Each day is a little life.

Sunday, February 05, 2006


Oliver is missing

Our cat Oliver has been missing for over three weeks now. She has been our pet
since she was a stray kitten; she wandered into the Cortland House when David
was moving out his last things in July of 1998. She went missing one other
time, when Carmen was a baby. She was gone two weeks, but we got her back on Mother's Day (David trapped her with a trap we borrowed from the city). She
appeared to have been in the creek the whole time--very dirty and very skinny.
This time, David has been setting up a trap again, but we only seem to get
neighbors' cats. And of the three cats we've seen come and eat some of the food
in the trap, only one has set it off, so who knows if we'd catch her if she came
up, anyway. The other night, Gabe prayed for Oliver to come back.

Here is the last picture I took of her--all cozy on Paloma's boppy!

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