I am doing my uber happy, oh so proud, feeling fantabulous dance now. It's almost midnight. I've spent the last two hours trying to catch a cat. Said cat is now in our guest room. Probably feeling trapped although he has food, water, litter and a nice big bed. I am feeling victorious. I have been trying to catch this cat for four months. He has eluded me. I win!
Cody the Siamese cat belongs to the woman who used to own the house we bought. She was unable to catch Cody so he has been coming to eat on the front step and running away as soon as he sees/hears a human. I vowed to catch him the day we moved in and I finally have.
Cody was outside meowing so I opened the window downstairs and tried to entice him in with some super yummy kitty treats. He was not fooled by me and simply stuck his head in, grabbed a treat and ducked back out. I thought I'd be smart and go outside to sit on the step so that Cody could go in the window and just maybe I could shut the window from the outside. Again he mocked me. This time he came up to me, sniffed and shot to the other side of the steps. I went back in the house, got some more treats, went back downstairs to the window. Rattled the food, listened to him meow in response, rattle, meow, it was a bit repetitive. I had one hand on the window and decided not to look directly at the opening. I heard him take a few treats off the window. I peeked and saw him halfway in. I quickly looked away as he saw me because I didn't want to spook him. I stood with one foot half off the floor, arched to the left with my hand on the window, head down and eyes closed so I wouldn't scare Cody the cat. It took about 10 minutes. 10 very long minutes. I could hear him slowly moving in and I took an occasional peek to check his progress. In my sneakiness I had put the treats on a chair away from the window with a trail leading to them. As soon as I heard him step onto the ledge I slammed the window shut. He responded with a very loud meow.
He's not happy to be trapped inside. He was sitting in the window yelling when I left. I am beaming because I finally achieved my goal. Now I have to decide whether or not I tell the woman who lived here or if I should just let him chill out for a couple of days first. I will tell her because if I were in her position I would hope that whoever had my cat would let me know. I also know that she really wants him back and so does her daughter. Is it really bad though that I want to keep him? After all this work I feel like I've bonded with him.
It will be interesting to see how he is tomorrow morning. I guess that will help decide when I let his human mom know that he has been caught.
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