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OT: HELP PLEASE -- Found Cheeto :-)

I found him and he's a freakin' Houdini cat! I just KNEW that the as soon as I posted, I would find the little stinker!!!!! So -- I was taking to one of my friends here who has seen my sewing room and she was convinced that he had managed to get stuck behind something in there. There are boxes and bags of needlework and sewing stash along all the walls and stuffed into every nook & cranny so there are a ton of places for a kitten to investigate and get stuck in. Now DH and I checked out the sewing room several times and he even looked behind the furniture with a flash light! I went in to search everywhere again and stared on the wall with the doorway and book shelves from top to bottom. Below the bookshelves, all open space is filled with stash. I moved everything and there was no Cheeto. The next wall has the window and under the window (pushed as close to the window as possible but not touching the molding) is a low chest of drawers. It is not quite to my waist and the sides and front are solid to the floor but the back has about a 4" gap. My sewing table is right in front of the chest and close enough that I can't open the drawers. My little cordless hands free phone sits on that dresser and I noticed that it was not on. I get down on my hands & knees (never a fun thing to do with my arthritis in the knees) crawl under the sewing table to get to the plugs, etc. I'm right next to the little chest of drawers and suddenly I hear a scritching sort of noise from UNDER the chest and suddenly Cheeto's little head pops out and he gives me a HUGE yawn!!! He jumps over everything and has a nice stretch in the middle of the sewing room floor and off he goes!!!!! He had to have slithered his way behind the chest (there's about 3" of space at the most and then squirreled his way under the back of the chest and fallen asleep there. DH looked but only behind the chest, not under it! The little brat cat acted like he was afraid of MOI and ran off and hid under the slipper bench in my bedroom. I went downstairs and he zipped right past me and went out to the screen room. Then I told him he had food, showed him the bowl and he came running and let me love on him. So he's reappeared -- LOL -- and I'm quite relieved. VBS, I'm afraid this is likely not the last time he finds somewhere to sneak into. Hopefully, next time it won't be at food time and I won't get scared and afraid he's managed to hurt himself. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Tia Mary
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Hooray--I read this one first and so glad I did.

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Lucille

Our cats must be cousins, since Adele can simply disappear and I can't find her anywhere! She does it almost every afternoon around 3, and comes waltzing out of who-knows-where about supper time. At 10 pounds she's not tiny, but she's a tuxedo cat, and when she curls into a ball to nap only the black shows and she can be in a dark corner and be invisible. I have a wee little bell on her collar with her ID tag, so the faint jingle helps, but only when she is awake and moving.

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Mary

Cheeto doesn't have a collar yet as he is still so little. He will have one by the time we take him to Lizard Land. The other kitties have collars with name tags and their license attached so they clink just like bells and that helps to know who is where. Of course, just as with your cat, that only works when they are awake and moving around :-)l CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Tia Mary

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Mulyanti

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