Oh poor Amy, that must have been hard. Glad she's all right. Cats rule!
Shelly

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:22 PM
Subject: Found Cat


> We have a cat, she is about 8 or 9 years old I think Sandy said, is Amy
that
> old?  Anyhow, Amy doesn't come around upstairs unless it is at night when
> all the dogs are put up because they chase her.  She doesn't like people
> either.  Yesterday, Sandy asked me if I had seen Amy.  She comes up every
> morning, I wake up about 5 o'clock and come out and sit in a rocking chair
> and listen to the news, and she sits on my lap.  In the evenings, when I
> have prayer sessions on the phone, she comes and sits on my lap then, too.
> I told Sandy that I had not seen Amy for at least two days and maybe
three.
> We began looking.  No Amy the cat.  When the grandchildren came home from
> school, they started hunting and found her under our basement stairs.  She
> was clear back as far as she could go and I believe she had gotten trapped
> back there.  We have a bunch of boxes with things stored under the
stairway
> and I don't think she could get out by jumping back up on to the boxes to
> crawl out because there wasn't enough clearance.  We spent about an hour
> removing the boxes and never could quite reach her.  Sandy realized she
was
> missing because none of her food was being eaten.  The boys put her water
> and food bowls back there for her and when my son came home, he helped us
> clear a path so she could come out on her own.  She was very frightened
but
> eventually came out last night.  This morning, when I sat down in my
rocking
> chair about 5:30 this morning, she jumped up and laid down on my lap.  She
> enjoyed the petting I gave her, too.  We thank God He helped us find her.
> she was too far back under the stairs for us to have heard her because she
> has a very quiet meow.
>
> Phil.