Middle of the night scare, and other infuriating things

[elusivek]

A couple nights ago, in the middle of the night, I heard a lot of mewing and mewing and mewing. I woke up once, but the mewing sounded so far away, that I figured it was some street cat. I turned around and went right back to sleep.

Then I got woken up again by insistent mewing. I saw up, and looked out the window and saw the silhouette of a cat OUTSIDE of my window. The photo was taken a day later with the cat INSIDE.

So someone must have had accidentally locked Nutmeg out in the verandah at bedtime. I also have no idea how she went to my window. While my window is practically just adjacent to the verandah wall, but there is no "walkway" connecting the two. Nutmeg must have climbed over some pipes, or she might have just jumped from the verandah ledge to my room window, which is scary, because I'm 5 floors up. She was practically stuck, she couldn't turn around (no space), she couldn't step back.

I had the fright of my life. I couldn't open the right side window because that would push her off the window ledge. I removed the plants so that i could open the left side window and let her in. Her tail was all puffed up, not yet calmed down, I suppose. She slept very well the following day. Guess the fright tired her out.

As for the infuriating thing, Hong Kong is going to kill around 2000 hamsters. A staff, a client, and some hamsters tested positive for COVID in one of Hong Kong's pet shops, and so the way to deal with it is to euthanize ALL hamsters in pet shops that were imported between sometime mid December to now... and if anyone had bought a hamster from pet shops within that period, they are encouraged to submit the animal to the control office so that they (government) can kill them too.

Crazy!

I don't see them killing off all the HUMANS that got it!

Comments

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Poor thing. I'm glad there was a happy ending for both of you.

[ganimede]

Poor Nutmeg! That must have been very scary for both of you.

I heard about the hamsters in Hong Kong, it's so bizarre. I had no idea that they could catch Covid or pass it on to humans. It seems like such an extreme reaction though.

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

And to think Trumpers out here think MASK requirements are government tyranny.

Of course, we also have 800K dead of COVID-19 but never mind that

[imogen-blue.livejournal.com]

Poor baby. that must have been an awful night. Good thing you're a light sleeper or you just have mum-sense.

Nutmeg was our brushtail possum's name. His fur was the colour of nutmeg. 😁

That's just wrong. It's just jumping at shadows. So very cruel.

[blastofserenity.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, that hamster news is horrid. Like hamsters could have easily been quarantined for a period if they were that concerned about it. ;_; That breaks my heart.

I'm glad Nutmeg is ok! That is certainly a frightful situation.