So I come home from work (in the snow) and get stuck in the driveway. I had to get the shovel and clear the driveway to get in. It's October I find this annoying. Then my sister and I decide we are going to watch some movies. We go to redbox and get a scary movie and a chaser non scary movie so we can still sleep at night. We watch the scary movie get freaked out and watch our chaser to calm down. We are laying in the living room, it's dark except for the tv and the cats are just walking around like normal.
At one point. my sister goes into my nephew's room ( he wasn't there) and as she comes out, I scream and scare the ever lovin shit out of her. I was quite amused. I think she peed a little.
Halfway through our non scary movie (The Lincoln Lawyer) just as we both are about to fall asleep, we hear it again. It sounds like a herd of buffalo coming down the steps, loud meows, the sounds of the end of the world. My sister says "See that's not normal, why are they doing that??" I say " I don't know they are fighting but it does sound a little nuts." I get up and walk into my bedroom where they seem to be having a "Who Can Make the Most Obnoxious Scary Cat Noise Contest."
It's still dark and I am still a little freaked out from the scary movie and I turn on the light. I think " Oh Shit" then walk back to the living room and very calmly say " Yea ummm one of those cats doesn't belong. I don't know where it came from". She gets up and we are both like UMMMMM what now??? The two cats like just like each other.
Tippy runs into the bathroom, my sister shuts her in there. I close Stranger Cat in my room so they don't kill each other and then the search for Vinca begins. We call her and call her ..she doesn't answer (and yes she does answer when I call her name, both of my cats do). We search the whole house knowing that she is probably freaking out and isn't going to come out of hiding. I open my room and check about 5 times. Nothing. I knew she wouldn't be in there calmly while Stranger cat is in there. Then we go outside. Vinca will run out if the door is open but I don't let her out. I always grab her and bring her right in. If she got out, I have no idea where she could be or how long she was out there.
Me and my sister spend about five minutes trying to figure out how Stranger cat could have gotten in and how Vinca got out. Vinca got out once before and she was across the street behind my neighbors trash can on the side of their house. I go that way and look. Nothing.. It is 10:00 at night and we are trying to call her without waking up the neighborhood. I knocked on my neighbors door to let them know that if they see footprints on the side of their house, it's not a robber it was me. My tracks are all over in the snow. The lady next door to them has a cat so she calls her to see if her cat is missing. She says " Erica is here she is wondering if you are mising your cat. She may have yours and thinks you might have hers." Yea UMMM I never said that. I really don't think that the cat's emailed each other and said " Hey let's play a joke, you come here and I will go to your house.". Anyway, her cat wasn't missing. We did discover that one of the basement windows was slightly cracked and while it would have been a little tricky Stranger Cat could have gotten in. After about a half hour we went back inside.
My instinct says that Vinca is inside the whole time and I go in my room for the 50th time and she is in the corner behind furniture looking at me like " You better get this bitch outta here." Stranger cat was just chillin on my bed.
While Stranger Cat (we were trying to come up with a name but by the looks of it this cat belongs to someone and isn't just a stray so I am guessing she has a name). While Stranger Cat is not nearly as fat as Tippy, they look alot alike. You can't see if here but both their paws are white and their striping is very similiar. I think Stranger Cat pounced on my face in the morning and I had no idea it wasn't my cat. She must have been in the house all day.
So I have 3 cats in my house. Stranger cat is upstairs. We put her in my sister's room (with the door closed) and put litter (which she used), food and water up there for her.
My sister called the SPCA last night when I went back outside ( before we found Vinca) and the lady answered the phone by saying "What do you want?" Really???? My sister said " Hello??" Lady ( I use the term lightly) again says " Yea what do you want??" My sister proceeds to tell her that our cat is missing and another cat is in the house and we aren't sure what to do." The lady says something along the lines of " Don't you know what's going on out there, people don't have electricity." Yea because electricity has EVERYTHING to do with my missing cat and Stranger Cat as does the SPCA. My sister at one point, while I was standing there said " You don't have to be so rude we are just worried about our cat if it's out there in this weather," I could hear the lady talking trying to be a little nicer but who does that??
Anyway, we can bring it to a shelter today but first I am going to try to see if I can find out who is missing a cat!!!!! It's gonna be a long day.
