I'm at a level of hysterics that at a point in history had women condemned to lobotomies.
This cat is my SON for all intents and purposes. I raised him from a kitten, he sleeps with me at NIGHT, I am his MOTHER and he's been missing as far as I've been aware for 5 hours-going on 6. I woke up this morning to get ready for work I couldn't find him-usually he's hiding somewhere cause he's like that and I got home less than an hour ago to find he's still been missing.
I'm just asking ya'll to keep him in your thoughts until we find him. Just....good thoughts. I don't believe in the thoughts and prayers bullshit because I believe direct immediate action is the correct response. but it's nearly 9pm at night. I've spent two hours running around the yard calling for him in hopes he responds to my voice. I have reason to fear our outside cat, Buster Jones, may have chased him off if he did get stuck outside the house. Tomorrow the second the sun is up and he's not returned, a more through search by asking neighbors and looking in their yards.
He can't have gone far. Everytime he has gotten out of the house, he has a panic attack and tries to run back in, he's an over weight orange blimp who has needed to be taken care of since day one of his life.
Just.
Think about him. Pray he's somewhere safe and warm and he can make it home tomorrow somehow.
Look at my cat, Nugget (real name Tuna Noodle Casserole Nugget Cat). He's watching a show for cats and dogs and there are birds and squirrels.
He can see it 100%. He looks behind the TV to see where these creatures are. We have to move the cat box because he is the type of cat to knock over the TV.
Mom and I took care of the nieces yesterday while my sister and BIL went out to celebrate their anniversary
We baked cookies together, and packaged them up in boxes, and decorated the boxes with stickers. One box was put aside for the girls to take home. Hubby Jon and the girls delivered the other box to a neighbor.
We watched It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! and Coco, played an invented version of hide and seek the girls made up, and visited with the kitties down at my place
Miraculously, Leon came out of hiding and said hi to the girls which has never happened before
He was so brave and the girls were so gentle and I was so proud of all of them
fostering (maybe adopting) a cat whos entire tail had to be amputated and one of his front legs is fractured so he has to hop around to get places and little dude moves exactly like a rabbit and not having a tail does not help the visual similarities
just shot nyquil over chamomile because my advisor bulk texted his grad students that there's no guidelines for him to still advise us when he's on sabbatical even though he promised he would when he left and I have no contact with the rest of my committee and no connection to my original thesis and my grad program has tried to force me out from the minute I had correspondence with them and if I don't force myself to sleep I will absolutely smash something into sawdust thinking about how fucking ass backwards getting my masters degree has been