Oh Leslie, How awful!! <ok - take a deep breath now> It's good that your boyfriend called 911. In the mean time (since I know you're not going to be in any shape to study)... First - Notify any and all shelters and vets and animal control in your area & let them know both your cats names, colors, sizes, sexes, and the fact that they are microchipped. Second - Get your boyfriend's dog out & go walking in the direction that the car went and where your bookbag was found. Let him guide you as you walk - the kitties love him, so may be more apt to come out for him. Third - put up posters everywhere with pictures and a contact number (you can do this while you're out walking with your boyfriend's dog) Fourth - contact your local paper & TV station, see if they can help get pictures out - the more people looking, the better
Please keep us posted!! Kat (Mew Jersey) On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Leslie wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:06:36 -0700 > From: Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > To: Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: Need immediate thoughts for Satch and Beatrix > > Please bear with me here in writing this, I didn't know how hard it would be > to put into words. > > I spend my weekends at my boyfriend's house and take the cats with me (they > love him and his dog, and I don't like leaving them). Monday mornings I > pack everything up including the cats, go back in to say goodbye to Ed, and > then drive the 20 minutes home. > > This morning I loaded in my groceries, my school books, the cats, go back in > kiss Ed goodbye, grab my breakfast in a tupperware from the fridge and go > back outside to find someone in my car backing it out of the driveway. The > doors were unlocked, but there was no key inside it, so they must have > hotwired it. I ran at the car backing up, yelling, "hey" and "get out" and > banging on the windshield, I in fact, smashed the tupperware against it, > having no other weapons (eggs went everywhere), but they kept going. I > yelled that there are cats in there, but they didn't stop. Ed heard me > yelling and by the time I got back inside, he was on the phone with 911. > > As indoor cats they don't wear collars, though both are microchipped. They > ride well in the car as long as they're loose, so they were loose. I don't > know which is more likely, them to get thrown out, or to be kept in. Satch > is probably talking the thief's ear off because he didn't get fed before we > left. I am so scared that they'll have been thrown out. Satch is a big > guy, was found on the streets, he can handle what is likely to present > itself to him, but the kitten....oh you guys, I'm so scared. > > I would have thought they'd be a theft deterrant. > > He threw my book bag out the window across from a nearby park, I have no > idea why that item of all that he could have (my overnight bag, grocery > bags, etc), and figure that it's God's way of saying that even through this > stress I still have to study. ha. Ironically the 20 lb biology book was > probably the most valuable item in the car, not that its street value would > amount to much. > > Naturally, I've spent the morning searching that area to see if the cats > might have been tossed there, too, but haven't found anything. Satch knows > his name and comes to it, so I hope that they at least stay together. > > Pray that the police call ( I have Ed's cell phone, mine was in the car, but > maybe they'll be able to use it's tracking device to locate it ), and pray > that they have good news. Picture Satch and Beatrix oblivious to my > concerns and sleeping on the back seat, or hanging out on a nice porch > waiting for me to find them. Pray that they not be stressed, but get back > to me after a harmless adventure on their end. please pray that I see them > again and that they are unharmed. > > Thank you all so much, > Leslie >
