Feb 16, 2008

I got another call from the same area - so that is three separate sighting. The last caller said okay to a camera - which made me feel better since otherwise I would have had to call the first person back and that makes me nervous. The funky thing is that this home's backyard merges into the first caller's backyard. So I am confidant that the cat I will attract is the one that the first person saw. Whether it is the one the second person saw is unknown. But the travel time to the second house is half a mile so the area of the sightings is about .4 miles so there is a good chance it is the same animal. I hope. The second caller seemed so confidant.

I also got a call from someone one street over from the last sighting in Nov. She didn't see the head so has no idea if it is Roy but let me put up a camera.

My third camera showed me 5 different cats - including the same one I got the picture of three weeks ago! This camera is on the same road as the first one so I did mapquest for distance - 0.54 miles. I did not realize the territory could be THAT big.

Feb 15, 2008

Today I received a call from a lady who saw a cat crossing the street that looked like Roy. She said she got a good luck at the face and said it looked like the cat on the posters. She also said he had a pure black body but wasn't sure about the feet. I am not too worried about it as she probably wasn't paying that much attention and I don't think his feet are that white anymore. She was calling from the same area of a previous call so tomorrow I will be knocking on doors and hopefully someone will let me put up a camera. The weather is supposed to get bad later this weekend so I am really hoping I can get it set up tomorrow.

I put up a camera today - I don't really think it is Roy but I have to try. As I walked up to the door there was this weird statue of a calico - the hair was all matted - like it was dread locked. When I got to the door the head turned and meowed at me - it had been so still until that point I thought it wasn't alive. After I got permission to put up the camera I petted the cat. She followed me to my car! I think if the cat doesn't belong to the house I might take her. Cats shouldn't have dreads. I would put her in a no-kill but she was so friendly and she really wanted into a house that I figure a shelter would be better no matter what. I would get her cleaned up first - she might need to be shaved if the dreads are too much to wash out.

Feb 13, 2008

I got two more calls today. One for across the highway and one for further up S. Ohioville. The second call seemed very sure that the cat that was in her yard was Roy. She said he looked exactly like the picture and she had gotten close enough to pet him so she got a good look. I was so excited I forgot to ask questions to see if the rest of the body matched. I asked about putting a camera in each location. The one across the highway said yes so i will put one up soon. The other one said she was not able to answer that - she had to ask the owner of the house. I told her to call me if she sees the cat again (she last saw him a few nights ago) and to let me know about the camera. She said she definately would be in contact with me again.

I would have put the camera out today but there was heavy snowfall last night, and then rain this morning. My entire driveway is a huge slush zone- way too much to shovel since it is so heavy. I tried to drive out but my car must be on a block of ice because I couldn't even get it to budge. I hope by tomorrow I can get out.

Feb 12, 2008

The lady called back today. I was going to put out the camera but she said not to bother. She got a good look at the cat and there was no way it could be Roy.

I did get another call about a cat down S. Ohioville - I will be checking out that area tomorrow. Based on the description it might be a camera only place - doesn't seem like there are any houses there.

Feb 11, 2008

I took the camera down last night - the temp was supposed to go down to 10 degrees so I couldn't leave it there. There is no point in destroying equipment for the chance of a picture. I will put it back up again when the temps are better - which should be in a few days according to weather.com

Feb 10, 2008

I got a call from someone who saw a black and white cat walk out of her yard. She only saw his back so doesn't have a good description and it sounds like more white then Roy had but I didn't want to take chances so put a camera in her yard. I tried to put up more posters but failed - the first went up no problem. The second I got halfway before I was unable to get enough force to get the top half up. The third one I couldn't get the staples in - i guess the wood is too frozen. I hope it isn't so cold that my camera breaks.

Feb 9, 2008

The first batch made it to houses because i got two calls today. One lady wanted to know how I got her address and one lady to let me know she saw a black and white cat a few months ago. I will be putting up posters in that area tomorrow.

When I did the final count of postcards yesterday I discovered that I was 9 short. Since I had been sending them out as I stamped them it will be impossible to tell which 9 are gone. I figure as long as one of them is not feeding Roy that shouldn't be a big deal but I did a search of some of the streets in my immediate area and couldn't find them in the list! The areas where I had a positive sighting are not in my address list! Those are the houses I wanted to hit most of all. I will need to look further to see if maybe they have a second official name (although I doubt it). If not then I will need to go to a different site and get a second list and compare. grr... this is not what I wanted to do. I am not exactly an expert in excel so searching for missing areas is not going to quick or easy.