'He was gone for 6 weeks—but he never stopped being mine': A lost cat’s escape through a window sparks a tireless search, dozens of posters, and an unlikely rescue from a stranger’s shed

Indoor cats are such a funny lot when you think about it. They are of one of the most formidable species to have ever walked the planet, yet when confined to the constructs of a home they become more timid than a wolf who found itself walking down Wall Street at rush hour. Which is certainly the case for the cat in today's story, who leapt out of his home at the sight of an unwelcomed visitor. Now the visitor was actually welcome in the home, it was just the cat who took to them badly, but what madness is it to ditch your home just because a stranger walked into it.

Regardless, this led to quite the tiring chase by his pawrent who held strong through her six-week whirlwind of worry, until one day she found her fluffy feline fur baby bundled up in a stranger's shed. Minding his own business, supposedly waiting for someone to come find him. You know what on second thought, maybe this cat heard the visitor say something about a big game of hide and seek, and the cat took it too literally…

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Well, that describes an indoor cat rather purrfectly if you think about it. Well, perhaps the scared indoor cat typecast, at least. To be so freaked out by a single visitor coming into your kingdom that you abandon it is classic scaredy-cat behavior. But, alas, it is likely not his fault that he has been wired this way.
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What a lovely ending to a rescue story. Usually getting a hold of the cat is one of the hardest parts and then comes all the vet visits and rehabilitation. But in this case we have a wonderfully cut and dry kind of ending with a well-behaved cat who might just be scared of its own shadow.
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