So Friday morning Gary left for West Virginia for the weekend. After worked I picked up Lyla and we went to the pet store. (If you thought I meant adopt a human, you really don't know me very well!) At the pet store we met our new family member! A sweet little cat who is all grey and just wonderful. We have named her Zoe! Lyla and I bring her home and we are eating dinner and Zoe is scoping out the place.
After a little bit, I can't find her. I can't find her ANYWHERE. I had run out to my car really quick so now I'm thinking oh no... she got outside. I was just sick over it. But it was getting late and I had to get Lyla to bed. So I went to bed too thinking hopefully she is just scared and she will be out waiting for us in the morning.
Saturday morning Lyla and I get up. No Zoe. I can't figure out where in the house she could be other than outside. As soon as the sun came up I kept going outside and looking around. My mom was on her way up to help. Whenever she got there I had a thought.
There is a hole in my dining room wall that my dad cut so that he could get to the pipes to fix our leaking bathtub. We never totally covered it up. He has had to get in there a few times since so it just never seemed like a big deal. We put a piece of furniture in front of it and forgot about it. I told my mom, I bet she is in that hole.
So we move the furniture out and there she is looking up at me! I was so relieved that she wasn't outside! So mom runs down to the basement and tries to get her out from down there since I couldn't reach her through the pipes from the hole. Well she got spooked and ran down along the side of the bathtub.
I spent the next two days trying to get her out... Tried EVERYTHING. Food, leaving her alone, calling her, making a lot of noise to scare her out. Nothing worked. I started to think maybe she is stuck. Or worse, what if she dies in this hole and we have to cut another hole in a different wall to get her out?!?!?! I was super stressed out. Making me even more stressed was the fact that Gary was going to be home soon and I didn't have her out yet. Gary wasn't 100% on board with getting a pet and I had to really convince him it was a good idea. I didn't think he was going to be real happy if this pet cost him more home improvements....
Gary got home Sunday evening. He walks in the house, goes to the dining room hole. He says here kitty kitty... I'm rolling my eyes at him. This is not going to work you idiot, I have been doing that for two days! Oh but don't you know... out she comes! Gary = the cat whisperer!
So happy ending! Now we have our Zoe and we covered up the hole! She is a wonderful new addition to our little family and we all love her!
