Pony

We’ve had two really big adventures since we moved in with the new humans. The first one was lots of fun but the second was terrible. This post is about our adventure OUTSIDE!

Waffle

One morning a few months ago we were minding our own business, looking out the windows in the window room. Pony saw a squirrel and pounced at it and suddenly, after a very loud noise the window disappeared. Pony walked to the disappeared window to investigate and then he disappeared! I didn’t know what to do so I looked for Pony and saw him OUTSIDE! He told me to join him, so I jumped and ended up on the outside floor.

Pony

I don’t know what I did, but as Waffle explained, we were OUTSIDE! There were so many new smells out there. And lots of salad. Salad is everywhere outside. I walked around and tasted all the salads.

Waffle

I was not so interested in the salads. I just wanted to go back INSIDE where the lady human lived. I found some steps and a door so I stayed there while Pony explored and ate salads.

Pony

I found the best salad next to the steps that Waffle climbed.

Waffle

I watched Pony eat salad for a while, then I heard the lady human. She sounded a lot like the loud human but her voice was higher. And she sounded a little scared. Finally she opened the door by the stairs where I was watching Pony and I gladly went inside. I tried to tell her that Pony was just outside the door by the steps but she didn’t understand me.

Lady Human

What a frightening morning. I was chilly so went to close the window in the lodge that Dean had opened the night before. It took me a second or two to realize that the pull-down screen was no longer pulled down. I immediately understood what happened: the cats must have seen something out the window and pushed on the screen which then snapped open. It’s made in a way that to open it you push down on the bottom and it rolls up into a housing at the top of the window.

After shouting for Dean to come help me find the cats I looked out the lodge door and saw Waffle sitting on the porch. I let her in and went outside to search for Pony. I decided to go counter-clockwise around the house, not knowing how far he could have gotten — imagining the worst. Imagining that he’d been outside all night and eaten by the neighborhood foxes or coyotes or hit by a car. I called him and called him. Dean showed up with their food and shook the bag (the treats would have been more effective but at least he tried). I walked down one street and back and then continued looking and shouting (followed by Dean shaking the bag of food) in the front yard, looking up the streets that pass by our corner house.

By this time I was devastated and terrified, wondering how I was going to break the news to their previous humans. Dean went back in the house and we figured that we’d just wait a bit to see if Pony showed up when he was hungry. As I walked back into the house, I wondered which photo I would use on the Lost Cat posters I planned on putting up around the neighborhood.

Not long afterward I went back outside to the paper recycling bin to toss a box into it. There, in front of the recycling bin was Pony, munching on grass next to the patio, steps away from the porch where I found Waffle. It seemed he walked clockwise around the house and found the grass. I scooped him up and took his protesting self in the house, relieved that it all turned out okay.

Pony

I wasn’t doing anything wrong. The lady human had no right to pick me up and make me go back into the house where I get scolded if I eat salad there.

Lady Human

Please note that Pony occasionally nibbles on our houseplants or cut flowers and yes, we do scold him when he does that.

I took no photos for obvious reasons (panic….?) so here are a few recent pics.