A Day in the life of ME!

Sammy's Great (Scary) Adventure

It was a dark and dreary night. Daddy had a friend over to stay the night. It was sort of cool outside, so Meowmy had the windows open. This is before the new windows came to the house, so they weren't very good. Very old and nasty looking, if you ask me. Well, Meowmy and Daddy usually keep the spare bedroom closed so me and my bubbies don't roll around all over the guest bed. Well, when Daddy's friend Bob came over to stay the night Meowmy opened the window in Bob's room. She opened it REAL wide-like, so that the room would cool off nicely. Well, when Bob got there he opened the door to the room and left it. Meowmy gave us Tem-tay-shuns (very nice of her, and very fortunate, for the extra treats sustained my life for the night away from home), Daddy and his friend left to go "hang out," and then Meowmy started doing some chores around the house. She noticed the back room was open, so she turned on the light to see which of us kitties had wandered in and that's when she saw it... There was no screen in the window. What she would later find out is that Nigel and I had sat in the window to look outside and the screen just popped right out of there! So, there we went. We decided to explore! At first it was kind of fun, but then I noticed how dark it was. Everything outside was so big and scary. I don't like my house from the outside. And LOTS of people keep dogs in their yards - thankfully behind fences, but they still barked at me. It was terrible! I was out there on my own (Nigel left me when I whined too much). I swear it was forever (note from Mom: probably about 10 minutes) and I got lost! Then I heard Meowmy's voice. She sounded really upset, but couldn't have been nearly as upset as I was! She was calling my name, so I turned around and went back toward her. Then I heard Daddy and his friend. They must have come back for me! I was REALLY really scared, so I started calling to them, too. But then I got confused. They had these big lights in their hands and they didn't look like themselves. I was yelling at these people to get me my mom... I saw the window and knew I needed to get in there, but I couldn't jump it. And then the lady got ahold of me and I yelled at her, "PUT ME INSIDE... NOW!" Oh good... it was Mom. She hugged me and kissed me and told me never to get out again. (No worries there!)
But then Mom just threw me inside the door. *HMPH* And she stayed outside. I sat in the living room window and yelled at her - "Nigel's outside! He's out there! Don't forget him." And I called to Nigel, too. It was scary out there, and I knew he was still missing. So, I was helping find him. He put Mom through a lot more grief. He was gone for SO MUCH LONGER than me (another note from Mom: probably about 5 minutes), so I'm definitely the better son. Crazy times at the Bailey house!

Love,

Sammy