Lessons in Motherhood

This is the blog that I’ve been dreading writing for almost a week now. I’ve tried to start it several times, but I just couldn’t figure out how to get the words out. Well, that and I thought that this whole episode would end happily and you, my dedicated blog readers, would not be the wiser. Anyway, it’s time to fell up so I’ll just tell you plain and simple…

We lost our cat, Anubis.

There I said it. We lost him. He didn’t die. Nope. We lost him. When we went to Buffalo two Saturdays ago, we think that he must have snuck out of the house before we left. Then, we left for the airport and didn’t realize he was missing until we came back on Tuesday. Ugh. Go ahead. Judge me. I’m a terrible pet owner. I left my declawed cat outside by himself for four days. It’s horrible. It’s terrible, and what’s worse, we haven’t found him. We’ve tried. Trust me. We’ve walked around with flashlights, called for him all across the neighborhood, hung signs, sent emails, even posted info on a neighborhood Facebook page. We have tried, but he is gone.

Then, a woman that lives in the neighborhood offered to let us use her “humane” trap to try to catch him. She has a lot of experience trapping her own cat who gets spooked and runs away. I resisted the offer for a long time because what if I trap a skunk or possum or some alien creature? That would be my luck.

Anyway, I gave in tonight and decided to try the trap. Then, as I was walking in the neighborhood, I ran into a different neighbor who told me that she heard a cat meowing really loud at 2am. Now, if you’ve ever stayed over at my house, you know that Anubis is about the loudest animal on the planet in the early morning hours. He’s obnoxious. It had to be him. So, I just walked over to this woman’s house where there are woods and placed the trap with some nasty smelling mackerel in it.

I will let you know who or what I trap tomorrow, but wish me luck. I think that this might be on the top 10 strangest things I’ve ever done list right along with canyoning (thanks, Nikki), flying to Germany by myself, giving birth to two children naturally, etc.