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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: mail.app problem
Date: 25 Dec 2014 18:27:46 GMT
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On 2014-12-25, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> In article <cg2tvvFl06cU1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> One cat, one of the biggest Himalayan mixes I've ever seen,
>> from my childhood, was an outdoor cat who would disappear for a week or
>> two at a time normally. One day he stopped showing up at home. Then
>> something like 5 weeks later he appeared with ragged paws at the school
>> my dad ran at the time! That was a wonderful reunion! No idea how he
>> found us there, as he had never been there before to our knowledge. 
>
> This is the third time that Smudge managed to sneak out.  The first
> time, he came sauntering to the front door a few hours later.  I think
> he was waiting for me to open the door because as soon as I did, there
> he was.
>
> The second time, he was found a week later, eight miles away.  A
> highway patrolman stopped to help a the driver of a disabled car on the
> freeway, and the driver told the patrolman there was a cat in bushes
> off the shoulder.  He saw that the cat was slightly injured, so he took
> him to a nearby 24-hour animal hospital, who turned him over to the
> county shelter.  The shelter checks Craig's list daily, and saw my post
> about the missing cat, and recognized the photo.  They then contacted
> me.

Wow, lucky!! I think these days I'd have mine chipped just in case.

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