Topic: The Mother cat

[piersdad]

 

Well the big O E was on we had saved enough money for the family to go to see my son in Switzerland.
We excitedly got out maps and looked at the places we would like to visit.
 Zurich was the top place and the museums and riding in the trams. Ah there is my sons village just a dot a few kilometers from Zurich.
Suddenly I realized that the map coordinates were sort of familiar and a quick look at the map of New Zealand confirmed my suspicions our sons house and our house had the same coordinates minus 180 degrees give and take a few hundred meters or so.
This meant he was exactly opposite us on the other side of the world.
 So to get further away from us he would have to climb a ladder.

Two days to go and our lovely cat a beautiful tortoiseshell cat the mother of countless kittens was very sick. A trip to the vet confirmed our suspicions and sadly she had to be put down to stop her suffering any more.
I buried her in the back garden and placed a cross over her grave.
She was such a lovely cat always came when I called her   with her busy trot and purring meow would come to me and rub up against my legs purring loudly.
How I would miss her now she was gone.
The big trip was on and off to the airport we went, our entire luggage packed out passports o.k.  We settled into the planes seats for the long flight.
Zurich airport at last, weary and excited, we met my son and the grand children we had not met for so long.
The next day was the start of our great explore and I wandered into the back yard and there in the yard was?A tortoiseshell cat exactly like the one we had buried two days ago.   It was a mother cat!
  Without thinking I called out to it the same as I used to do for our recently departed cat and it immediately    with a busy trot and purring meow she rubbed up against my legs purring loudly.
I picked her up and she greeted me like a long lost friend. I thought how nice for my son to have an identical cat to ours.
Now tortoiseshell cats are rare and I asked my son where on earth did you get the cat.
He said. ? It is not our cat she just turned up 2 days ago and we can?t get rid of her but she is so lovely we will keep her if she will stay?

I thought what is the coincidence I bury a cat one side of the earth and an identical cat turns up exactly opposite on the other side of the earth at my sons place.
How deep did I bury that cat?


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[xelasnave]

Now that is weird and as usual reminds me of something.
I too had a great cat. I had to have him put down and was with him until the end. He used to have his favorite little spot under a small bush in the back yard so I buried him there. The next day I was sitting out the back looking over to his spot behind the bushes lamenting his demise. I heard a mewow and out came a cat from the very bushes where I buried old Puss, she looked at me and ran over rubbing around my legs and purring. Do cats really have nine lives I thought. Well the cat stayed on and became my little friend but the strangeness of the event has never left me.
Alex

[sandycampbell]

That's a bit of a spooky story PD, it sounds like your family have a great cat though.

[Cran]

 
I am used to strange coincidences and unexplained mysteries ...
and there is a line I'm planning on using in the storyteller's part of my novel:
I am unable to deny the possibility of miracles

(-this reminds me that I should be getting on with chapter 5  )

[SollyR]

Things that make you go Hmmmm I too have a tortoiseshell mother cat, moreso known as a black tortoiseshell.  Shes about 18yrs old now and when I first got her she was so tiny she fit snuggly into one hand. I also took her brother with me and he was a ginger tabby and I named them Bonnie & Clyde.  Clyde has long gone and Bonnie is affectionately called Bonnie Dump Truck cos shes huge and looks like a wide load.  Love her to bits and dreading the day when her 9 lives is all used up. Maybe someone on the other side of the world gets her if I bury her deep enough too

[piersdad]

yep crans a cat lover too.
dogs have masters cats have staff
Posted on: March 25, 2006, 11:16:22 AMwe havbe 2 cats and last night at 1 am the TV went on and some thing started to surf the stations and then th evolume went up.
i leapt out of bed and was ready to scold my grand daughter who slept in another room and there was th ecat needing the remote with her paws and turning the tv on and surfing the chanels