Last night, Neo the Cat decided to take off. Since it's part of his bad habits, he can only go out in the backyard tied up to a long leash, which doesn't seem to bother him. The problem is that last night the leash got untied, and Neo was left wandering in the nature dragging a 20 foot long rope, with a strong possibility to get caught on a fence or a tree. Hoping to catch Neo before it ends up in a very precarious position, I took the kids and went search the neighborhood. That's how we met a whole bunch of people living on the street behind our house, and Kyan and Anastasia had a blast on the adventure, meeting new people and knocking on doors to go check in everybody's backyard. They even got some chocolate along the way. Not much luck finding Neo, though...
I kept on looking outside all evening, in case Neo would show up. In the process, I bothered a garden snake hidden in the wild rose bush, a skunk roaming behind the shed late in the night, heard a family of opossums by the fence, and went in the backyard at 2am to check on suspicious noises to find three raccoons perched on a tree. Given the mess we sometime find in our garden, I suspected we had a few nocturnal visitors, but never imagined it to be such a popular spot (it's a rather small garden). And, of course, still no cat.
That silly Neo finally showed up in the morning, and with all the possibilities to get trapped, got stocked with its leash on our steps to the garden. Lucky, lucky cat, but no more roaming for Neo for a while...
As for the pictures, I didn't take them but am hoping to be lucky enough one of these days to have a camera handy at the right time...
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