Tina
23-11-2008, 12:42 AM
What a scary experience, I thought we'd lost her!
Miw was out on her harness and long lead tied to the washing line out back to get her fresh air. She's been doing this for years and can be completely trusted to be out on her own with us checking on her every couple minutes, there are no roads or other cats or any animals around (except the occasional hedgehog and cows in the field behind us) so she's quite safe. There have been a few times when she has gone too far into the edge of the hedge and got her lead caught on a branch and managed to slip out of it........but she has always in the past come straight to the back door and knocked (yes, she knocks on the door LOL!) to let us know.
This evening, I went to make the 3 minute check on her, to find her GONE!!!!!!!!! :shock: And she hadn't come to let us know she got off the lead! We were terrified, we knew she couldn't have gotten far as it was only a few minutes since the last check.....but it was dark and cold out and we worried she may have gone "cow-chasing" in the field! We raced around outside the back of the house, calling and looking under hedges and OH looking around the edge of the field........yep, we panicked LOL!
And then I rounded the corner of the house to go towards the front garden, and who should be standing there at the front corner of the house, looking at me like I'd gone MAD, wondering what all the fuss was about! :o
She walked past me, calm as you please.........I swear she was rolling her eyes and shaking her head in disdain at our reaction.......and walked over to sit at the back door and wait for us to let her in. LOL! :roll:
So, for punishment for scaring us, I gave her a little telling off and told her she was clever and beautiful, and OH gave her hugs and kisses and cuddles and FISH! I somehow don't think she feels very punished and may not have learned the lesson we want her to have learned! :oops:
Just thought I'd share that......it's all quite funny now that the crisis is over LOL!
Miw was out on her harness and long lead tied to the washing line out back to get her fresh air. She's been doing this for years and can be completely trusted to be out on her own with us checking on her every couple minutes, there are no roads or other cats or any animals around (except the occasional hedgehog and cows in the field behind us) so she's quite safe. There have been a few times when she has gone too far into the edge of the hedge and got her lead caught on a branch and managed to slip out of it........but she has always in the past come straight to the back door and knocked (yes, she knocks on the door LOL!) to let us know.
This evening, I went to make the 3 minute check on her, to find her GONE!!!!!!!!! :shock: And she hadn't come to let us know she got off the lead! We were terrified, we knew she couldn't have gotten far as it was only a few minutes since the last check.....but it was dark and cold out and we worried she may have gone "cow-chasing" in the field! We raced around outside the back of the house, calling and looking under hedges and OH looking around the edge of the field........yep, we panicked LOL!
And then I rounded the corner of the house to go towards the front garden, and who should be standing there at the front corner of the house, looking at me like I'd gone MAD, wondering what all the fuss was about! :o
She walked past me, calm as you please.........I swear she was rolling her eyes and shaking her head in disdain at our reaction.......and walked over to sit at the back door and wait for us to let her in. LOL! :roll:
So, for punishment for scaring us, I gave her a little telling off and told her she was clever and beautiful, and OH gave her hugs and kisses and cuddles and FISH! I somehow don't think she feels very punished and may not have learned the lesson we want her to have learned! :oops:
Just thought I'd share that......it's all quite funny now that the crisis is over LOL!