Hi everyone,
So you probably already know that we are big fans of Simon’s Cat so when we got this story through from his Blog the other day we just had to re-blog it here for you all!
Don’t forget to check out Simon’s crowd-funding campaign for the Simon’s Cat in ‘Off to the Vet’ which we posted earlier last week as well.
Simon’s Teddy Goes Missing post:
A few weeks a go Teddy didn’t come in for his breakfast, which was a little bit odd, as Teddy LOVES his breakfast!
All my other cats were there waiting, but Teddy’s place remained empty. I called him for several minutes but he still didn’t turn up and then I had to go to work. There were a couple of things worrying me.
One, it’s a relatively new area and my cats have moved in to a new big ginger tom’s territory.
The other thing that was worrying me slightly was that it was so hot that I thought if he was trapped in a shed without water he wouldn’t last very long.
The next morning when Teddy was still missing, my wife and I made some missing posters with the photo below and took them up and down the street asking them if they had seen a black cat. We were delighted to find out that our neighbours were really friendly and all checked their sheds to make sure Teddy wasn’t trapped inside.
As it got hotter and hotter I started to worry more and more. So, by the Friday, I was at my wits’ end and decided to take the day off and try to find him. I started to walk around the farmer’s fields at the back of my house. I had never seen Teddy go over there, but I had searched everywhere else and thought it’s the only place left to try.
I started to look in the hedgerows, calling his name and whistling. I searched one field expecting any minute to be shouted at by an angry farmer. Then I found a gap in a hedge and decided to search one more field. At this point I almost turned back because I thought Teddy would never have gone this far! But there was something inside that pushed me on that extra little bit. So after I clawed my way through this hedge, I found myself in a wild unkempt field full of fox and badger pathways in the long grass.
I started to look along a hedge that bordered a road thinking that if a car had hit him I might find Teddy in the hedge. So I walked along, whistling and calling but by this time I had started to give up hope. I crossed the fence and started to walk down the road, calling in to the hedge from the other side and to my absolute amazement heard a very faint “mew” I recognised instantly!
I started to search around, in the hawthorn hedge even now expecting to find Teddy injured but no matter how deep I went in to the hedge I couldn’t find him. It was only then that I realised the mewing was coming from high above. Even though I could hear him, I couldn’t see him. Teddy wasn’t in the hedge but about 14 feet up a tree. I went back around the hedge and there on a branch sat Teddy. I could see straight away that he had been injured on his mouth but I could not reach him to get him down. He was very happy to see me and was chirping his head off! I ran back home and grabbed a ladder from my garage. However, Teddy was too far up the tree for the ladder to reach. After many attempts to call him down had failed, I decided the only way to get him was climb in to the tree myself. So I jumped off the ladder and started to pull myself up the tree hoping that the dead branches didn’t break under my weight.
After a little bit of climbing I finally reached a place that I could sit on a branch and reach Teddy. Teddy at this point was over the moon and I don’t think he’s ever been more glad to see me. I quickly checked him over and found that it was just his mouth that had been injured. At this point I made a gap in the foliage and dropped him down into the long grass. He sat there for a bit, still mewing and then looked back at me with a startled look on his face. It was around then that I realised that I was the one who was now stuck in the tree! I couldn’t see the ladder anymore and was surrounded by a thick hawthorn hedge, 14 feet up an old tree. I didn’t like the idea of jumping down, so decided to swing down and try and find the ladder again with my feet. This I managed to do but got badly scratched in the process.
When I finally got down to the ground Teddy was so tired from his ordeal that he let me pick him up and carry him all the way home without struggling. I still can’t believe I actually found him all that distance away and I’m so glad that I pushed myself to carry on looking that extra field. When we got home I took him off to the vet, who gave him a good checking over. He had a badly cut mouth and tongue, from his run in with the big ginger tom I’m guessing, but apart from that he was absolutely fine. And is now back to his naughty, cheeky self!
After he was safe and sound at home I took another poster around the houses letting everyone know Teddy was okay and was touched to find this picture had been put through my letter box the next day by a little boy up the road. He had drawn Teddy from the photo.
