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lookout. Two weeks later I heard a great ruckus downstairs in my basement and ran down to find a cat that could be “Adam” sitting on the perch by the cat door. My two cats, Tbm and Sawyer, were very defensive with the unknown visitor. All three were howling and hissing at each other, but the visitor stopped briefly to meow a friendly greeting to me. In the meantime, my cats inexplicably went at it with each other and I had to separate them. In the mayhem that followed, Adam decided he had enough and escaped back out the cat door.

I reported this “sighting” to Ms. Morrison. We both were convinced by my description of the cat I saw in our basement that the visitor was indeed Adam. We once again saw this gray tabby several days later walking by on our deck, but when we opened the door he ran away.

At some point, we decided to set a “Have a Heart” trap for Adam in the front yard and baited it with his favorite food. But the first night the only thing we “caught” was Sawyer, and he was veiy unhappy with us. The following night we decided to keep our cats locked up and place the trap inside the basement cat door so Adam would come in and be caught inside the basement. We taped the cat door open so Adam could smell the luscious cat food at the other end of the trap. Once he came in and set a foot on the trap door, it would shut and he’d be on his way home again! That was our

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