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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

1538.0. "Pretty Boy I'm Sorry :^(" by TPVAX3::ROBBINS () Mon Jul 11 1988 13:39

    
    
        For the past 15 minutes I've been looking for the official lost
    and found note and can't seem to find it....  Well it is Monday.
    
    Looking for Pretty Boy.  He was the stray that came to us and we
    "thought" we had found him a good home.  However he has taken off
    and hasn't been seen and that is very unlike him.  Would be lost
    in the vicinity of Hudson, N.H. on Sunland Drive.  The street is
    close to the old Garrison Farms and also close to Litchfield, N.H.
    
    
    Pretty Boy is a large white cat with orange markings.  He is a neutered
    male.  Has a red collar with bells on it.  Is affectionatte with
    me but believe he would be very independent and skittish with
    strangers.  New owner does not seem to be concerned at all about
    his disappearance even though I've stressed that it is unlike him.
    So...  IF I find him I will take him back and work on my mother-in-law
    to keep him.  
    
    All I pray is that he isn't trying to trek his way back to us. 
    If so he's got a rough trip ahead.  Please let me know if you even
    think you have spotted him.  If you give him food he'll stick around
    (I hope).  Thanks.
    
    Kim
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1538.1just in case #'sTPVAX3::ROBBINSMon Jul 11 1988 15:538
    
    
    An afterthought just in case....
    
                  My work number is 261-3074.
                     home number is (603)881-5232 -after 4:00.
    
    Kim
1538.2Keep a lookoutMTADMS::ALANDRYTue Jul 12 1988 16:178
    Chances are he is trecking back to you.  I know too many cats who
    have done this.  I once had a cat that travelled 32 miles back home.
    He made it in one piece, alittle hungry.
    
    Good luck - keep a good watch out for him.
    
    Anna/zildjian/spunky
    
1538.3SKETCH::BASSETTDesignMon Jul 18 1988 17:249
    I agree.  I will bet that he is on his way home to you.  This happened
    to us before.  We had 2 males and they kept fighting so we had to
    find a home...a good home, believe me...and Bambi found his way
    all the back to us, about 12 miles.  This way about 11 - 12 years
    ago.
    
    Keep a look out!
    
    Linda
1538.4Any news..TIGEMS::STUDLEYWed Jul 20 1988 16:276
    Kim,
    
    Any news on Pretty Boy yet?
    
    Janet
    
1538.5UPDATETPVAX3::ROBBINSWed Jul 20 1988 18:1235
    
    
    Well I was hoping that when I up-dated this note that it would be
    good news.....  Nothing yet.  We went down looking last week and
    did find a man that had seen Pretty Boy (thank God I took pictures!)
    coming to chow out from the bowl he fills in the back for the coons.
    He told us if he saw him again he would see if he could get him
    in the house and call us.  I left with a good feeling =no phone
    call.  Three days later went for another scout.  Talked to alot
    of people most hadn't seen him.  One lady said that he had been
    at her door on Friday night and he was trying to come into her house.
    She was gone for the whole week-end (this was Sunday evening) so
    she didn't know if he had been around but she had left food out.
    Took down our number and also told us that for some reason all the
    cats in the neighborhood seemed to frequent her yard.  That made
    me feel really good and I thought for sure we had hit the nail on
    the head.  Well no phone call yet.  He is not acting the way he
    did with us at all.  When he came to us he immediately claimed us.
    Even though I wouldn't let him in the house he lived in the yard
    and the deck 24 hrs around the clock.  Now everytime we find some
    place where he has been he doesn't seem to hang around.  It makes
    me feel even worse that possibly I could have killed any trust he
    has for any human.  I'm still determined I will find him.  Today
    I took out an ad in the Nashua Telegraph for a week.  I've already
    called Hudson Pound, Nashua Humane, Countryside Vets, Hudson Animal
    Hospital, and the Litchfield Animal Controller.  George at Litchfield
    was really sweet but he also let me know that in the area between
    Hudson and Litchfield there are wild dogs.  Yup Pretty Boy is VERY
    close to this area.  I guess that's what makes it worse.  So that's
    the scoop for now.  All that's left is to keep going down there
    maybe make some flyers to put in people's mailbox (I wonder if I
    can legally do that?) and post something at area stores.  Well that
    was good therapy for me........  
    
    Thanks for asking..........
1538.6CIRCUS::KOLLINGKaren, Sweetie, & Holly; in Calif.Wed Jul 20 1988 18:1810
    Re: flyers in mailboxes
    
    The post office goes into a snit when anything besides U.S. mail
    is put in a mail box.  If a letter carrier is feeling nasty, he
    can discard it.  You can, however, leave flyers held down by floor
    mats, inside handles of door latches, wedged in between the door
    and the door framew, etc.  also if the "mailbox" is not actually
    a mailbox but rather a slot so stuff just falls inside the house,
    you can put a flyer thru that.
    
1538.7INDEBT::TAUBENFELDThu Jul 21 1988 14:5713
    >Now everytime we find some
    >place where he has been he doesn't seem to hang around.  It makes
    >me feel even worse that possibly I could have killed any trust he
    >has for any human. 
     
    I would think the reason he hasn't latched on to anyone else is
    because he knows he belongs to you and doesn't want to be with anyone
    else.  Rather than having lost his trust in humans, he has all his trust
    in you.  If I were you, I'd be very flattered. :-)
    
    Good luck!
    
    
1538.8SSMP20::DALEYWed Aug 03 1988 21:012
    anymore news on this little guy???
    
1538.9still searchingTPVAX3::ROBBINSThu Aug 04 1988 11:1214
    
    No news at all....  sigh....  I don't understand how he could just
    disappear like this.  We'll go back over there this week-end with
    little papers I made up and stick them in everyone's door or talk
    to them if I can.  The ad is still in the paper (2 weeks now at
    $21 a whack!!!) and NO phone calls.  I don't know but I better find
    him soon because I don't think I can take this wondering where he
    is, how he is, if he's alive or not, how he's making out on these
    hot humid days....  I have to find him for my own peace of my mind
    and I will sooner or later.  It's just starting to get discouraging
    and looks hopeless....  Ah well who knows maybe this week-end :^)
    Thanks for asking....
    
                                                        Kim