-=> In a Subspace Msg From Janis Kracht to All <=-   
      
    JK> I think our yellow longhair male cat (who looks exactly like   
    JK> full-breed Maine Coon Cat) has decided to move on to another home, was   
    JK> swiped by strangers or 'gotten' by coyotes.   
      
    JK> It's sickening to me that he's stayed away this long so I figure the   
    JK> worst has happened to him.. it's been at least a month now since he's   
    JK> come home.    
      
   Really sorry to hear that Janis.. I hope somehow, someway he is with   
   someone else and is being cared for. And hopefully can and will return   
   back home. I may be a wuss when it comes to this, but having pets get   
   out of a fenced in yard and wander off has at times driven me crazy.   
   Almost like a kid running away. It can be nervewracking. One of my pugs,   
   got out a month ago. Sees a rabbit and no fence stops him. He somehow   
   finds away. His brother pulled a lassie and kept running back and forth   
   to the door until I caught on. I thought I had the fence pretty much   
   plugged of any crack or hole he could get through, but he still got out   
   somehow. Glad LoCi alerted me, as I found him just a couple yards over,   
   but I have no doubt that if He hadn't, Simon would have been hit by a car   
   or someone would have picked him up and taken him home. But the worry is   
   not a fun thing to go through at all. I swear my heart rate went to 180   
   with no exercise at all, just walking around looking and worrying got   
   the adrenaline flowing. But I think I told You before. I was actually   
   lucky, another time someone did pick him up and take him. In the   
   neighborhood and I saw her walking him and she hollered at me for   
   letting him run around. ( which I did not, he got out, was not let out )   
   I was so glad to see him, I just let her yell and get it off her chest   
   and took him home. Hopefully the cat was picked up too, and is waiting   
   for his chance to get out and come back home. And I know that is not much   
   consolation.. It is a helpless feeling.   Keep us posted..   
      
      
   Have a good One!   
   Mike   
      
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