Sophie disappears

One thing you can predict about cats. They're unpredictable. Yesterday
morning Sophie vanished. Earlier she'd been sleeping at the foot of
the bed - no, ON my foot - but now she was gone. Normally she hangs
around upstairs until I freshen the food dish. But not this morning. I
grew concerned. Had Sophie slipped past me when I went outside to feed
Mooch, our resident stray? Or was she lying ill somwhere? I mentioned
her absence to my SP - Special Person. She said probably Sophie had
slipped into Cat Space, that other dimension cats visit occasionally,
and that she'd be back soon. But I scoured the house, the yard, and
looked up and down the street. No Sophie. This was serious! I KNEW it!
Defeated and worried I passed the living room. There was Sophie,
contentedly sleeping on a large comfy cushion on the sofa. She'd been
there all along. But she never slept late, especially down here! Oh,
that's right - read my first two sentences again. Cats! Has yours done
this to you? Of course he/she has!

Jo Firey...

The TV show The Closer uses the title characters cat as a running gag for
this kind of behavior. "He" had kittens while at the vet for a checkup.
She runs out the front door when they open it to go out to search for her,
etc. They don't over play it and its kind of cute.

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

There's a cat on The Closer? I've only watched that show once - how could
I not at least check it out, with all the heavy promotion it got? But the
main character irritated me, so I didn't watch it again. There was no kitty
in the episode I saw - otherwise I might have watched again. :)

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)...

I rather like the show, when I get around to watching it
(unfortunately it now conflicts with the new "Vanished" on
Fox). The cat had more prominence during the first season,
unfortunately - now the "at home" scenes tend to involve her
live-in FBI agent boyfriend, instead. (IMO a poor substitute.)

Monique Y. Mudama...

Of course. When I first moved to Colorado, DH and I spent a week in
his old apartment before moving into the new one. Cats were not
allowed, so we had to keep a low profile. I couldn't find Oscar
anywhere in this two-bedroom apartment; thought she might have been
confiscated somehow by the landlord. Frantic, I called DH. But
before he came home from work to help, I finally found her behind a
pile of DH's old computer game boxes in the closet. She was most
peeved to be disturbed.

polonca12000...

Soncek hides himself from me all the time (and laughs at me when I can't
find him - my being very short-sighted does not help at all!)
Best wishes,
Polonca and Soncek

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

Ha - and they say cats have no sense of humor. Sophie was probably
chortling at you the whole time. Roxy certainly does this to me! I'll
walk all over the apartment, calling her, making a big fuss about

Jo Firey...

Yes there is a kitty. Named Kitty. It came with the house the detective
rented and at first she didn't know it was a she, or pregnant. Over the
season she has become very attached to the cat while not willing to admit
she even much likes it. And still refers to her as he.

searching for her. And then suddenly I'll look up to see her ensconced
on the refrigerator, watching me impassively and enjoying the show.

Takayuki...

Do cats often not come when called? When I first got Betty, she
didn't seem to answer to her name very much, although she would often
come to me anyway if she wanted attention, and I pitched my voice in
an inviting way. I thought that it was because she was a cat, and
cats don't come when called.

Micha...

Both Blacky and Merlin know their name very well. Blacky will mostly
come when called. Merlin normally first turns his head towards me and
setting up his "I've heard you calling me but I am now in the process
of considering to follow the call"-look. If he don't turn his head, he
has closed all communication channels to the hoomin' world.

Squarely Yours
Michael

But over time, either she figured out what I expected, or wanted more
attention, or just simply learned her name, and she would almost
always come to me when I called her. I think that happened gradually
over one or two years.

Karen...

Well, my come when I call if they want to.

Jo Firey...

Some cats come to their name or to your call. Others as the saying goes
take a message and get back to you.

We have had Molly for two years now and she has yet to acknowledge that she
has a name. She does kind of get the idea that if we are at the door
yelling and its getting dark, she needs to figure out where she wants to

Adrian A...

Snoopy is more likely to come running if I call Baggy, she thinks she's
missing out on something. :-)

Cheryl Perkins...

I got Mandy and Betsy (RB) to come when called, well, as long as they had
nothing better to do, by giving them treats when they came when they were
kittens.

It didn't work if there was something else more interesting - particularly
if Mandy had managed to get out and I was trying to call her back in
before she was tired and hungry enough to want to come in.

By the way, in connection with earlier posts. Besty (RB) was always a
champion at hiding. A friend who was cat-sitting once ransacked the house
searching for her, and I once searched for her in a very small, nearly
empty house I was staying in temporarily. Of course, that time, I turned
around one more time and saw her sitting in an open and nearly empty
closet that I could have sworn I had searched several times already,
looking at me with mild curiosity at my odd behaviour.

Bobcat...

Are you sure you didn't detect a sly smile on her face?

sleep.

Bobcat...

I love when they do that! Especially Martha. She parks herself on the
banister, approx. 4X4 inches and surveys us as we go by. We call it
Kitty TV. They love it when we trip or stumble. You can almost imagine
them thinking, "poor wretches - only two legs. No wonder they fall
over!"