Today is a happy day. This morning Cheddar came home after being lost for 18 days. He is dirty, stinky, scrawny, hungry and scared, but he is home!
We found him through a small series of miracles. I was supposed to be visiting teaching this morning, but I woke up with pink-eye and had to cancel the appointment. After I dragged myself out of bed I was greeted by two hungry kids whose only request was a popsicle for breakfast. Sure why not, you only live once, right? It was nice out and we had some orange juice popsicles in the freezer anyway. Knock yourselves out. Of course I had to follow them outside and take a picture.
Not even two seconds after I snapped that picture I heard him meow. We dropped the camera and popsicles and started calling to him. We found him in the side yard crouched down inside a window well, his voice was hoarse and he needed help.
After scarfing down dry cat food and tuna fish he was ready to say hello to his buddy Oscar.
I made sure to let Cheddar know how much we missed him by torturing him with a nice hot bath. He will thank me later.
After a few hours he was back to his lively, playful self. He has already sought out his favorite spots and is making up for lost time by begging for affection.
Today I am grateful for small miracles. And pink eye. And popsicles.
That’s great! I can’t believe he came back after that long. That is seriously a long time away. I bet your kids are thrilled. Yeah for such a happy reunion.
Thats so cool how it all worked out! What if you didnt let them have a popsicle for breakfast?! Good thing your such a cool mom:)
I love that you gave your kids popsicles for breakfast! You are so awesome! Crazy that after all this time Cheddar came back! Yeah- one big happy family! Sorry about the pink eye.
I am so HAPPY to see that you found your cute cat! That is AWESOME!! I can’t believe he was gone so long. I love the pictures of Drew at back to school night.
OH good, I am so glad you found him. I keep meaning to leave a comment on you blog and oh, my where does the time go? It was good to talk to you the other day, I really miss hanging out with you and your cute family. We have to plan a play date sometime in the near future. Have a great day and tell the family we said Hi.
Hey there! Glad that Cheddar is home…we saw the kids posters all over the neighborhood!! That is pretty lucky that he made it home isn’t it?!?
I’m so glad that he came back – Hooray for popsicles!