Still no sign of him, not since Saturday. I'm still keeping pretty cool about the whole thing. After all, Elliot only came in for the first time since last Friday just last night. Before then, the only way I knew he was still in the neighborhood is by catching glimpses of him here and there lurking in the shadows. But no glimpses of Fluffy at all.
He'd better come home. I keep going out and yelling for him and thinking how relieving it'd be if he came bounding over in the grass, like he used to. Sniff, sniff.
Sorry to hear about your cat. Is it microchipped? Do you live in a nice neighborhood or is it sketchy? If nice, it will probably turn up - if not, then you might start knocking on doors.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
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