a wonderful surprise....

As many of you already know, Sophia, one of our cats (David's favorite, but don't tell Reilley), has been missing since last Friday morning.  David has walked the neighborhood many times, looked in ditches, walked around the pond, gone to the former house, called our old neighbors asking them to keep an eye out for her, filed a police report, notified the humane society, and called and called and called her name at all hours of the day and night. No luck.  


We were really feeling quite good about how well all of the animals had adapted to the new place, especially Sophia, since she is such an escape artist when it comes to getting outside.  But, from the first day here, she has always been at the door when she wanted to come in.  That all came to an end last Saturday morning.  We left for Chicago for the birthday party feeling certain that she would be on the front porch when we returned----but she was not. So, needless to say, we have been very concerned and worried, wondering what happened to her---did she get hit by a car, did someone take her, did she try to find her way back to the old house, etc???  She has slipped many collars in the past, and she had no collar or ID.  However, she is microchipped and licensed, but someone would need to take her to a vet or the humane society to get the chip scanned.  We were giving up hope.


Last evening, David had gone to bed, and I was watching the news in the 4 season room.  Some movement at the patio door caught my eye---and there she was!  (She had never used this door in the past.)  I opened the door, she sauntered in, went to the food dish, ate, and then promptly went to bed----as if she had never been gone.  She appears to be the same weight, she is clean and just as relaxed and loving as ever.  We are back in the old routine.


If she could only talk....


This story reminds me of a song Zachary sang years ago with the Huntley Elementary School choir.  I don't remember all of the lyrics, but I do remember these lines:


"The cat came back.  We thought she was a goner, but the cat came back."

We are joyful and thankful that she is back with us.  Thanks to everyone who asked about her and worried with us.  She is fine----and so are we.  Welcome home, Sophia, from wherever you have been.