Featured, Rambles

Seems like where there’s good, there’s bad. You know, that yin and yang thing, I guess that’s what it is. I don’t know. I’m not even 100% sure that anything bad has happened yet, but I just have this icky, sinking feeling.

My indoor cat, Honey, became an outdoor cat about 3 weeks ago now. She had been marking the house, for what reason I don’t know, and also seeming to punish me for keeping her indoors by urinating on top of the work on my desk. To say that I was upset is an understatement, though I love Honey and started thinking that maybe she would be happier going outside sometimes. After all, my parents had freed their cat Harley from indoor exile and she became a very happy, well-adjusted cat that comes and goes as she pleases. I was hoping for the same with Honey… For the first few days, she exercised her freedom a lot and stayed out doors, but never venturing far from the house. She’s a calico and a long-haired one at that, and she is a stark contrast to the green landscape, therefore sticking out like a sore thumb. I was glad that she seemed to love to just lay in the yard and chase bugs around.

She became instant friends with the neigbor’s cat, Buster, which was a good thing for both of them. They both needed a friend. For the past two weeks or so, I have witnessed her playing happily and darting back and forth across the yards with her new playmate.

She has been spending so much time outdoors, not wanting to come in at all, that I moved her food and water to the sunporch where she can come and go, where she typically sleeps and gets out of bad weather. She has had no interest in being in the house at all.

I cuddled her last night as she slept in her kitty bed on the porch and I went to bed. That was the last time we saw her. Sure, she might just be out and about and hasn’t made it back home yet, and I really hope that is the case. So far, there’s been no sign of her anywhere. I know that cats can head off for a length of time before coming back, but that would be very unusual behavior for her, though I certainly hope that’s the case.

Hoping that wherever my little Honey is, she is safe and sound. Come home!