I am Pleased to Announce:

[in_the_blue]

Our wayfaring cat has been returned to us, safe and sound.

Just yesterday I was having the hardest time grasping that Cap'n Jack might be gone. I've expected to see him pop out from under a shrub or from behind a chair or from up a tree for a month now. And I had this huge grief over him that I couldn't let go of, because we never knew what happened. With Stones, that was so very final; I held him in my arms as the doctor euthanized him and that grief, although incredibly huge, had an end to it.

This didn't. And now I know why.

The people who found him have had him and been feeding and sheltering him for about a week, maybe a little more (he's still not telling me where he was the other 3 weeks). They were so nice and unlike the other people who've seen a grey cat and I had to go and wonder whether or not it might be him, I knew this was Jack the moment I saw him.

He hated all four minutes of the car ride home, by the way. That's my boy.

Comments

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, what a wonderful relief! Have you thought, btw, about having him tagged so if he goes missing again someone can take him to a vet and get your contact info?

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

He's got tags and a chip, but he wears a breakaway safety collar and it broke away. Most people don't know to take a stray cat to the vet and have it scanned, though. At least now the county is telling people who call in to do that.