Missing

Candy is missing. I last saw her at 3am Friday when she woke me up to play with my fingers for a few minutes and then curl up in the window behind the bed.

When Karen got up a 5am she didn't see her. After I had been up for a little while Karen asked if I'd seen Candy that morning. I hadn't seen her since I got up.

We searched the house. We searched the yard. We had to leave or be late to work. We figured she'd come back. She's gone out the doggy door and played with bugs and things since we got her.

After work I came straight home to look for her but she still wasn't back at 8:00 when I got home. Karen arrived within the hour and we both searched high and low. We wandered out through other peoples yards and pastures. I followed the creek as far as I could before the marshy area started to take my shoes off.

We gave up after several hours and went back to work that afternoon. We looked again when we got home until it got dark. Then the storm blow in and we were both standing there looking at the wind and rain and crying. So we took flashlights and went back out and looked until neither of us could feel our fingers and toes anymore.

We've called the local shelters and all the neighbors, we have an add coming out in the paper tomorrow.

One of the neighbors told us that his friend who lives not far from here just lost 6 greyhounds to what they think is a large cat of some kind. The lady at the shelter told me that a lot of people in our area have reported missing animals in the last few weeks and that as far as she knows none of them have turned up.

I think this has been about the worst weekend I've ever had.

P.S. We are getting rid of the doggy door, the dogs will just have to adjust.