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Lesley - 07 Jun 2007 15:47 GMT
I forgot to take Dave's gutter frame into the bedroom this morning so he had
to call me from work and I had to take an extended lunch break to run home
and sort it out (No I wasn't best pleased a while ago I think he would have
tried on his own but he says his feet are at their most stiff in the morning
and he doesn't want to risk a fall)

Turned out to be a blessing in disguise when I came in, our front door
suddenly refused to close. It jammed about 18inches from the frame. I looked
and for no good reason the plate that the closing devide chain goes through
(I don't know the technical term) had lifted off the frame and was hanging on
by a thread.

I say it was a blessing in disguise because Esther upstairs had the
carpenters in and it took one of them a few minutes to fix the problem for us,
if it hadn't happened until I came home then it would have been like that all
night because our landlord wouldn't send a carpenter out at night and we
would have had to sleep with the bedroom door closed and the litterbox in the
bedroom.

So there was a period where the door was open and at one point even the door
downstairs was open. Now Dunzi likes to get out but she's a bit retiring when
there is a lot of people and noise, which there was but....we can't find her.
I thought I saw her looking out of the window and I couldn't find her in the
hallway or outside so I guessed she had hidden somewhere. Dave also thought
he heard her growling at the window (she does this a lot, looks out at the
World and growls at it) but its turned out to be Sarsi.

Dunzi is almost certainly asleep somewhere in the house (and Dave has no ham
to make the all important test with, if he had some ham he could confirm one
way or the other if she was in the house in 10 seconds flat) and will wander
out when she's ready but until she does I can't help but worry that she's got
out and been scared off....the problem is she never comes when you call her

My imagination is playing some nasty tricks at the moment

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs
jofirey - 08 Jun 2007 04:05 GMT
>I forgot to take Dave's gutter frame into the bedroom this morning so he
>had
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> morning
> and he doesn't want to risk a fall)

I could be worse.  There was actually a day shortly after Charlie retired
while I was still working that I had to come home and change the channel on
the TV for him.

Or something of the sort.  When he gets frustrated he starts pushing buttons
on the remote a random and it isn't always easy to figure out what he's done
to get it undone.

Currently you have to push one button on the tv remote three times (to get
to av1 where its hooked up) to watch a movie on the dvd player.  And a
different button once to go back to television.

That is if you don't push some other button that takes the remote of TV
control to something else, or change some other critical setting in between.

Getting old is especially tiresome for everyone involved if you haven't
managed to develop any patience along the way.

I do understand about his feet.  Mine are really stiff in the morning from
Rheumatoid Arthritis, and a lot of times in the morning that first trip to
the bathroom is more critical than lying there and stretching the muscles in
your feet and legs.  I end up shuffling and bouncing off the walls.

Jo
Marina - 08 Jun 2007 07:16 GMT
> My imagination is playing some nasty tricks at the moment

Purrs that Dunzi shows herself soon.

Signature

Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Lesley - 08 Jun 2007 18:37 GMT
> Purrs that Dunzi shows herself soon.

As soon as I got through the front door she trotted out from behind
the washing basket and looked at me plainly then wondering why I
skritchied, smurgled, smootched and snuggled her for a good five -ten
minutes

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs
Daniel Mahoney - 08 Jun 2007 20:29 GMT
> As soon as I got through the front door she trotted out from behind
> the washing basket and looked at me plainly then wondering why I
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>
> Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

I'm *so* glad to hear that! Isn't it frightening when they disappear like
that?
Lesley - 09 Jun 2007 13:45 GMT
> I'm *so* glad to hear that! Isn't it frightening when they disappear like
> that?

I should be used to it with Dunzi, she's perfectly capable of finding
a quiet corner and settling down for the long haul,. The following
conversation is common in my house

Me "Have you seen Dunzi?"

Dave "Not for ages, she;s asleep somewhere"

Me: "But since I last went out?"

Dave: "I think so that was hours ago, didn't you see her when you fed
them?"

Me "Yes I did. I haven't been out since so she can;t have got out"

Dave: "there you are then she has to be in here somewhere"

Me "But where?"

Dave "Who knows?"

Me "I'm just going to check she didn't get out"

And yes although I know when I fed her she was there and I haven't
left the house since, I have been known to go and open the front door
and look out to make sure she somehow hasn't managed to walk through
the wall,...

Well there have been a couple of incidents where I was so sure she was
in and she wasn't. Once when Dave was in hospital, I woke up at 3.30am
realising that the nagging feeling was that I didn't recall seeing
Dunzi but I was sure she didn't get past me when I came in so what was
I worried about? Oh well to put my mind at rest I got up and opened
the front door and she came bounding past me as if to say "I was
wondering when you';d notice!"

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs
jmcquown - 09 Jun 2007 14:26 GMT
>> Purrs that Dunzi shows herself soon.
>>
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>
> Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

I'm soooo glad Dunzi was just hiding!

Persia once hid from me in plain sight.  I had just gotten her a small
cat-tree, just a cradle and a round barrel, not tall. (I was thinking ahead
since I really don't know how old she is and I also wanted something she
could jump onto since she can't climb without her front claws.)  She ignored
it for a few days, then one day I couldn't find her.  I walked all through
the apartment, checked the closets, under the bed, etc.  I knew she couldn't
have gotten out so where the heck was Persia?  She was meatloafing on the
cat tree cradle the whole time, snickering at the crazy human who was
running around in a panic looking for her!

Jill
Daniel Mahoney - 08 Jun 2007 14:25 GMT
> My imagination is playing some nasty tricks at the moment
>
> Lesley
>
> Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

I know all too well how that goes! That's what Nancy and I experienced
this weekend when Tabitha and Sammy went missing.

We'll be sending purrs that Dunzi is just hiding out and being a mystery
cat, and will soon tire of the game and show herself.

Dan
annie_wxill@hotmail.com - 08 Jun 2007 17:46 GMT
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> My imagination is playing some nasty tricks at the moment
>
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Purrs that Dunzi shows himself and admits to playing a b*st*rd cat
trick on you.

Annie
 
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