Some Days Sunshine, Some Days Rain

Having a cat missing made me do all sorts of research on lost cats. I found out that if the cat is an indoor cat, he will be totally alienated in the outdoor world. His scent is no where to be found, so he will hide and hold up until dark and then begin his journey back to the house. Since Boaz was chased from the yard, it took him a bit longer to get back to the place where he got out. They stay in hiding if you are right there by them and won't make a sound. This is total fear.
Also an indoor cat is a lot more less likely to be ran over by a car, or get into other problems which a lost outdoor cat might encounter. Being used to being outside, they tend to stay out in the open more and snoop around. You know what they say about cats.

Well we did find Boaz, he was in the corner of the backyard. I found his glowing eyes peeping at me the 3rd evening that he was out. And we were both very happy to be united again. He seemed no worse for wear, a bit hungry and oh so loving. Him and Dually hit it right off again. So we have our wrestling matches in the mornings. Thats the sunshine we had.
Then about 3 days later, the rain came. Logan, our beautiful, sweet german shepard dog started acting a bit strange. Scott insisted that he would be alright, but as the evening went on he got progressively worse. He was all bloated and kept trying to throw up. I finally called the emergency vet, it was 11 by this time and they said bring him right in. We packed him up, he was getting pretty vocal , so you could tell he was in pain. They immediatly said that they needed to ex-ray him and that he would probably need an operation which would cost around 2,000 to 3,000 dollars. His stomach had gotten twisted and the gas was trapped in there. They would need to move everything around and possibly remove his spleen. We told them to take the exray and let us know what it showed. His stomach had been cut off for so long, it had began to die. Of course there was no way we could afford to pay that much anyway, so we had him put to sleep. It was a long silent drive home and we both felt pretty numb. We plopped into bed and the tears flowed. Realization was sitting in, we no longer had our dog and had just spent 400 dollar which we needed to live this month.

It has been 2 days since and I'm constantly reminded of him. Sweeping up his hair which was everywhere, removing his name from the food storage bin and picking up a stick he had placed on the patio the other night in an effort to get us to play with him, not to mention the numerous dog flops still in the yard. Oh there will be life after owning a dog, a much cleaner one, I'm sure.