for people to have a little moan when one topic changes completely into something else.
Well yesterday when that happened it was worth it. Someone rang me to say she had not used her voucher yet as her cat had a tummy upset and the vet said to wait a week or two. I said that would be fine and thank you for advising me. As I went to put the phone down she said almost as an afterthought on Saturday afternoon I found a very old, thin cat and took it to the RSPCA. I replied if ever you found a cat again please ring us and we advise you what to do rather than take the cat to the RSPCA, I also said that I was very surprised they accepted it as usually they just turn people away as they always have a list of cats waiting to come in. I really thought Oh! No it won't stand a chance going by what I hear constantly. Already upset at losing Jeannie that day, the thought did not help my tears. For some reason I went into the list of names for vouchers and noticed where the caller lived. Horror filled my mind; early September a lady had rung me about an old, thin cat that had been wondering round for a long time. Once established it had no owner I authorised her to take it to the vets and we actually spent hundreds of pounds on it (Billy) since that time and it was due back at the vets tomorrow. The finder was going to care for it until we could take it in, although even in the early days I suspected she would keep it as a few weeks before one of their cats Elvis had been killed in a RTA, although where they live it is considered very safe away from roads, grassy banks a little stream and lovely trees and shrubs, but he had wondered too far onto a busy road, Within the last couple of weeks their garden has been measured up to make it cat safe and they have spent £600 on a gate alone. (I have forgotten why I have told you all this, let me read what I have already typed.
Right part 2. Both people lived on the same road almost opposite each other; I e-mailed the carer of Billy who had by now advised me that if it was OK with me she would like to keep him. OK I was ecstatic. I just wrote ‘is Billy at home’. Back came the reply ‘why, tell me’, and then before I would ask any questions what is your phone number I have left my mobile at home. I then knew immediately he was missing. I replied and she rang me. She said Billy had gone missing and I asked her when and she said Saturday afternoon. as he had previously been wondering very near where she lived she had left it a couple of days thinking he would come home or they would find him but had planned to start ringing around later that day. I told her I thought he was at the RSPCA but there was no point in ringing them, as on Monday they don't answer the phone. She went straight there but of course the gate was closed. She rang me again and said right I will be at the gate when they open tomorrow. A couple of minutes later I remembered I had an ex directory number for them. I rang and asked about the cat that had been bought in late Saturday afternoon and did they still have it. Surprisingly they had and said they would have kept him 1 week, good job there was fur off in a few places where the vet had done various tests and also where Billy had a line in, so they knew he had recently had vet care and must have an ‘owner’. Initially they were a bit off with me but I explained that Billy had in fact been taken from outside his house and that over the last couple of months he had hundreds of pounds spent on him and he was on medication and still under the vets, after that they were fine, I asked if he could be picked up and they said as long as the owner gets there before 5 o’clock. I contacted her again and advise her but told her she would have to climb over the gate. Later she rang me and said Billy had eaten a huge supper and was now resting and his days of escaping will have passed.
