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March 20, 2002

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Chocolatte, the Cat of the Day
Name: Chocolatte
Age: One year old
Gender: Female
Kind: Siamese
Home: Hesperia, California, USA
 
   This is my cat Chocolatte. She is a beautiful blue-eyed chocolate point or seal point Siamese according to my cat expert neighbor. Chocolatte is about one year old and lives with our family in Hesperia, California. Chocolatte came to us from a coworker of my husbands. It turns out that Chocolatte belonged to his girlfriend, who left... another story. He was not home enough and she was lonely. My husband brought her home and she settled in fast. She did not hide or try and run away from us. She was very friendly and just beautiful!

    On Tuesday, August 7, my daughter Danyelle's birthday, we noticed that she was gone. We had the house closed up because the A/C was running, so we could not understand how she snuck out! We were worried because we live in the high desert of southern California and there are coyotes and loose dogs that run around the neighborhood. Chocolatte was gone for four days. I started to believe the worst had happened. Early Saturday morning while I was checking e-mail, I say my husband streak outside to the back yard. He whispered to me, "She's back!"

    I could not believe it, there she was, walking alongside a planter! She was spooked by us running out towards her and started to run to the next door neighbors yard. But I had a trick in the refrigerator. We has some leftover salmon. I took the whole plate out to my husband while I tried to get my dogs settled down. She came to him and started to munch out on the salmon. She was thin and scared. We brought her inside and she ate like a pig, drank like a camel and slept! I don't know how she survived those four days outside in the heat of 100º or more with out much food or water and animals that would much like her for a meal! We went out and bought her a new bed and some treats to show her how lucky she is to have a loving home. (Can you really bribe a cat?) We hope she doesn't give us a scare like that ever again!
 

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