Very bad news = we lost our cat, Tiggy
Good news = we're going to Disneyland Tuesday, instead, and will have much more time that day to spend there
Very good news = we found Tiggy
So we were all set to go to Disneyland once LeAnn got home from work at 3. But at about noon, one of the girls had gone outside to the back yard, leaving the back door open, and we noticed right after that point that Tiggy wasn't around. Yesterday, he had gone out to the back yard and was able to jump up onto a ledge and over the fence. We found him rubbing on the ground under the boat parked in the neighbor's driveway. So we were trying to be more careful about making sure that he stayed in the house when we brought him in.
But today when that happened he was nowhere to be found, and we were very worried that he had taken off a little too far and didn't know his way back, or was chased or attacked by one of the many dogs in the neighborhood, or was grabbed by somebody. We looked everywhere in the house and in the surrounding yards and it was pretty clear that he was gone. After a couple hours had passed, we reported him lost through his microchip service and made up some small flyers to hand out to the neighbors (see below). We figured (hoped) that he was camped out and having a nap under a bush in some neighbor's yard.
This whole process took us well into the time after LeAnn had come home, and we all figured with the limited time we had as it was, and with our concern for Tiggy, that Disneyland probably wasn't going to be a great idea for tonight. I shouldn't have told the girls earlier that we would be going there today (Roseann warned me not to say anything until we were there... 'cause things like this tend to happen once you've made your kids aware of the plans), but they were okay with going on Tuesday instead, especially when I explained that we could spend the whole day there instead of just a few hours.
So it was around five o' clock and we were about to print out some more flyers to get to some of the nearby houses that we had missed, when all of a sudden we heard Becca yell, "Tiggy!" We ran into the other room and there he was, stretching out after having had a nice long and relaxing nap behind the couch. I had even looked there at one point, but he must have been in a position where I didn't see him from where I was looking. He was so nonchalant, as if nothing had ever happened. Well, he's pretty nonchalant, regardless, but still... We were very happy to see him, of course, but I also felt kind of upset with him, as in, how could you put us through all that worry?? His answer to that being, what are you talking about?! I was having a nap! I was perfectly safe the whole time! I had to admit that he had me there...
This experience gave us the chance to reinforce to the girls our training for always being aware of where we are and what our boundaries are. They know that very well, but Tiggy doesn't always follow the rules, so we have to be extra careful to keep an eye on where he is, which isn't always easy when he's crashed out behind a couch.
The girls all went out to buy some shoes and I stayed behind to plug some upcoming addresses into our new GPS unit. We'll never get lost again, right??
We put the girls to bed and then played a game of Sequence with LeAnn and Danny while watching Sweeney Todd. It is one of my favorite musicals, as dark as it is, but they did kind of gore it up a bit for the film version. We needed a Scrubs follow up after that before going to bed. While we were watching the movie, our never-really-lost-but-found cat, Tiggy, enjoyed himself thoroughly by playing a game of "bat at the fishtank".Our flyer for Tiggy... (He doesn't really need meds, but Roseann says that's a good way to make sure he will get turned in if somebody found him thinking, "ooh, free cat!" and wanted to keep him, because meds are not free.)
The girls in the car on the way to buy shoes. They'd probably rather be at Disneyland...
Tiggy playing "bat at the fishtank"...
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