There was maybe an inch high notch out of the bottom of
the dresser and Weedy had crawled under there. I called Russ and he
came over and lifted the dresser while I grabbed Weedy. I cleaned him
up and fed him till his little tummy was all full and .... what could
I do? I put him back in the box and covered the top with a bed sheet.
Of course, when I came home, he was right back under the dresser.
Through all this Tashi had been so patient and so good and finally, I
just sat on the floor and put Weedy in front of her. She nosed him and
licked him and picked him up by the scruff of his little neck and
carried him to her bed. I had to go to work, but decided that it just
couldn't get any worse. When I came home, Tashi came running to meet
me, like always. And there behind her came Weedy, running to the door.
Oh boy. What a relief. So the big box went away and the littler box
went in the bathroom and Weedy became Tashi's puppy. It worked. I
still don't know how, but it did. LOL.
Good luck and take some photos. I want to see Cheeto.
Sunny
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Posted by Sandy on September 30, 2009, 4:49 pm
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> I found him and he's a freakin' Houdini cat! I just KNEW that as
> soon as I posted, I would find the little stinker!!!!!
> So -- I was talking to one of my friends here who has seen my sewing
> room and she was convinced that he had managed to get stuck behind
> something in there. There are boxes and bags of needlework and sewing
> stash along all the walls and stuffed into every nook & cranny so there
> are a ton of places for a kitten to investigate and get stuck in.
> Now, DH and I checked out the sewing room several times and he even
> looked behind the furniture with a flash light! I went in to search
> everywhere again and started on the wall with the doorway and book
> shelves from top to bottom. Below the bookshelves, all open space is
> filled with stash. I moved everything and there was no Cheeto. The
> next wall has the window and under the window (pushed as close to the
> window as possible but not touching the molding) is a low chest of
> drawers. It is not quite to my waist and the sides and front are solid
> to the floor but the back has about a 4" gap. My sewing table is right
> in front of the chest and close enough that I can't open the drawers.
> My little cordless hands free phone sits on that dresser and I
> noticed that it was not on. I get down on my hands & knees (never a fun
> thing to do with my arthritis in the knees) crawl under the sewing table
> to get to the plugs, etc. I'm right next to the little chest of drawers
> and suddenly I hear a scritching sort of noise from UNDER the chest and
> suddenly Cheeto's little head pops out like some sort of demented
> Jack-in-the-Box and he gives me a HUGE yawn!!! He jumps over everything
> and has a nice stretch in the middle of the sewing room floor and off he
> goes!!!!! He had to have slithered his way behind the chest (there's
> about 3" of space at the most and then squirreled his way under the back
> of the chest and fallen asleep there. DH looked but only behind the
> chest, not under it!
> The little brat cat acted like he was afraid of me and ran off and
> hid under the slipper bench in my bedroom. I went downstairs and he
> zipped right past me and went out to the screen room. Then I told him
> he had food, showed him the bowl and he came running and let me love on
> him. So he's reappeared -- LOL -- and I'm quite relieved. I knew he
> was here somewhere but was afraid he might have gotten hurt or
> something. VBS, I'm afraid this is likely not the last time he finds
> somewhere to sneak into. Hopefully, next time it won't be at food time
> and I won't get scared and afraid he's managed to hurt himself.
> CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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Gosh, I should have read this before posting my other message. <G> Mary,
I'm *so* glad Cheeto showed up unharmed! Whew!
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious)
http://www.sandymike.net
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Posted by Tia Mary on September 30, 2009, 10:06 pm
Sandy wrote:
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> Gosh, I should have read this before posting my other message. <G> Mary,
> I'm *so* glad Cheeto showed up unharmed! Whew!
>
I have to tell you all that he is as changed "man" since the surgery.
One of our gentlemen members mentioned that it could take several days
for the hormones to work their way out of Cheeto's system. I think it
only took several hours!!
After he finally came out of hiding, he joined me in the computer
room and proceeded to again crawl into my lap, started to purr, circled
his wagons, lay down and went back to sleep!!! This was a first --
something he had never done before joining The Clippers Club! He was
always a sweetie and let you pick him up and hold him for a bit but
wasn't one for sitting on your lap or snuggling except at night in bed
(JUST LIKE A MAN -- LOL). Now he wants to have a bit of a snooze in my
lap whenever I am at the 'puter AND when I am in my chair in front of
the telly trying to do some needlework :-).
He is going to be a great kitten for the SMDGD. Young and feisty
enough to live with a First Grader and a 5 year old dog sister yet sweet
and loving enough to live with a First Grader AND her mommy :-).
Needless to say, I am quite glad that he came out of hiding and wasn't
stuck somewhere or hurt. I will also be quite glad when he goes to his
new home and I will be done with this whole "raising another cat child"
thing. DH, OTOH, is liable to really miss the little one. He's not
here all day having to deal with all the kitten crap this little guy
tries to get away with. But then, DH is the one with the large mole on
his upper left chest that Cheeto thinks is a nipple and nurses on each
night with the requisite loud purring, nuzzling to get the "nipple" in
his mouth just right and then exposing his little claws to "snurf" in an
effort to squeeze out the nonexistent mother's milk -- LOLOLOL!
