ShellB: Then and Now
At this time 3 years ago I was preparing to move from California to New York. As part of those preperations, my cats, ShellB and Shorty, moved to New London, Wisconsin. I didn’t know what my living situation would be in New York and I was really allergic to cats, so after living with me for about 3 years, they were going to go live with my parents.
Not long after they moved in my mom began to have allergy-induced asthma attacks so Shorty moved in with my brother in Milwaukee and ShellB moved into a deluxe suite in my parents’ garage. Well, the house that my dad built must not have been deluxe enough for ShellB, who tended to be a bit finicky, and she disappeared. I think everyone feared the worst since my parents live on the edge of a large forest with wild animals and such.. and because ShellB didn’t even like to go outside in the first place.
I knew my parents felt bad about ShellB’s disappearance, but things happen, I was in Manhattan and there wasn’t much I could have done differently – we all just moved on. So when my mom started calling me a couple weeks ago saying that she was seeing ShellB around the yard, I calmy asked her to please lay off the crack pipe. But after a few more calls and emails and some photos she was finally able to take on her digital camera, I’m convinced that it really is ShellB who is hanging around my parents house almost 3 years after disappearing.
She has a different collar so I wonder if someone has taken her in and she’s been living the good life. .. or if she’s toughened up and has been living on the wild side in Bean City.
