She starts walking with me. I start petting and talking to her. She follows me over to my car – sitting a few feet away. I sit in the driver’s seat with my door open, just talking to her. She just sits there. Then all of a sudden, she walks over to me and hops up into the car!<\/p>\n
After nosing around the passenger seat and the middle row, she jumps up into my lap and settles down. At that point, I shut the car door and head home. What else would you do?<\/p>\n
Would you believe, she stayed laying in my lap all the way home. Courtney and I agreed that I should try a few houses by the school to see if she got out and they were missing her.<\/p>\n
(This was all discussed while Courtney was standing outside of the car and I was still sitting inside with the cat on my lap.) <\/p><\/div>\n
Now that she was settled into the porch (and seemingly quite content), it was time to call the vet. We had just had Cari and the house treated for fleas – didn’t want to get any more! So after she had a quick nap and some food – time for a bath! Off she went to the vet.<\/p>\n
After picking up the kids from school, we all headed over to the vet’s to pick up the cat. All three of them were so excited. But at this point, I was really emphasizing that we were a temporary home (ha) and that there could be a family out there really missing her. We needed to do what we could to try to find that family. That included flyers up at the vet, the schools and animal control as well as a classified ad in the much-read Rome newspaper.<\/p>\n