Ding, Dingess, Boomy Ding and Chandler Ding. On Sunday, the AC in our apartment went out leaving Julia and the 4 in the sweltering St. Louis heat and humidity.
The AC guy wasn't coming until Wednesday and Julia was going to Denver, not for our baseball trip, but for work, on Tuesday. What to do with the 4? Luckily, the apartment above us is empty and our landlord let us house them up there and turn on the AC so that we didn't become the former proud owners of The 4 Dings.
Julia put them upstairs at 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a mere two hours before she had to get up for the airport. They meowed and cried and were freaking out. Poor things.
Fast forward to Wednesday. I called Meegs to ask her to go check on them since she had down it before and they semi- like her. She called me later to alert me to a problem. Two of them were missing...the original 2...Ding and Dingess. She looked everywhere and in an empty apartment, it didn't take her long. They were not visible felines. Meegs then informed me that the access panel for the bathtub was off and she bet they were inside the wall. She tried to coax them out to no avail and even went back later in the evening to check again. No luck.
You see, Dingess doesn't really care for people so much except for us, even surrogate feeders. She doesn't care. She does what she wants. So she hides. And hide she does...only this time, she had an accomplice.
By this time, Julia, who was already feeling guilty for making them upstairs refugees and then deserting them for the mile high city, had been made aware of the Wall Cats. Being in Alaska, there was little I could do other than ask Meegs for assistance and worry.
Long story short, Julia got home (late of course thanks to American Airlines) and immediately tended to the lost 2. After a mere few minutes of kitten coaxing, the Dingess popped her tortoise shell head up from the hole and chipped at Julia as though it was no big deal and pounced out of the wall. Mr. Ding followed shortly. He was a very kind brother and stayed with her the whole time.
Well, all that is over and those 2 have gotten a stern talking to and are now grounded from Animal Planet for a month.
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2 comments:
You don't know how glad I am that this story had a happy ending! My poor little ones all slept with me last night.
Poor babies! I wonder if the cats could smell your apartment down below and were trying to get back? Notice how love-bug stayed put? Uh huh - that's because he's smart!
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