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Several false alarms on the walk home from cafe. One of them REALLY got my hopes up, a real friendly little black kitty in damn near the same spot we lost track of Umbra—but they had big white footy markings and I just stooped and petted 'em and sang o/` You are not my cat but you're a good cat!! o/`
I also saw 3 more kitties on the way, for a total of 3 kitties without collars and one outdoor cat with nothing but a ribbon, all of which were plump & happy. Umbra should be OK.
kitty stuff (~)
It was very difficult to interact with folks who had farm cats and treated them the same way... I'm very sorry...
*Hugs softly*
kitty stuff (~)
Also, I ran into our neighbor's teenaged kid. I mentioned that Umbra was still missing, and he just kinda said, "Yup." He was surprised the new litter's stuck around as long as they have, and that Sugarfoot's stuck around at all. This is apparently quite normal to him, and while I STAUNCHLY disagree, I don't he's the kind of kid who would callously send a cat off to certain or likely death. This is what people do around here, and I don't like it, but it makes me worry less.