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astrog - 15 Feb 2006 15:42 GMT

A little background...

About a year ago we moved, my wife myself and two cats, to a new house.
The new house was only about 600 yards from the old one, up a hill and
turn right.

We all settled in nicely, and the cats seemed to enjoy the bigger garden
etc. Now last week we had a weeks holiday abroad, and one of my mates
Ian agreed to cat-sit. now my wives cat called Gizmo, is a very clingy
type animal, will sit for hours on his mistresses lap, staring adoringly
into her eyes. I sometimes am at home when my wife is away, and he will
look around for his mistress and whine a bit when he can't find her, I
think I make a sort of poor substitute, but enough to keep it happy.

However last Friday, Gizmo disappeared completely for about 12 hours,
and poor Ian was beside himself trying to find it, out looking in the
road etc. Then he got a phone call from our ex next door neighbours,
asking if a cat was missing. Turns out he was down at the front door of
our *old* house bawling the house down to be let in. So Ian was able to
go down the road and rescue it.

Was this Gizmo trying to find his mistress ? Thinking we had *moved*
back to our old house ? We always thought he was a bit thick, but this
looks like he is not so daft after all !

Needless to say for the past three days Giz has followed my wife about
like a second shadow :-)

Gizmo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/astrog/60448895/in/set-1257686/

Astrog

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NanCe - 15 Feb 2006 16:23 GMT

>About a year ago we moved, my wife myself and two cats, to a new house.
>The new house was only about 600 yards from the old one, up a hill and
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>back to our old house ? We always thought he was a bit thick, but this
>looks like he is not so daft after all !

If you had just moved very recently and he went back to the old house, I
would say it was because that is the house he was used to and so returned to
it. But since you moved a whole year ago and you were away on vacation when
he returned to that house, I would say he was looking for your wife. He was
obviously missing her and was worried and you weren't there to console him.
Awwww, what a sweetheart - and a smartie too! I guess when he's pining for
his mistress, he's not so daft after all!

NanCe

(if it's any consolation, maybe he missed you a bit too! Okay, not as much
as your wife, but maybe just a little bit(?) )

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astrog - 16 Feb 2006 15:16 GMT

> (if it's any consolation, maybe he missed you a bit too! Okay, not as much
> as your wife, but maybe just a little bit(?) )

Yewp, I think a little bit. If I am around and she is not, he will moan
and grump a bit, but not the wild-eyed mad panic mode he can sometimes
get into ! When we got him he was very young, off a couple who could not
cope. I suspect he may have been taken away too early from his mum, and
sort of imprinted heavily onto my wife. Thats enough amateur cat
psychology...

Astrog

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wester@laway.net - 15 Feb 2006 22:34 GMT

>A little background...
>
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>our *old* house bawling the house down to be let in. So Ian was able to
>go down the road and rescue it.

Very happy he's home and hope he will stay there!

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whayface - 16 Feb 2006 13:45 GMT

>>A little background...
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>Very happy he's home and hope he will stay there!

I would suggest that he be kept indoors when you or the wife are not there.

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astrog - 16 Feb 2006 15:18 GMT

> I would suggest that he be kept indoors when you or the wife are not there.

Nice idea, but this is a very outdoors cat, not a chance of keeping him
in for a week. Who would do all the patrols then ?

Astrog

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