Bud and Babe

Bud still liked to sit on the monitor when I was working and I would lave a small blanket or sweater on my desk and he would curl up on or inside it and take a nap. But he also liked his Babe. They got to be pretty inseparable. They would nap together, play together, actually, Babe taught Bud HOW to play. He didn't really know how to play because he'd been in a cage his whole life until we brought him home with us.

One day Bud got outside. We were beside ourselves. He just wasn't an outside cat, he didn't know the ropes! We gotta FIND him! We looked and looked, called for him, walked around the yard, the neighborhood, got in the car and drove around a little further from the neighborhood, came back home. On the way home I got to thinking, when Bud looks out the window from my office or the front room he sees the house across the street and their yard, and I just bet he is over there somewhere. 

I stopped the car when we got in front of our homes, our's and the across the street neighbor's, got out and shined the flashlight around the bushes and such, and there he was. Under the large bush in his yard across the street. That's what he always saw outside so he considered it his. He was terrified, yep. So I took off my jacket, captured him, I wrapped him up in it so I could get him inside without being torn to shreds. He was THRILLED to be in his inside home!! He snuck out again but I knew where he would be. :)  Then he got used to going outside. He and Babe would play in the flowers and under the deck, loved it out there.