{"id":1741,"date":"2019-09-19T15:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:26:04","slug":"the-stray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"The Stray"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stray<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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The name is Snow…Thunder Snow. You may recognize me, I\u2019m a cat, white and smooth with patches of dark black like a thunder cloud. People say I might be part Siamese. I live in your neighborhood. I\u2019m a bit skittish, so you may want to stay out of my way. I may look cuddly, but you’re never going to get near enough to me to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was minding my own business in my old neighborhood when I was caught. I guess I was yowling too much and wasn\u2019t paying attention. Whoever took me wrapped me up in a towel, threw me into a car and drove away. It was a long drive, or seemed that way; though I was scared, I did what cats do and once I realized my life wasn\u2019t in immediate danger, I just slept.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next thing I know I\u2019m let out and whoever captured me disappeared. So now I\u2019m in your neighborhood. I\u2019ve learned from my mistake. I will never utter a sound again.<\/span><\/p>\n

It took me a while to get my bearings and find myself a shelter. It\u2019s well hidden and no one knows where it is. I also found a local feeding station. There\u2019s a couple that lives in the area that even built me a feeding box. Every morning and evening I go there and there\u2019ll be food waiting for me. They leave me water all year. In the winter it is even heated. I\u2019ve got them trained well. They\u2019ve tried to entice me into\u00a0<\/span>\"\"their house a few times but I\u2019m smarter than that. If the food i<\/span>s in the doorway, I might step in to get a bite, but no way do I stay if either of them comes near me; after all, I\u2019m Thunder Snow. I control my own destiny.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are times when I look in through their glass doorway and imagine myself resting quietly without the hassle of barking dogs and food\/water stealing raccoons, but I still don\u2019t trust them. It\u2019s only been three and a half years here, I gotta\u2019 make sure they don\u2019t have any evil plans afoot. Besides I\u2019m a stray. I\u2019m feral. Domesticate me and then where will I get all my fresh live meat? No\u2013I\u2019ll stay outside. I\u2019ll keep to myself. As I long as I let them keep hoping that I\u2019ll be their cat, they\u2019ll keep feeding me and I can be myself, Thunder Snow the Silent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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