When I was stuck in the tree, I couldn’t believe that I had drawn this exact story five years earlier and had to laugh to myself. I base most of my storylines and gags on real life cat observations, but this one came the other way round with me sketching it first and then it happening for real. That’s true life imitating art!
As seen on Simon’s Cat Blog here. (All photos are copyright of Simon and Simon’s Cat Ltd)
Reblogged this on Linda's wildlife garden and commented:
Awesome and thank you for sharing have a blessed day
Love Simon’s cat so much, that I got myself a day-to-day-calendar for next year – to have 365 Simon’s cat cartoons for a whole year!
And I am very glad, that I have indoor cats … one worry less.
I may have to get one of those calendars myself haha :D. And yeah so glad my two are indoor only apart from the occasional you are home! *rush outside*
the internet may help – I will not name MY source (really, I do not get paid from that onlineshop) though it was not too far from the source of that book I mentioned yesterday.
Hehe ;). Yep I found it 😀
Hi Simon, I enjoyed reading this. I thought the part where YOU were the one stuck in the tree, was hilarious. Great cartoon and I like the reference to life imitating art! Jacqueline
Glad you liked it. If you like his comics don’t forget to checkout his indiegogo campaign 😀
Thank you for sharing this happy story
You are most welcome 🙂
I hate to state the obvious, but this is why cats should either be supervised when outside or be kept inside. I’m happy to know Teddy, though injured, is back home.
I know what you mean. This is why we have chosen two indoor cats. Couldn’t bear the thought of them getting lost or hurt. And Mr mischief is already good at attempting to hurt himself indoors lol *look I’ll jump on top of the door and try to balance over to the wardrobe!!!* xD
I’m glad Teddy is back at home …. can’t imagine a world without Simon’s Cat :O) the picture the boy had drawn for Teddy is super cute, bet it will help him to feel better :o)
I know exactly what you mean! So glad he got back home :). And yep loved the drawing ^^
Adorable post!! One of my cats got locked in a neighbor’s garage, another one got caught in a raccoon trap, (Not fatal, but it was baited with cat food which infuriated me! Once I got my kitty out I threw the !$#%@#&! trap as far back into the idiot’s yard as I could, hoping that they would think that a giant mutant raccoon had done it!) and in the crawl space under a neighbor’s house. On each of these occasions I went through the same hunting rituals Simon did. My cats are now indoor pets. <3
Oh no who would even lay out raccoon traps :(. And yes all these dangers are why our own two are indoor only! 🙂
P.S. My cat, Dylan, looks just like the second one of the three photos on your page. I’m madly, deeply smitten with my two 4 month old babies. As you have already seen on my blog! <3
Yep :D. And the third kitty on our blog is my best friends cat called Mao. Mao and my two have actually met a while ago and surprisingly it all was very civil 🙂
They are all so adorable! Don’t think I’ve ever seen an ugly kitty. Ugly dogs, well yes, there’s even an ugly dog contest. Never will see one of those for cats! I suspect there may be some kitties whose faces only a mother could love (but I doubt it!), but what else are mothers for if not unconditional love. <3
Awwww so true :). But even the grumpy cats are cute <3
Yes, we had a cat name Sassafras (Sassy for short of course) and she definitely was! We kept her son from one litter and her daughter from the next litter (we didn’t quite get the fact that they could get pregnant while still nursing). I think I would be pretty cranky too if I had my children hanging around in the same house for the rest of my life!
Lol you got a point there. I never thought about how they must feel about living with their children forever xD
OMG!! I just read that out to my daughter and our hearts were in our mouths, tears brimming in our eyes. It was only when I got back to my reader that I noticed you had said there was a happy ending!!! *slaps self*
Aaaawwwwwwww! I hope you two are all ok now !!! <3
Yeah, we’re good thanks. We’re just such softies for cats x
🙂
Glad you gave the spoiler or the suspense would have been killing!
Haha. I didn’t want to cause anyone to die from heart attack 😉
I am glad it all turned out well, I’m so happy for you both 🙂
Love this story and your blog. Thanks for following me. If you are on Twitter find me, retweet me then follow. I follow back!
Thank you :). And yes we are on twitter 😀
Suwe glad evewfin’ tuwned out alwight. 🙂
Luv ya’
Dezi
Indeed!