Lost...and FOUND!

On Monday night, April 7, 2008, I ran outside at night and got lost! I'm never allowed out after dark because we live in the mountains where there are dangerous wild animals like coyotes...but Daddy had opened the door to get something from the garage, and I darted outside before he could stop me! I was just being silly, and had no idea that anything bad could happen to me. Daddy tried to get me but he fell in a ditch and hurt his back! (poor Daddy...I'm sorry.) So Mommy went out to look for me, but that quickly, I had disappeared. I was very, very frightened. I can't tell Mommy if a coyote chased me, or if I got hit by a car, but I do know I was badly hurt and went and hid....for THREE DAYS! Mommy was beside herself...She put up "Missing" posters with my photo, sent a "lost cat" ad into the local paper, and alerted the neighbors to look for me. (This all makes me feel very impurrtant!)
On the morning of April 10th, Mommy got a phone call from her next-door-neighbor, telling her to come over right away. Mommy ran over, and there I was, huddled in the back of a doghouse! It seemed like a safe place for me. I was too scared and in too much pain to come to Mommy, so she crawled inside the doghouse to get me. She found that I had a big, bloody spot on my left hip and that my left hind leg was just dangling, obviously broken. She rushed me to the vet. The doctor took X-rays that showed my thigh bone was fractured in two places. He put it back together with a pin and two wire coils to hold the bone together. I will have to wear a cast on my leg for awhile, but it could have been SO much worse! I am glad to be safe again, and I purromise never to run outside anymore! Thanks to all my furiends for their purrs and purrayers...I know they helped me to come home to Mommy and Daddy!

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