Late afternoon a faint twinge of discomfit was felt. So I had a cursory look around the place and then dismissed my concern. They'll emerge at tea time. Teatime came and went and the babies were still absent. Soon it would be dusk, and then dark. Daisy was by this time prowling around, more angry than fretful, searching for the recalcitrant two.
So began the search. Screeds of stuff was hauled out from under beds, the back of the piano was investigated, cupboards emptied, stacks of paintings moved, the fridge searched, toilet cisterns checked, dishwasher checked, beds uncovered, and so on. Then the torches came out. Shone under the house, under the deck, through the thickets of undergrowth, with Daisy in train wherever we went. Of course, all the time calling out the names that seem ever sillier. (Now I know where Robert got the name JefFREEEEE......)
Back inside for the commencement of a second going over and suddenly, there's Jeffrey in the hallway, flicking his wee tail in disdain it would seem. Soon after Palangi appears out of nowhere. Of course in our relief we didn't do a post mortem and spend ages trying to figure out from whenst they had magically arrived.
Until this morning. Breakfast disposed of, again, they disappear. Now last night we noticed their miraculous manifestation occurred in the vicinity of the study. So we figured that the computers and necessary tangles of wires were providing a hidey hole. So we pursued that line of enquiry, to no avail. Then I said, "Could they be in ---," but David assured me they could not. The back is solid. Which is true.
The back is solid. But the drawers do not extend to the back or the floor.....
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Yep! Many years ago when my cat had kittens they too went missing. Looked for them every where. Found them in the (shut) draws of my tallboy. Somehow they had got in through the back even though it was against the wall and there was only one draw with a 'bit' missing.
for wee kittens,everywhere is a playground and every day is hide and go seek time :)
LOL Once I put a wild rescued cat in the 'spare' bathroom to keep her out of the way. I am still teased about my frantic demands about who let her out when she completely vanished. There was nowhere she could have gone - all that was in there was a built in bath, a pedestal basin and a toilet. Well I had that wrong... She had found a tiny gap in the pedestal basin base and squeezed in there.
Lindsay - we lost an 8kg Maine Coon once in a room with virtually no furniture. Same thing - he got round the back ans somehow curled himself up under a stereo cabinet that had a gap no higher than 4". They are good at hiding.
If I had a cat I would want a Maine Coon!
Os - we were first to breed Maine Coons in NZ. We stopped two years ago. It is like having babies all the time. Life revolved around shit and feeding. Not necessarily in that order.
We have six MC's now - all ex-breeding cats and a few kittens we had kept over the years.
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