Monday, December 08, 2003
Emergency. At the staff meeting Val motioned me towards the phone. It was Karen telling me my mother had called her- Mama Cat had got outdoors. I called home, she answered. "Well I was in the kitchen and I saw the door was open and I got Princess, Bear, and Puff in but she ran away. She's under the bouganvillea bush."
My mother, at age 71, has developed some annoying habits. One is the seeming inability to correctly shut doors. Locks befuddle her. Where she lives they don't have to lock car or house doors. So I am constantly having to lock my mother's car door or check to make sure the front door is all the way closed. And this time she failed.
When I got home I found Mummy in the backyard. "She ran into the shed." I enlisted Michele's help and had mother stand in front of a hole and Michele in front of the door, where there is another hole, and went inside. Instead of remaining at her hole, my mother starts to wander over to Michele to explain what had gone wrong. I had to yell at my mother again. Inside the dark shed I heard movement and there was Mama Cat. She ran toward the door and I was able to grab her. Oh. She was very scared. And used her teeth and claws on both of my hands. But I was able to hold on and carry her into the house.
And now I have 9.1 inches of scratches marks as well as two tooth puncture wounds. And when I came back home my mother had the front door securely locked. Thank you very much.
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My mother, at age 71, has developed some annoying habits. One is the seeming inability to correctly shut doors. Locks befuddle her. Where she lives they don't have to lock car or house doors. So I am constantly having to lock my mother's car door or check to make sure the front door is all the way closed. And this time she failed.
When I got home I found Mummy in the backyard. "She ran into the shed." I enlisted Michele's help and had mother stand in front of a hole and Michele in front of the door, where there is another hole, and went inside. Instead of remaining at her hole, my mother starts to wander over to Michele to explain what had gone wrong. I had to yell at my mother again. Inside the dark shed I heard movement and there was Mama Cat. She ran toward the door and I was able to grab her. Oh. She was very scared. And used her teeth and claws on both of my hands. But I was able to hold on and carry her into the house.
And now I have 9.1 inches of scratches marks as well as two tooth puncture wounds. And when I came back home my mother had the front door securely locked. Thank you very much.
