At daycare they have this guinea pig, which my son calls “Peet”.
We were allowed to take it home for the weekend.
“Peet” wasn’t phased by anything; not by our dog, not by our cat, and was in fact quite happy to go in the bath!
Erm … Maddie – what are you doing?
Courageous little creature, that’s for sure.
November 28 2009 | Pets And Animals | Comments Off
Both animals caught sunbathing on a lovely sunny day!
(I so want to be a pet in my next life)
August 23 2009 | Pets And Animals | Comments Off
Maddie is only 9 months old and quite tiny. She never goes (much) further then our garden and our direct neighbors. She’s always there when we come home (most likely for the food, but maybe for the odd snuggle as well) and she is always there first thing in the morning (for a snuggle). So when she wasn’t there on Monday morning my wife immediately knew something was wrong. I’m not quite as intuitive, and my early morning reply was something like “She’s a cat… Zzz”.
A typical morning welcome
On Monday afternoon (I came home early) we spread some pamphlets and spoke with the neighbors. We figured that maybe she was trapped somewhere (like a garage), or was hurt and in hiding. Nobody had seen her that day though.
On Tuesday morning I spread some more pamphlets now in a bigger area. I was also allowed to place a pamphlet at the local dairy. Her collar had a phone number on it, so we checked the phone all day for messages but nothing.
By Tuesday evening we started to really worry about where she was, and then out of nowhere a call… A little girl had found Maddie’s collar just a few streets away. My idea was to distribute more pamphlets in that very area, whereas my wife wanted me to check that street. Find out exactly in what sort of area she had gotten lost, and see if she was even still there somewhere. So I went to check, and it was so dark I couldn’t even read the mailbox numbers so I had no idea where to even begin.
On a whim I yelled “Maddie!”, and it was immediately answered with a loud “Meow, meow”. I couldn’t see her because she was hiding in a tree behind some leaves. When I did find her I couldn’t get to her as she was up to high. After some time she figured out how to get down on the fence from where I could grab her. She never stopped meowing until we got home.
PFEW! 
Once home she was spoiled with food, milk, and lots of snuggles.
In the end we concluded that she must have gotten into a cat fight (lost her collar, scratches), got lost, and hid under a car (stains on her fur) and in a tree.
The moral of this story
We love this cat!
Maddie catching up on some sleep
July 04 2009 | Pets And Animals | Comments Off
