{"id":4759,"date":"2021-02-09T05:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2021-02-09T05:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:59:29","slug":"newsday-tuesday-lost-and-found-catand-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4759","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday \u2013 Lost and Found Cat\u2026and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SmokeyHiding-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SmokeyHiding-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SmokeyHiding-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SmokeyHiding.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We all take strict precautions to keep our cats safe. A huge fear for many of us is that our indoor cats will get out and that our indoor-outdoor cats will not come home at the end of the day. We\u2019ve probably all had close calls. Our precious Himalayan, Katy, fell (or climbed) out a window screen the first night in a house I\u2019d rented thirty years ago. I slept through the whole thing and was surprised to find Katy on our doorstep the next morning when I went out for the newspaper. Katy escaped a second time during my move into a home I bought a year later. This time she ran under the house. The best we could do\u2014because she refused to come out and it was dark\u2014was close her in under there until morning. I had a miserable night and she probably did too. But come morning, we removed the crawl space cover and she came<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlostlaura-e1602501690920-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlostlaura-e1602501690920-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlostlaura-e1602501690920-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlostlaura-e1602501690920-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlostlaura-e1602501690920-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlostlaura-e1602501690920.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> right out. Whew.<\/p>\n<p>My mother&#8217;s cat, Smokey (the cat I patterned Rags after) was an indoor\/outdoor cat often hid from Mama&#8211;probably not on purr-pose&#8211;he was just following his bliss and hanging out in cool, warm, interesting, cozy, or handy places around the yard. Yes that&#8217;s him watching us madly in search of him one afternoon from the garage rafters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kittenpony-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kittenpony-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kittenpony-375x500.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kittenpony.jpeg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Here\u2019s the story of a woman whose rental car was stolen with her beloved cat inside. To make things worse, she was traveling and this occurred in a strange city. She eventually contacted PetFinders and they were able to help her locate Willow. This is quite a story with a lovely happy ending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2021\/01\/29\/stolen-car-cat-pet-finder\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2021\/01\/29\/stolen-car-cat-pet-finder\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s an e-course you might be interested in. Jon Sweeney teaches spirituality and cats\u2014how to achieve \u201cpurrvana\u201d\u2014learning how to relax and live to the fullest like our cats do. In this e-course you\u2019ll learn the value of and how to seek warm places, keep schedules, voice your opinion, find the love inside, and play like it matters. Hurry, the last session is Friday, February 12. <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/283753660\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/283753660<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all take strict precautions to keep our cats safe. A huge fear for many of us is that our indoor cats will get out and that our indoor-outdoor cats will not come home at the end of the day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4759\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4760,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/4760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}