Scabby Scooby Doo, the Machiavellian pussy cat that has taken residency in my garage has been found alive, hungry and well. This is good news for Mrs Sensible, me and all cat lovers of the world.
Scobby Doo the sweet, loveable, handsome, scabby white cat who has been missing since Friday morning, has been found in Luigina’s upstairs bedroom. Yesterday as we were walking towards Luigina’s house, Mrs Sensible said “did you hear that” No, what was it? “Shhh!” she demanded “I just heard Scooby Doo meowing” Without another word Mrs Sensible warbled SCOOOOOBBBBYYYYY DOOOOOOOOOOO WHERE ARE YOOOUUUUUU?
Honest I am not kidding, she really shouted it. We then heard a faint Meow, and Mrs S pointed at Luigina’s upstairs window and said look he is there. While Mrs Sensible went running down to Luigina’s vegetable patch (Luigina spends her life down there digging holes) I went running in search of my camera to catch the wonderful rescue for posterity.
It seems that Scooby Doo had given up trying to enter my house and decided to enter Luigina’s house and in the fine tradition of Goldilocks And The Three Little Bears, he had fallen asleep in one of the bedrooms. Luigina had then closed the bedroom door and locked the cat in. At sometime over the past 5 days, Scooby Doo tried to escape from the room by breaking the window, he then climbed through the hole in the glass and found himself stuck between the window pane and the shutter. Don’t ask me how a cat can break a pane of glass, I really don’t know.
I have to add here, that Luagina was very ill during the winter and is sleeping in one of the downstairs rooms, she is also a little deaf so she didn’t hear Scooby smashing the window or meowing to be let out.
While I was taunting photographing the cat from outside, Mrs Sensible, Luigina and Gilda the incredibly fat but short-legged dog all ran upstairs to rescue Scooby Doo. Mrs Sensible said “Scooby had behaved himself whilst he was incarcerated in Luigina’s house” She said “Apart from breaking the window and peeing in the corner of the room, he hasn’t left any little or big parcels for Luagina to clean up.”
Despite being locked up for 5 days without food or water, Scooby Doo was reluctant to leave the house, I could hear Mrs Sensible ordering the cat to “go, out, out, scat cat” I took the photo on speed mode and it is still a little blurred, so you can imagine how fast he finally exited the house.
After leaving the house, Scooby ran over to my little home-made fish pond (If you want one of these little ponds for your garden please send me your orders. The first order will be supplied with 5 fish and a white cat) and drank 2 liters of water. He then celebrated his release from captivity with a little victory roll.
At the moment Scooby Doo won’t leave us alone. He is permanently stuck to either my left ankle of Mrs Sensible’s right ankle. Four times we have had to remove him from the car, when we needed to go out.
So alls well that ends well.
PS. This cat is still free to a good home or even a bad home. Although Mrs Sensible says he is staying.
WHEYHEYHEYYYYY! Best news I had all week 🙂
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Well, I suppose so. I will have to go and buy some more cat food and work out how we will tell the neighbors that their cat is moving house.
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The latter will be far more complicated than the former… good luck! Looking forward to the next post 🙂
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We have fed and garaged him for the past 4 months, I suggested we just catnap him. Mrs Sensible wants to sit down and discuss the options with the neighbors.
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Very pleased Scooby has been found, I was a little worried for him.
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Mrs Sensible was worried, she thought he had gone to meet his maker. The best quote of the day goes to Luigina, she said “He will be alright, he is probably living with someone else” Little did she know how right she was, Scooby Doo had been living with her!!!!!
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I want to know…who is responsible for paying for the broken window?
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I will tell Luigina to send the bill to the scabby white cat that lives in my garage, or the neighbors across the road who should be feeding and looking after him.
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poor thing! Glad someone had sharp hearing or the cat would still be there! 🙂
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Ohhhhhh !!!! Mrs Sensible has better hearing than an owl. She can be 10 meters away and still hear me whisper to a friend “Ok, go on just one more little glass of grappa”
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ahahahah! poor Pecora…! 😀 don’t worry… she too will become old 😉
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Have you met that famous English Italian yet? Angelo Saxon.
