A traitor in our midst.

We have a cat door that leads into our back yard and the kitties love it because they can come in and out as they please all day.  Mies (our other boy cat) is always running in and out.  I don't know how but that cat knows exactly when 5 pm rolls around because he usually comes flying through the cat door just when Dan puts out the canned food.  Last month, Mies didn't show up for a few days.  We combed the neighborhood but we couldn't find him.  I even slept in the living room waiting for him one night.  One day he just strolled back in through the cat door as if nothing was wrong.  I grabbed him and hugged him (which he totally hated) because I was so relieved that he was alright.  He stuck around the house for a few days and we figured that he may have been locked in someone's garage or something for those few days.  Mies and I also have a morning ritual.  He loves evaporated milk and I put it in my coffee every morning.  So, I pour a little evaporated milk onto a saucer for him when I have my coffee.  He jumps onto the island in our kitchen and meows until he gets him milk.  In other words, this little guy is very spoiled.

He is a really cool cat though.  He likes to play fetch and used to bring one of my hair ties and plop it on a chair or on our bed and one of us would throw it and he would fetch it and bring it back.  Mies stopped doing that when we moved him down to Sierra Vista though because he didn't need us for entertainment anymore....he had the cat door and all the adventures the outdoors provided....  Now I'm very biased but Mies is also extremely handsome.  He has a pink nose and beautiful stripes all over his body.  He also has the softest fur I've felt on a cat.  He likes to curl up his little body and sleep behind our knees.  On more than one occasion, Dan and I have admitted that we love him the best of all the cats.

Since Cracky has moved in, Mies has not had as much attention from his two number one fans.  Of course, after Cracky got shot, Mies has had even less attention.

Dan got a call yesterday from a neighbor about six houses down asking about Mies.  Our cats where collars with Dan's number on them and we occasionally get calls because the cats often lose their collars (they have those "cat safe" collars).  The guy calling Dan, however, hadn't found Mies' collar...he was checking to see whether Mies had been abandoned....wha?!?!  Apparently he had been hanging around our neighbor's house and they  thought he was a great cat and had even let him come into their house.  The neighbor told us that they had also fed him because he seemed hungry....this is the same cat who eats a half can of soft food in a nanosecond almost EVERY night at 5 pm!!!!  Dan told me that the neighbor didn't seem upset at all and they really liked Mies and were sort of hinting that they would adopt him.  Dan went over to talk to them about Mies yesterday and he was in their house....SLEEPING ON THE COMPUTER CHAIR IN THEIR OFFICE.  They have two little girls and they loved Mies because he would let the little girls pet him....this is incredible.  That little rat was acting like some poor homeless cat and our neighbors were taking care of him...he would then run over and eat and sleep at our house (when it was convenient for him).

So....NOW EVERYONE'S GROUNDED in our house and the cat door has been locked.  Last night and this morning there was a lot of complaining but I can't believe Mies went out and found another family.....so devious.