Last Tuesday I mentioned the family cat, Pumpkin, was missing and I’m grateful to everyone who wrote to me since then with thoughts and well wishes and questions of whether or not we’ve found her.

Thanks for all your concern.

Last week my children put up posters (having Pumpkin’s photo and explaining about her tail that’s kinked in 5 places and a number to call if she was found) in our area and we talked with residents, but there was no sign of Pumpkin.

I walked the land and the ravine on our property looking for…well…anything that might indicate what happened to her.

But there was no clue!

On Friday I washed both her food and water dishes and put them on the storage shelf downstairs, and put the bag of food away. (Both kids noticed those changes when they got home from school that day!)

But just in case, I left a bed outside for Pumpkin…on the covered back patio!

(But it was snowing then…and got pretty cold at night…and it’s been snowing pretty much every day since.)

Pumpkin has now been gone a week.

There was no word of her at the SPCA.

So we’ve taken down the posters.

I guess we can pretend she found a home with someone (but I fear she was caught by a coyote). But who knows!

We all miss her.

Our hope has faded.

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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