shanmonster: (Spasmolytic)
On the way out to Mom's car, I heard a very loud meow. I stopped in my tracks and looked around. I couldn't see a cat anywhere, but the yowling was the sound of a cat in trouble. So I put my purse down and started searching and calling. I finally found the cat underneath the sidewalk/step. In the summertime, a cat can get in and out of there easily. But the snow and ice had filled up all the ways a cat might escape. A woeful orange cat stared up at me from a deep crevice. It was Garfield, the young cat from two houses down the road. "YOWWWWWWLLL!" screeched Garfield before ducking away.

Mom and I looked around to find a way where he could get out, but none was to be found. We called him back to the gap, hoping to grab him and yank him out, but Garfield doesn't like to be picked up and ran back beneath the concrete. So we went over to the garbage hut and found some cardboard. Mom rolled it up into a thick tube, then used my buck knife to carve ladder-like rungs into it. We propped it in the crevice at an angle where he'd be able to scramble up without much difficulty.

We drove off to do our errands. About an hour later we returned. We called and called, and the vocal Garfield didn't answer. I hope it means he already left.

Date: 2005-01-03 08:03 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] zero-design.livejournal.com
:( Poor thing. If you discover that it's still there later in the day let me know - when I get home I can truck over some cat food to entice the kitten out...

Date: 2005-01-03 08:24 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
I'll check again in a bit, but I'm pretty sure he left. He's a noisy cat, and wasn't answering.
My Mom thought of using cardboard. I was ready to hunt for a piece of wood.

Date: 2005-01-04 09:25 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] daughty.livejournal.com
Ouch! Poor thing. Why do cats always have to be so curious and climb/ hide absolutely everywhere? Well, I reckon that's why we like them...

Date: 2005-01-04 08:44 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
I dunno. Curiosity didn't kill this one, though. I'm positive he left. I saw little kitty footprints going in the correct direction from the ramp.

Date: 2005-01-04 07:12 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] loxiearcane.livejournal.com
Anyone who rescues cats AND runs such a kick-ass bellydance site is my hero...!

Date: 2005-01-04 08:45 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
Maybe I should don spandex and a cape. No, scratch the cape. The Invisibles showed me the error of that....

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