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lol, not yet. Over here every Tom, Dick or Harry is called Marco, Giuseppe or Mario
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My prayers have been answered! Now let that cat in the house and take him with you when you move.
Per favore!….Oh, right, you don’t speak Italian….Mrs. S will understand.
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Per favore ???? I will search in my dictionary. To be honest i think we will take him with us. There are 2 Dobermans and a Jack Russel for him to play with near the new house.
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Fantastic news …well maybe not for you but I delighted for Mrs Sensible. :)Another cat resurrection!
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He had a little party last night in our garage, I went down to see if he was alright and there was a hairy black cat sat next to him.. Madness utter madness.
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He told his friends about the tin of salmon he was awarded upon his miraculous return. Party central. 🙂
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Cookie is now very happy as well–Scooby Doo is yours and you are his—time to face the facts 🙂
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I think Cookie needs a new white cat, or maybe a black hairy animal that was sat in the garage with Scooby Doo last night. I have drawn the line at feeding another cat.
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Cookie already has 2, much to the chagrin of mr cookie who would be most happy with 0—alas, Scooby Doo is your “rescue” pet—and you mr pecora nera may be redeeming yourself with this good deed of rescuing a poor helpless victim of neglect, that you are now nearing peocra bianco status!!
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I think the problem is, it is difficult living with another black sheep, even if it is only a scabby white cat that lives in the garage.
One black sheep is enough. I will ask Mrs Sensible who was first into the bedroom to rescue Scooby, with any luck it was Gilda. He can have the ownership of the cat. It would solve lots of problems.
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scabby scooby is now yours forever. you saved his life and he is indebted to you forever. ancient asian tradition.
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Scabby White Cat that drops squiggy presents in garage shall receive bucket of water. Ancient Yorkshire Proverb.
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Whoop whoop whoop!!! I’m soooo happy for you. Go on, PN, let him in. You know you want to. If you don’t, remember that if he can break windows, he can do it to get inside as well as to escape 🙂
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He hasn’t got a cat in hell’s chance of living in the house (sorry for the pun) Mrs Sensible keeps threatening to give him a bath so that he is clean and can come in the house. It might be worth it just to watch, photo and blog about the washing procedure.
I have no idea how he broke the window, I know the glass was very old, her house dates from the 1800’s; after 4 days Scooby must have just thrown himself at the window and then jumped through the hole. The stupid cat was then stuck between the wooden shutters and the rest of the glass.
Next time I de-flea him, I will search him for a glass cutter or little hammer.
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I suspect that Scooby dresses in lycra leggings with his knoickers over the top at night. Super Cat.
Washing a cat is a highly dangerous activity – it ranks at the same level as sharing a knife and fork with Hannibal Lector. If you take photos you may well bear the wrath of a lacerated and soaking wet wife.
You de-flea him? Try those squeezy one dose doo-dahs they sell at the chemists. You just squeeze the stuff at the nape of Scooby’s neck once every couple of months, and hey presto, flea-free zone.
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Thanks, we bought a pack of those squeezy doo dahs flee killers. The cat now has a black spot on his neck were he went and rolled in the mud to get rid of the liquid 😦 Stupid cat!!
I might encourage Mrs Sensible to wash the cat, I could probably sell tickets to the event.
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This post is Great!
Both for the photos and the story.
Luckily , Mrs Sensible has that very sharp hearing…..
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Thank you. I decided not to get involved in the rescue attempt, it was more fun taking the pictures. Sometimes it is NOT good that Mrs Sensible has good hearing. I find myself in all sorts of trouble when she has heard me muttering to myself.
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Hooray!
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Yeh (lots of enthusiasm) hip hip hooray, the scabby white cat has come home to torment me.;)
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Wow, what a happy ending. Just imagine that poor cat, breaking a window!!! He’s a legend. (I lit a candle for him in a nice church in Venice.)
Now, about your alleged cat allergies. What form do they take, and can’t Mrs Sensible and the pharmacist drug you in some way???
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Dear Doctor,
I have 2 allergies cats, they make me sneeze and pain, I really don’t like pain. I try to stay away from Cats, dentists, nurses with needles and tall ladders.
