"Mounty Returns on New Year's Day" - a photo on Flickriver

            On New Year's Eve morning we were expecting a package to be delivered, so my husband kept looking out through the front door.  To his surprise instead of the package, he spotted a cat curled up on our bench! 

 There had been a family that lost their cat on Halloween Day, when it accidentally escaped through a door that was left ajar.  I immediately thought that this might be the cat!  I rushed to get a can of tuna fish, to offer the cat, so that I could try to coax it to stay long enough to inspect the collar that I had spotted on its neck. I carefully opened the door and began talking to it.  

As soon as I stepped outside, it bolted around the corner of the house and into our backyard.  I scurried after it and found it standing on the patio, so I began calling to it and showed it the tuna.  As soon as I sat the tuna on the ground, it came running to me and began to eat.  It purred as I stroked it.  

I had placed a pen, paper and my reading glass in my jacket pocket, so that I could see the tag on its collar.  Sure, enough there was the name of the cat on one side and a phone number on the other side.  I gave the paper with the phone number to my husband and asked him to call the owners right away.  

The man who answered said he lived nearby and would come right away to pick Mounty up.  However, Mounty had other plans!  By now, I had attempted to pick him up, and for a few seconds he was okay, but then he began to struggle in my arms.  Since I wasn't sure if he would bite or scratch me, I put him down.  Off he ran, jumped up and over the fence and into a neighboring yard, just as the owners, a lady and her son, pulled up out front!  

We all looked in the yard where he gone, but he had kept on running.  Mounty had escaped capture! 
 
They thanked me for my efforts and said, that since I had fed him and he knew there was a comfortable place to rest, that he might come back, so they asked if I would call them if he did return, but not go outside to get him the next time. 
 
Sure, enough on New Year's Day he had snuck back up on the front porch and was sleeping cozily upon the bench again.
I called the owners and within less than five minutes they came with their cat container and were able to retrieve Mounty!

They were happy to have Mounty back, but he was struggling to get out of the carrier!  I have a feeling it won't be the last time I see Mounty the escapee.

(He did not turn out to be the cat that had runaway in October.)

Taken on: January 1, 2024

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