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Cat tricks sitter and escapes while mom out of town, leading to a 4 day search only for the cat to be caught outside owners home by neighbor, cat mom says: ‘She looked out her window and saw him sitting in front of my door just yelling his head off.’

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    "I spent those days without him terrified I'd never see him again."
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    my cat sitter let barleycat escape while i was out of town. i warned her that he's very light on his feet and
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    may follow her down the stairs when she tries to leave. well he got out, and she didn't notice till she came back to feed him and
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    my other kitty again that he wasn't there. i arrived home the next day and she teamed up with
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    me and another cat sitter to find him. she made flyers, the other cat sitter set a trap, and we walked around
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    for hours that evening distributing flyers and looking for him. over the next few days i checked the
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    trap relentlessly. a couple neighbourhood cats got caught in it, but no barleycat. i let my neighbours
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    know, and gave my downstairs neighbours some food and a dish in case they found him. then 4 days later i had just
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    arrived at work when my downstairs neighbour called and said "i think i have your cat." he
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    sent a pic, and that was barley! another neighbour who i hadn't met before was holding him. i rushed home.
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    they put him in bathroom their and fed him while i was driving. i couldn't believe it when i saw him again. he was
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    skinny, but he climbed right into my arms and snuggled me. i put him upstairs in my apartment and unfortunately
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    had to go back to work, but knowing he was home safe lit me up with a thrill i thought i'd never know again.
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    a few days later i finally tracked down the neighbour who found him so i could give her the reward money. she
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    lived across the courtyard. she said she heard meowing and she looked out her window and saw him sitting in front
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    of my door just yelling his head off. she went outside and picked him up and said "are you barley? i think you're barley." then
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    she walked over to a nearby posted flyer to confirm. she knocked on my downstairs neighbour's
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    door since i wasn't there, and they took him in for an hour while i rushed home. i spent those days without
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    him terrified i'd never see him again. to her credit, my cat sitter did own up to her mistake and was fairly proactive about
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    finding him, though not as proactive as i would've liked. she paid the reward money. little barley passed away
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    recently from ly.... ma, but i've always been grateful that i got him back at all. my time with him was just far too short. i still
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    wish i could have those 4 days of losing him back.

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