The Escape

The other day we had a little scare with Cherry. I'm going to start this off by explaining how I can always know when she's missing. She normally will come and find me every hour or so for some petting and she ALWAYS greets me when I get home. Sometimes it's in the living room and other times it's at the top of the stairs. It is very strange when you can't find her even while calling her name or crinkling a toy.

Anyway, on Tuesday I hadn't seen Cherry for a little while, but I figured she was just sleeping because it was so hot out. I had to leave for an appointment, so I didn't get to look for her. When I got home I still couldn't find her. I decided to check the cellar because she likes to follow my dad down there and he'll accidentally shut her down there. I opened the door expecting to see her spider web covered face looking at me, but she wasn't down there. Ok, there's two other rooms to search down there. And of course, the garage door leading outside is wide open. I still couldn't find her. At this point I was really panicking. I hadn't seen her for two hours and we had just had a huge thunderstorm roll through. Who knows where she could have run off to.

My brother and I spent a while wandering around the yard looking for her. After a while he went inside for dinner, but I refused to eat until I found Cherry. I was in tears looking for her. We live in the middle of the woods and there are lots of coyotes and foxes around. I was so afraid that she had been spooked by the storm and ran off into the woods.

Finally, after an hour of searching, I walked out of the garage and glanced up at the back deck to see her relaxing behind some boards. I called her name and she mewed at me. I ran over and practically had to drag her out from under the boards.

I still have no idea how she got out. She either got out through the back door(sometimes it opens in the wind) or out through the garage. I'm thinking it was out the back door because now she comes running when it's open. I also have no idea where she could have gone. She seemed pretty freaked out when I was carrying her inside, so I don't think she explored too much.

I'm just glad she was alright. She definitely gave me a huge scare.