05-11-2014, 05:50 AM
Mahalo Mr. Stoddard!
As you and several friends and neighbors told me: "He may yet turn up on his own."
HE DID!
My panic was caused because he had never taken "a little vacation" before in TEN years (guess it was time). Even last year, we went to the mainland and he never left the lani. Had a friends daughter look after him, it was her "first job"! Where ever he went, he had an adventure, was covered in "cinder sand"! Now that he has "tasted" adventure, will have to rethink our "relationship". Time to dig out his collar with name, address and phone number. His survival in the "wild" comes into question. He, along with his "housemates", loved a $1,000 couch as a "scratching post", no matter what we tried. Nail caps, tape, sprays; had "declawed" cats before I learned that the procedure was an "amputation" and not "just" a claw removal! So, they had a "new" procedure, a Tendonectomy, they then cannot extend their claws. Very successful, just need to clip their nails when necessary. His "housemates" have been gone for several years, so maybe he was following a new "buddy". Dogs, cars, pigs, cats, mongoose, along with "eating something" he shouldn't (almost lost him to liver failure from eating a "salamander") are all new concerns!
The ADVENTURE in PARADISE continues!
Mahalo to all, Aloha to all and while I'm here "HAPPY MOTHER's DAY!
As you and several friends and neighbors told me: "He may yet turn up on his own."
HE DID!
My panic was caused because he had never taken "a little vacation" before in TEN years (guess it was time). Even last year, we went to the mainland and he never left the lani. Had a friends daughter look after him, it was her "first job"! Where ever he went, he had an adventure, was covered in "cinder sand"! Now that he has "tasted" adventure, will have to rethink our "relationship". Time to dig out his collar with name, address and phone number. His survival in the "wild" comes into question. He, along with his "housemates", loved a $1,000 couch as a "scratching post", no matter what we tried. Nail caps, tape, sprays; had "declawed" cats before I learned that the procedure was an "amputation" and not "just" a claw removal! So, they had a "new" procedure, a Tendonectomy, they then cannot extend their claws. Very successful, just need to clip their nails when necessary. His "housemates" have been gone for several years, so maybe he was following a new "buddy". Dogs, cars, pigs, cats, mongoose, along with "eating something" he shouldn't (almost lost him to liver failure from eating a "salamander") are all new concerns!
The ADVENTURE in PARADISE continues!
Mahalo to all, Aloha to all and while I'm here "HAPPY MOTHER's DAY!