This drama was shared partly with some of you but now its getting so incredibly ridiculous funny I had to post it here.

Act 1:

back story:

somehow (perhaps when a furnance repair guy left our back basement door open for HOURS while he tried to fix the furnace) a cat got into our basement. the thing has been stuck down there something like 3 weeks but it wasn’t until recently that we all figured out what the weird noises were. I am the ONLY one who has seen said cat.

no really. it must like me
I hate it as it freaks me out to have a stray cat in the basement. I don’t know why it just does. it runs away when I see it but still, going down to do laundry has been driving me crazy,.

it has a creepy bad weird moaning it does.

here is the story of what is happening now that we know for sure there is a cat and attempted to do something about it. for fun.

yours and not mine, but still….

(taken form an email I sent Luke)

ahem

The cat is not (our town’s) animal control’s problem.

some nice cat  lady with a non profit organization helps deal with ferrel (sp?) cats

she does this by providing have a heart traps

and scheduling the cat to get spayed/neutered
which basement cat now has an appointment to be fixed

for TUESDAY (note: it was a friday at the time)

so in the meantime

the cat has a cozy litterbox and food downstairs

and then it can be captured monday night

tuesday morning said nice lady will come get cat in the trap

she will have kitty neutered

she will release kitty back into the wilds of somerville to live out its grand existence

and then, if we want we can participate with hippy cat lovers everywhere by building an OUTDOOR shelter for the bleeping thing as it will return to this neighborhood at some point as apparently ferell cats make areas their hood and chill there. (seriously she told the  upstairs neighbors/friends/ landlords who share the basement with us, all about how to make an outdoor shelter for it. no really she did)

hopefully it got in when the furnace guy was here and not through some gaping hole in the wall or window and doesn’t feel the need to return here after its neutering.

and there you have.

oh ps

the weird creepy moaning is the cat looking for a mate. which is one more reason I am not going down to get my laundry until I have to.

ewwwwww

Act 2:

The night before basement cat was supposed to be trapped and taken to have kitty surgery (which the upstairs neighbors will be making a $60 donation to make happen, how nice for them) the nice cat lady informs the upstairs neighbor that the cat will be returned to our basement to recover.

WHAT??!!!

She goes on to explain that during the kitty’s recovery time, someone will need to change the kitty’s bandages and keep kitty fed and watered.

oh but don’t worry. kitty can live in the trap during this time. (since if you will remember, it is a STRAY ferell cat)

Nice neighbor lady explains that she and her family are about to take a trip away and she won’t be here to play kitty nurse.

oh no problem says crazy cat lady, “I can instruct the downstairs neighbors (that’s US) in how to care for the cat.”

At this point, nice neighbor friend, wanting us to remain friends, decides to postpone the kitty surgery until she returns to be the kitty nurse.

to a cat we DON’T WANT and NEVER asked to have as a friend.

we should have tried a wee bit harder to coax the thing back outdoors, don’t you think?

oh but now people, it’s too late. kitty somehow has become our basement pet, having food delivered to it twice daily right next to the trap so it gets used to seeing said trap and will, apparently, wander right in when the trap is set sunday night.

that is, unless the crazy cat lady has left out more VERY IMPORTANT information.

while the men folk have other ideas of how to solve our problem, nice neighbor lady (who is a very compassionate and merciful person) feels that there would be repercussions from crazy cat lady should the cat “disappear” all mafia style.  or if say, we just coax it back into the wild (because we are not evil, we’re just not homeless cat lovers).

Oh did I mention once basement cat is nursed back to normal we CANNOT release him until we have built him (her? who knows) an outdoor cat shelter?

I didn’t? must have slipped my mind