Halloween Decoration Weekend with Special Guest – a Little Black Cat Came from Nowhere.

Yesterday morning, a little black cat showed up at our front yard and made itself at home. It is a lost cat and it still has its collar on. Unfortunately, the collar has no phone number or address. I am not sure if our Halloween decorations gave it a sense of belonging, or Joey befriended it while we were putting up the decorations. Either way, it is just not leaving.

So, a few hours later, we had no choice but to feed it and made it a temporary shelter box, marked “LOST CAT” on all sides, hoping its family would come look for it and see this box… no luck. And the cat was not staying in the box, it preferred to stay under our car. Which is quite disturbing. We really don’t want any freshly grounded cat meat under our wheels.

Today is the second day it is staying under our car. It even quietly watched us and chased us a bit while the kids were riding bicycles in the backyard. My son hopefully asked, “Do we have a pet now, mom?” Sorry no, mommy has too much to take care of these days. Tomorrow, if it is still here, we will have to call Animal Care & Control to take it away. I wish the cat all the best. And somehow I feel that I will miss it.

Flashback a week ago, Joey and I were talking about his brother-in-law having Asthma partly caused by the allergy to his family’s cat, but the family still keeping the cat. I said to Joey, “Why your sister rather sacrifice her husband than to give up the cat?” What a stupid question, I didn’t understand because I never had a pet before (except for fish and turtle.) Now, this incident gave me some led to step into other people’s shoes and a taste of how it feels.

Wahoo. I am glad I didn’t ask other stupid questions such as, “Why Hillary Clinton still staying with Bill after the Monica incident?” … Surely I don’t want a taste of that.