BABY IS BACK !!!!
On January 3rd, 2009 my kitty cat Baby snuck out the front door and disappeared on me. That afternoon we got a big snowstorm and I figured she was gone for good. I looked all over the neighborhood for her without any luck. As the days went by, we got more snowstorms, and we had a period where the temperature at night went down to 29 degrees below zero. I was rapidly losing hope that she would ever come home again.
Everyday I looked around the neighborhood hoping to see some sign of her. I even put a bowl of food outside near the front of the house, hoping that at least if I didn’t see her, maybe she would at least get to eat and stay alive. She is very skittish around strange people and the day she snuck out, I tried to catch her, but she took off like a rocket and she just wouldn’t come back to me.
3 weeks went by and I had lost most hope of seeing her again. The really sad part of all of this was that the day she disappeared, it was the one year anniversary of my 22 year old cat Rosco passing away.
Well, this Sunday (January 25, 2009) was a blessed Sunday indeed. About 10:00 A.M. I got a call from the Rock Island County Animal Shelter asking me if I had lost my kitty. To make a long story short, some wonderful people only 3 blocks from my home had found Baby!!
We made arrangements by phone for me to come and pick her up.
The wonderful family that found her had moved here in December and still had most of their packing boxes in their garage. The weekend that Baby disappeared, they had their garage door opened about 6 inches, and Baby managed to find her way into their garage. That same day, they closed their garage door and it hadn’t been opened since because they still had a lot of packed boxes to empty out yet. “Ruby”, the lady who found her, told me that she knew there was an animal in her garage but Baby kept hiding on her and Ruby couldn’t tell if it was a cat or a rabbit or what it was.
Finally, after 3 weeks, Baby got herself backed into an area where there were boxes all around her and they were able to corner her and catch her.
If you don’t have a microchip in your pet, GET IT DONE NOW!!!! Because Baby has a microchip and she was wearing her tag that gave a toll free number to call if you found her. Ruby called the number and they were able to tell her who Baby belonged to. That chip was the only thing that made it possible for her to come home.
I am eternally grateful to the family who caught her. Baby didn’t eat for those 3 weeks and she lost some weight and was dehydrated, but she is home and recovering tonite. They didn’t put food or water out because they weren’t sure what kind of an animal they had in the garage. I don’t blame them, it could have been anything from a possum to a rabbit to who knows what!! After they caught her though, they didn’t have any cat food but they had tuna, so Baby had a royal feast after her long fast.
Baby is sort of insecure right now after her ordeal. I can’t go anywhere in the house without her following me and meowing to make sure where I am. Even when I go to the basement to do laundry, she sits at the top of the stairs and meows at me until I come back up again. The bathroom is no longer off limits either, lol.
I truly believe the good Lord was watching over her. I just don’t believe that otherwise she could have found shelter and survived for 3 weeks in way below zero weather and numerous snow storms.
Thanks to the Lord, and some wonderful people, she is back home, hopefully to stay.
This is my favorite one out of the group. I haunt our local Goodwill looking for cute like new baby items and found this pretty sweater. The picture color is off a bit as it is actually a blueish lilac. I couldn't find yarn that I liked to go with it, so I made the hat and booties in white, and used embroidery floss that matched the flowers on the sweater to edge the hat and make ties for the booties.
This is just another cute little sweater I found and made a hat for it.
I found this cute little pair of panties and matching headband at Goodwill. It has strawberries and cherries on them. So I made a hot pink sweater to tie it all together.
I went to JoAnn Fabrics awhile back and found a bunch of cute buttons marked down to 25 cents and 50 cents a card. I loved these red stars, so I made a white sweater with red sleeves to use them on.
Just a pretty little peach sweater made out of Pound of Love yarn. And some of my JoAnn's button finds.
A variegated color of yarn that I just really liked. I like purples, lol.
I had this partial skein of really bright colors. I didn't want it to go to waste, so I made the body of the sweater white, then put different colors of buttons on it to pull it all together.
For September, our projects are going to be blankets. I found this cute little baby quilt and decided to make it my first item for the blanket drive. We have more requests for blankets and quilts than anything, and cold weather is coming up soon!
