the sympathetic vibration

So… after I got to Waco on Thursday, I left early Saturday morning to fly to California for 4 days to pack up my stuff there, see some people, etc. A kind new friend from Baylor offered to watch the cats while I was gone and so I left them in my new apartment and opened up some windows since there was still no air conditioning.

Anyway, apparently sometime on Sunday night between 9pm and 9am, Niko got out of the apartment. We think he probably fell out the kitchen window (I didn’t realize the screen was unattached on one side) when he lost his balance or something. I can’t imagine him jumping from the 2nd floor, but maybe he meant to get out. In any case, I haven’t been able to look for him, and while Suzanne and others have been doing all kinds of things to try to find him, he still is missing.

At this point, it’s been 72 hours… who knows where he could have gotten to…. and I don’t even know where were he would try to go. He seems like the type that would find a cool dark place and call that “home” since he’s always running back to his safe zones, but there are flyers all over the place and a lost pet posting on Craigslist, but I haven’t heard from anyone who has seen him. He’s not been turned into the Humane Society, but I did look up his micro-chip number so hopefully if he does turn up somewhere I can get him back.

I’m so upset about the whole thing. Partially because I don’t want him to get hurt or go hungry or anything, but also because the cats have been the only constant thing in my life for the last 2 months. I’ve been all over the place, but I always knew the cats would be there when I got home…. and as my place of “home” changed… they always came with me.

Anyway… please, please send all your good pet-finding thoughts to me. I’m hoping that if I get back there and call for him and he recognizes my voice… and walk around the blocks surrounding my apartment. Well… hopefully he’s still there and can be found. Niko is such a sweet kitty… I’d be heartbroken to lose him like this.