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CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
their whiskers!
Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
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Posted by Michelle C. on September 30, 2009, 10:10 pm
Sandy wrote:
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>> I found him and he's a freakin' Houdini cat! I just KNEW that as
>> soon as I posted, I would find the little stinker!!!!!
>> So -- I was talking to one of my friends here who has seen my sewing
>> room and she was convinced that he had managed to get stuck behind
>> something in there. There are boxes and bags of needlework and sewing
>> stash along all the walls and stuffed into every nook & cranny so there
>> are a ton of places for a kitten to investigate and get stuck in.
>> Now, DH and I checked out the sewing room several times and he even
>> looked behind the furniture with a flash light! I went in to search
>> everywhere again and started on the wall with the doorway and book
>> shelves from top to bottom. Below the bookshelves, all open space is
>> filled with stash. I moved everything and there was no Cheeto. The
>> next wall has the window and under the window (pushed as close to the
>> window as possible but not touching the molding) is a low chest of
>> drawers. It is not quite to my waist and the sides and front are solid
>> to the floor but the back has about a 4" gap. My sewing table is right
>> in front of the chest and close enough that I can't open the drawers.
>> My little cordless hands free phone sits on that dresser and I
>> noticed that it was not on. I get down on my hands & knees (never a fun
>> thing to do with my arthritis in the knees) crawl under the sewing table
>> to get to the plugs, etc. I'm right next to the little chest of drawers
>> and suddenly I hear a scritching sort of noise from UNDER the chest and
>> suddenly Cheeto's little head pops out like some sort of demented
>> Jack-in-the-Box and he gives me a HUGE yawn!!! He jumps over everything
>> and has a nice stretch in the middle of the sewing room floor and off he
>> goes!!!!! He had to have slithered his way behind the chest (there's
>> about 3" of space at the most and then squirreled his way under the back
>> of the chest and fallen asleep there. DH looked but only behind the
>> chest, not under it!
>> The little brat cat acted like he was afraid of me and ran off and
>> hid under the slipper bench in my bedroom. I went downstairs and he
>> zipped right past me and went out to the screen room. Then I told him
>> he had food, showed him the bowl and he came running and let me love on
>> him. So he's reappeared -- LOL -- and I'm quite relieved. I knew he
>> was here somewhere but was afraid he might have gotten hurt or
>> something. VBS, I'm afraid this is likely not the last time he finds
>> somewhere to sneak into. Hopefully, next time it won't be at food time
>> and I won't get scared and afraid he's managed to hurt himself.
>> CiaoMeow >^;;^<
>
>
> Gosh, I should have read this before posting my other message. <G> Mary,
> I'm *so* glad Cheeto showed up unharmed! Whew!
>
Sandy, I did the same thing. :-) But being a cat person myself, I knew
how worried Mary was and wanted to send her "good stuff" for finding
Cheeto ASAP!
Best regards,
Michelle in Nevada
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> as I posted, I would find the little stinker!!!!!
> So -- I was talking to one of my friends here who has seen my sewing
> room and she was convinced that he had managed to get stuck behind
> something in there. There are boxes and bags of needlework and sewing
> stash along all the walls and stuffed into every nook & cranny so there
> are a ton of places for a kitten to investigate and get stuck in.
> Now, DH and I checked out the sewing room several times and he even
> looked behind the furniture with a flash light! I went in to search
> everywhere again and started on the wall with the doorway and book shelves
> from top to bottom. Below the bookshelves, all open space is filled with
> stash. I moved everything and there was no Cheeto. The next wall has the
> window and under the window (pushed as close to the window as possible but
> not touching the molding) is a low chest of drawers. It is not quite to
> my waist and the sides and front are solid to the floor but the back has
> about a 4" gap. My sewing table is right in front of the chest and close
> enough that I can't open the drawers.
> My little cordless hands free phone sits on that dresser and I noticed
> that it was not on. I get down on my hands & knees (never a fun thing to
> do with my arthritis in the knees) crawl under the sewing table to get to
> the plugs, etc. I'm right next to the little chest of drawers and
> suddenly I hear a scritching sort of noise from UNDER the chest and
> suddenly Cheeto's little head pops out like some sort of demented
> Jack-in-the-Box and he gives me a HUGE yawn!!! He jumps over everything
> and has a nice stretch in the middle of the sewing room floor and off he
> goes!!!!! He had to have slithered his way behind the chest (there's
> about 3" of space at the most and then squirreled his way under the back
> of the chest and fallen asleep there. DH looked but only behind the
> chest, not under it!
> The little brat cat acted like he was afraid of me and ran off and hid
> under the slipper bench in my bedroom. I went downstairs and he zipped
> right past me and went out to the screen room. Then I told him he had
> food, showed him the bowl and he came running and let me love on him. So
> he's reappeared -- LOL -- and I'm quite relieved. I knew he was here
> somewhere but was afraid he might have gotten hurt or something. VBS, I'm
> afraid this is likely not the last time he finds somewhere to sneak into.
> Hopefully, next time it won't be at food time and I won't get scared and
> afraid he's managed to hurt himself. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
> --
> PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
> Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
> their whiskers!
> Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary