Lost and Found

Well we had a little excitement tonight. In our little backyard we have a chain link fence that encloses the majority of our backyard. We normally let Zoe out there to roam around and "hunt". Zoe isn't the outdoor cat, and frightens very easily. She was out there tonight while I was cutting the grass. We were distracted by our lawn mower acting up and figuring out dinner plans and before we knew it, we had lost track of Zoe. We were back tracking our steps and I told Ryan the last thing I knew, she was in the back. We looked high and low for her. We looked in closets in the house and behind every closed door. She was nowhere to be found. She is all white, so she normally stands out like a sore thumb amongst all the grass, but we still didn't see her. By this time I was really getting worried. I got in our car and drove up and down the street a couple of times. There are stray dogs that roam around from time to time and we had seen one earlier tonight, so that made us even more worried. Zoe has no claws so she couldn't defend herself if she had to. I decided to drive in the field behind our house looking for her. Ryan flagged me down in the field, and told me he found her in the brush. Needless, to say we were so relieved. Its funny how an animal can be such a big part of your family. I know she's just a cat, and most people hate cats, but to us she was our first baby and we don't know what we would do if we lost her. We love our Zoe girl!