by Angela Barrington

Created on: March 02, 2007   Last Updated: April 30, 2007

It was almost 2 years ago, I finally over came my fear of owning another cat. The first cat I had ever owned being on my own went from a loving environment to disaster about 9 years ago. I had became very close to a cat I had taken in at about 8 weeks and only ended up having him for about 2 months. What went wrong still goes unanswered today. He was your average little playful kitten who was at night time a big sook. He would climb onto my pillow each night and curl up to my head for comfort. After about 2 weeks of enjoying this kitten, I started to notice signs that said something was a little weird about this kitten. All of the sudden he thought he was Tarzan or something and would jump from a high point in the room straight to the top of ones head and claw that person for all it was worth! He started to try and rip my drapery down, try to sleep on my newborn babies face at night, growl at everyone that walked through my door as though he was a watchdog of some type and nobody except myself could touch him. He attacked everyone else.

One day, I went to the grocery store and when I had come back, something was not right! There was no growling at the door and no sign of my cat! The curtains were ripped right to the floor and there was a huge hole in my screen door that lead to my patio. (this was 2 stories in the air) I started to call for my cat frantically as he was nowhere in site at all. Suddenly my phone rang. I answered it without knowing that this phone call was going to be a nightmare for me. It was a friend of mine who worked at a call center for numerous businesses. She asked me if I had seen my cat and I had told her that he was nowhere. I explained that I had just gotten back and my cat was gone. She replied that the S.P.C.A. had my cat in their custody as there had been a phone call made to animal control and she took the report. It was a mom of a 12 year old girl who lived in my building telling my friend that her 12 year old seen a lady with my description and my address, throw the cat from the patio and hurt the cat. She claimed that the girl took this cat into her bottom floor apartment to save the cat and need help from the S.P.C.A. She also told them that the lady who threw the cat should be charged with maximum penalty and they would willingly testify against the lady. Since my cat was missing, both my friend and I panicked because all in the report described myself, my location in the building, and my cat as he had distinct markings.

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