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- From: thiessen@emr1.emr.ca (Tracy Thiessen)
- Subject: Re: When the Cat is Lost...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.135213.15847@emr1.emr.ca>
- Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
- References: <1992Dec31.031824.2400@news.eng.convex.com> <1htq56INNak5@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:52:13 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1htq56INNak5@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.031824.2400@news.eng.convex.com> oexmann@convex.com (Carla Oexmann) writes:
- >>What would you do when your cat is lost ? Two weeks ago, we let the
- >>Q out into the back yard, which is, or so I thought, cat proof. She
- >>hasn't returned....
- >>
- >>What we've done so far :
- >>1 : Made up flyers with her picture, description, and reward offer,
- >> which we then rubberbanded to the front door of the houses in the
- >> neighborhood.
- >>2 : Ad in the paper
- >>3 : Regular checks of the animal shelter
- >>4 : Register with Pet-Track
- >>
- >>Any other ideas ?
- >
- >Only that you shuold post flyers on telephone poles, etc., in
- >addition to leaving them on doors. Do this at least 1/4 to
- >1/3 mile radius around where the cat disappeared.
- >
-
- Some time ago, I was wandering home and happened upon
- a beautiful, very lonely and very friendly pussy cat.
- I talked to it a bit, and lo, it followed me home, darting
- right through the door and straight into the kitchen (kitty
- food seeking radar). Gave it a bit of tuna, and remembered
- some lost kitty signs posted on nearby telephones. Sent
- husband out to see if cat (by now crashed out under the
- coffee table, had decided to move in) matched description.
- Did. Called number. Deleriously happy owner.
-
- But it had turned out that the cat was easily two *city*
- miles from home. My advice? Post far and wide, particularly
- in kitty friendly neighbourhoods, where someone might be
- inclined to feed him. And good luck....
-
- Tracy
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