By Sunday afternoon Molly could get out unaided and it wasn't until late Sunday night that she finally got the hang of coming in... Sort of...Molly keeps working against the door trying 2 pull the door 2wards herself instead of just going with the flow and working with the door and pushing outwards.
As a result cat mother slept on the sofa again 2 b nrear the cat flap in case of Molly #fail.
Overall I think it all went well...I don't know. I was phasing in and out a bit. I wasn't worried as I had cat mother's tummy (next favourite position after lap.)
So cat mother ignores the walking alarm and settles for the work alarm and notices that my partner in crime is nowhere 2 b seen. Cat mother opens the windows (it's way 2 early 2 call 4 Molly) and gets to the lounge window when all of a sudden we hear this rather loud, self pitying and frustrating scream!!
It's her alright and cat mother rushes into the garden and discovers that the lady Molly is up on next doors roof. I know as far as I was concerned there was a massive déjà vu hit as I remembered having been in that situation myself, unable 2 get down! Panic sets in as u simply cannot remember how you got up there in the 1st place! All rational thought goes out the window! There is no logical thought process! What is going through the mind in that situation is that cat mother is here and it's her job 2 get u down and it ain't happening quickly enough! Heart beat is pumping 2 the dozen and ur pacing up and down and round and round all the time screeching ur heart out! Cat mother is tslking 2 u, u know this logically. She is telling u whar ti do or whete 2 b so she csn puck u up but it's all meaningless as suddenly life just flashes before u! At some point and eho knows how cat mother grabs hold of u, rescues u and suddely everything is okay...
Cat mother is extremely responsive 2 our cries of woe and it's almost as if everything else is blocked out as she tunes in2 us 2 resolve our pain!
Sure enough, cat mother had 2 go out the front door in her pink spotted pj's, found a bucket she could step up on and rescue Molly.
Then. Silence, purring, darkest dawn, stroking, re-assurance. I know this because it's exactly where I was at late November/December last year and cat mother nearly had kittens then! Bongo took a little longer than me. It goes in stages.
1. there is familiarity with local surroundings, gardens and cats - done!
2. Then. There is the getting out front stage - we live on a bus route, albeit unlike the Old Kent Road so I'm told; and we r a few minutes from a rail station (I was rescued from near there once and I got such a scolding!)
3. And most important of all is the streetwise stage which is a never ending story. I'm quite good at it, if I do say do myself, however I'm not sure that Bongo ever got this far and this may well be why he us know longer with us...
I think cat mother has had enought 4 now and so Molly is back on the lead. This is also in part due to the fact that the builders now have access 2 home again 2 finish the snagging and extras list (not much left 2 do now). Traffic and people between 0900 and 1700 Monday 2 Friday is so much greater than at any other time that I think it will be a little while b4 Molly is free 2 come and go 24/7 as I am.
BTW, I notice that we have almost finished the other brand and Whiskas is back in the cupboard again ...thank goodness...
And, after the massive clean up at the week-end one would never know the builders had ever been there. Let's hope it stays that way...
Peace
B
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