Cat Thought Lost Finds Its Way Home For Holidays
January 11, 2020 at 4:54 a.m.
Cat Thought Lost Finds Its Way Home For Holidays
By Jackie [email protected]
Mark and Wency Jackson moved in their Milford home in the last week of June.
“She had been out a couple of times for an hour or two,” Mark said of Dos.
Wency said Dos has always been an indoor/outdoor cat. In order for Dos to get used to the new environment, they went out with her, thinking she’d be fine.
Then not even a week into being in Milford, Dos went out on her own.
“An hour or two went by, I went out the door to let her back in and she wasn’t there and we had to leave,” Mark said, figuring when it got dark, Dos would be waiting for Mark and Wency when they got home.
That didn’t happen.
The couple started putting things up on Facebook to try to find Dos.
“We put her favorite blanket outside, her litter box, everything we could think of,” Wency said, also saying they called all the animal shelters and clinics in the area and posted information on the lost pet Facebook pages.
“Milford is not a huge town, I thought someone would respond,” Mark said.
Not sure how she got out, Wency said “the general consensus is we think she was trying to find her way back to our old house.”
The couple used to live in Warsaw, where they lived a distance from the road, so Wency said Dos didn’t have a lot of experience dealing with the street.
Mark said at the Warsaw residence, Dos could roam wherever she wanted, saying she could go a half mile away, but she always came back.
After about a week, Mark said the couple weren’t actively looking for Dos.
“I thought, well, she’s gone, something happened to her,” he said.
“We hoped she had just got taken in, because there’s a few places around here where people have lots of cats,” Wency said. “It’s kind of rural, with lots of barns, so we hoped she was just hanging out with them.”
Wency also said they were worried an animal had gotten her, although they never saw her on the road.
Dos was gone for almost six months.
On Dec. 18, Wawasee Bible Church was having a Christmas-type event.
“I was walking up the door and the greeters there were kind of joking around that the next person that comes in gets a free cat because the cat kept trying to come into the building there and they were trying to keep her out,” Mark said.
Dos was meowing very sickly and angrily. Mark said the greeters said the cat wouldn’t come up to anyone.
Mark said he walked up to the cat the greeters were referring to and she came right over to him.
“The greeters were like, ‘Something’s weird,’” he said, since the cat wasn’t going up to anyone else.
“Then, I said, ‘I think that’s my cat,’” he said. He doesn’t think anyone at the church recognized Dos.
Wency said Mark called her and said he had her cat. She said she was initially confused, thinking he was referring to the other cat they have, Fuzzy Pants.
“It’s somewhat unbelieveable that she’d still be around, this close for this amount of time,” Mark said. “Only she could tell us what she’s been up these past six months.”
Dos was a little skinny and dirty, Mark said. He was told by his vet that the couple could take her in to get checked out or they could keep an eye on her. So far, they’ve chosen the latter.
They say she seems fine.
However, Mark said there was some reacquainting between Dos, their other cat and their dog. Wency did say Dos gained her body weight back very quickly.
“The first week back, she ate almost nonstop,” Wency said. She said Dos was pampered as much as she would let Mark and Wency pamper her.
There have been a few changes since Dos has returned home.
The dog is her best friend and the dog now won’t let Dos near the door.
Mark also said they’ve looked into harnesses and a lease to help Dos understand being in the yard is fine, but beyond that isn’t, but Dos hasn’t spent much time in the yard.
“She hasn’t had a lot of interest in going outside,” Wency said. Dos also didn’t usually sit in their laps much, but now, she’ll come right up and cuddle for hours.
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Mark and Wency Jackson moved in their Milford home in the last week of June.
“She had been out a couple of times for an hour or two,” Mark said of Dos.
Wency said Dos has always been an indoor/outdoor cat. In order for Dos to get used to the new environment, they went out with her, thinking she’d be fine.
Then not even a week into being in Milford, Dos went out on her own.
“An hour or two went by, I went out the door to let her back in and she wasn’t there and we had to leave,” Mark said, figuring when it got dark, Dos would be waiting for Mark and Wency when they got home.
That didn’t happen.
The couple started putting things up on Facebook to try to find Dos.
“We put her favorite blanket outside, her litter box, everything we could think of,” Wency said, also saying they called all the animal shelters and clinics in the area and posted information on the lost pet Facebook pages.
“Milford is not a huge town, I thought someone would respond,” Mark said.
Not sure how she got out, Wency said “the general consensus is we think she was trying to find her way back to our old house.”
The couple used to live in Warsaw, where they lived a distance from the road, so Wency said Dos didn’t have a lot of experience dealing with the street.
Mark said at the Warsaw residence, Dos could roam wherever she wanted, saying she could go a half mile away, but she always came back.
After about a week, Mark said the couple weren’t actively looking for Dos.
“I thought, well, she’s gone, something happened to her,” he said.
“We hoped she had just got taken in, because there’s a few places around here where people have lots of cats,” Wency said. “It’s kind of rural, with lots of barns, so we hoped she was just hanging out with them.”
Wency also said they were worried an animal had gotten her, although they never saw her on the road.
Dos was gone for almost six months.
On Dec. 18, Wawasee Bible Church was having a Christmas-type event.
“I was walking up the door and the greeters there were kind of joking around that the next person that comes in gets a free cat because the cat kept trying to come into the building there and they were trying to keep her out,” Mark said.
Dos was meowing very sickly and angrily. Mark said the greeters said the cat wouldn’t come up to anyone.
Mark said he walked up to the cat the greeters were referring to and she came right over to him.
“The greeters were like, ‘Something’s weird,’” he said, since the cat wasn’t going up to anyone else.
“Then, I said, ‘I think that’s my cat,’” he said. He doesn’t think anyone at the church recognized Dos.
Wency said Mark called her and said he had her cat. She said she was initially confused, thinking he was referring to the other cat they have, Fuzzy Pants.
“It’s somewhat unbelieveable that she’d still be around, this close for this amount of time,” Mark said. “Only she could tell us what she’s been up these past six months.”
Dos was a little skinny and dirty, Mark said. He was told by his vet that the couple could take her in to get checked out or they could keep an eye on her. So far, they’ve chosen the latter.
They say she seems fine.
However, Mark said there was some reacquainting between Dos, their other cat and their dog. Wency did say Dos gained her body weight back very quickly.
“The first week back, she ate almost nonstop,” Wency said. She said Dos was pampered as much as she would let Mark and Wency pamper her.
There have been a few changes since Dos has returned home.
The dog is her best friend and the dog now won’t let Dos near the door.
Mark also said they’ve looked into harnesses and a lease to help Dos understand being in the yard is fine, but beyond that isn’t, but Dos hasn’t spent much time in the yard.
“She hasn’t had a lot of interest in going outside,” Wency said. Dos also didn’t usually sit in their laps much, but now, she’ll come right up and cuddle for hours.
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