They call her the wanderer....

Our cat, missing for the past 7 months, turned up at our backdoor last night !! (this is obviously not a picture of her at our current backdoor...)

Now, Annie, is 9 years old, so has been there, done it and seen it all. She has always been prone to taking herself off for a stroll which ends up lasting for a lot longer than she originally planned (the longest being 9 weeks). However, when we moved earlier in the year, we kept her inside for the recommended 2 weeks, then gently introduced her to the rest of the house and the garden. Now, where we live now is far more urban than where Annie has spent the rest of her life, so there are more cars and more traffic in general. this was a concern of mine, but for the first couple of days she seemed to like the garden, and spent time sleeping on top of our hedge - which pretty much explains what Annie is like :P

Then, one evening, she jumped on top of the shed, and disappeared into the alleyway which runs along the back of our house, and wasn't seen again until last night....7 months later!
Now, where she has been is of course a mystery. And considering all the awful weather we have recently had, just how she managed to survive is something I would pay to know about.
She was hungry, but otherwise unscathed for her adventures. Full of worms - which tells me her diet has pretty much consisted of birds and mice (hunting was never a problem for Annie) and her ears are badly flea bitten, but looking at her today, you wouldn't know that for more than half a year, she has been missing. In fact, Laurence had completely forgotten who she was and just called her puddy-cat when he saw her this morning. And even though we reminded him of who she was...he drew a complete blank, which is sad, but I am sure it wont take long for her to become part of the furniture again.

So, where ever she has been, and whatever she has seen, we are glad that she is back and in one piece. We are certain that whatever happened, she never once lost sight of where she belonged and where she wanted to get back to, because after 7 months, if she had found another family that were happy to feed and fuss her, surely she wouldn't have bothered to find her way back to a house she was pretty much unfamiliar with? Who knows, but needless to say, we are over the moon that she did. 


Loz x