some of you might remember my cat freddie mercury who went missing in october last year. basically when i moved to LA for a while in october, i left him in the care of a ‘friend’ who completely flaked out on me and never went to pick him up leaving me frantically trying to work out something else from the other side of the world. i had someone else take him in but he was so stressed out by this point that after less than 24 hours in her care he escaped out the door and bolted and had not been seen nor heard of since. i was beyond devastated. i asked another friend to call the animal welfare league for me to update my microchip details as my aus phone had been disconnected when i left for the usa, just in the hope he turned up, but he never did….
until today. yesterday i got a message from a friend saying her friend had told her freddie turned up at the rspca. my friend’s friend had seen on twitter that my ex’s current girlfriend posted something about the rspca rocking up at their house looking for me a few days ago cos they’d been trying to contact me about my missing cat for a while. either my friend didn’t update my contact details like i asked or they somehow still had the wrong ones i dunno but i didn’t get any calls. so last night was a mostly sleepless night full of stress and anxiety wondering if the house call was the last straw and i’d call when they opened in the morning to find out he’d been put to sleep and i was too late. i was a shaking anxious mess when i called this morning but the news was good, other than a wound under his front leg that requires surgery my little boy is alive and well and in their care. i was on my way to the airport within the hour to catch the first available flight back to adelaide and went straight to the rspca where i burst into tears the moment i saw him. he’s with me now at mum & dad’s sound asleep in bed next to me purring his little head off and doesn’t seem even slightly affected by whatever happened to him during the nine months since he disappeared. he’s totally calm and happy and exactly the same cat he used to be. i’ve booked him in for surgery first thing tomorrow morning and hopefully after that he will be 100%
anyway i guess the moral of this story is MICROCHIP YOUR PETS AND MAKE SURE THE DETAILS ARE KEPT UP TO DATE. it was nine fucking months since i saw my little freddie and i had completely given up hope and it was only by a stroke of luck that i found out he had been taken in to a shelter. thank you to everyone at the local rspca and the tea tree gully veterinary clinic for taking such good care of him and their tireless efforts to get in touch with me <3
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some of you might remember my cat freddie mercury who went missing in october last year. basically...
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