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PS I couldn’t go 5 days without the things that Scooby Doo somehow did … food and parcels.
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Listen, I know this cat. Had he been locked up in one of my bedrooms there would be more squiggy parcels than you could shake a stick at.
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Phew! I can tell you’re relieved… I can’t believe he managed to break a window though. How does a cat do that? Throwing a tiny, cat-sized brick? Anyway, he’s yours forever now!
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Oh yeah, I am ecstatically happy, I was so overcome with emotion I needed to sit down and open a bottle of wine. Pesky Cat.
I think on day 4 he must have thrown himself at the window. I am sure he must have heard us calling him during the past week (Mrs Sensible shouted at the top of her voice and I kind of muttered here kitty kitty kitty under my breath) . Luigina only goes into her upstairs rooms on really sunny days to open the windows. On Friday the weather was fab and that is when he entered the room. In the evening she shut the window, shutters and door she never saw the cat….
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HURRAH! That’s one helluva cat – be careful PN, treat him well or he’ll be breaking more than your windows… 🙂
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This is what I am afraid of. When I am trying to carry a huge bucket of wood for the fire, the cat weaves in and out of my legs. Like one of those little performing dogs you see at a circus. One of these days I will trip over him and break a leg.
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Aw, great news! All’s well that ends well! 🙂 And I know you’re secretly happy to have him back!
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Oh very happy he is back (he says as he un-crosses his fingers)
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I nearly had a panic attack reading this post about Scooby’s grand adventure of being stuck :O without food :O for 5 days :O . On a side note, you could earn big bucks being an action photographer!
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Hooray! I’m glad he’s turned up (and I suspect you are too?). The photo of him looking out from behind the shutters is great, and very poignant – poor Scooby Doo.
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It was really funny, as Luigina, Mrs Sensible and the fat dog made their way upstairs, I was outside calling Scooby Doo and taking his picture. He was meowing like crazy; probably saying “Oye! Stupid Englishman, put the camera down and come and release me or I will drop a squiggy one in your garage”
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Poor Scooby Doo – I think he might have been saying “Let me out, please let me out, I will love you for ever, and never leave your side”.
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It is possible, highly unlikely but possible.
Mrs Sensible talks to him and tells him what to do in Italian and I shout at him in English. I wonder how many other bi-lingual cats there are?
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Poor Scooby Doo, tsk tsk! When he was released he ran around the garden. Then ran at Gilda and licked her. It is just madness here, why do these things happen to me?
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Do you know what it is that Mrs Sensible tells him in Italian? Just saying… 😉
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Oh she says things like,
Hello Scooby Doo, you are looking wonderful today, no don’t climb in the car, tsk tsk Scooby you are not supposed to climb into the car….. how are you today Scooby.
While I say things like. GET THAT SCABBY WHITE CAT OUT OF MY CAR.
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Poor Scooby (oh, there I am saying that again) – he must be so confused! 🙂
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Oh! This is super news! Scabby white cat spends 5 days incarcerated and escapes to lovely freedom! 🙂 I’m happy he made it back home to you, he’s really a very handsome kitty. Meow.
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I can send him your way…..
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I’d love him but my husband would kill him. 😦
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Yay ! Scooby’s home !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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si si, yahhh.. uffa
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Great ending. You have your scabby cat home, wish my story ended like that. But even if Cloro did turn up… salmon? Salmon be buggered, he’d get a handful of frozen mince, and less ceremony. But I’d be overjoyed to see him.
AV
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Cloro might still turn up, there is a comment from someone who’s cat turned up weeks and weeks later.
Will you get another cat? I think Scooby would like your lifestyle and the warm weather. But he won’t be impressed with frozen mince
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Awesome news!! I’m so pleased he was found safe and well. 🙂
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It is great isn’t it. I was trying to remind myself how much I missed him early this morning when he was wailing outside the bedroom window to be fed
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I’m so pleased you realised just how much you missed him 😉
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Oh happy day!!
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Phah!! He is back and causing trouble, he needs an extended holiday, where do you live?
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He’ll never catch me. I dart back and forth between homes in Toronto and Vegas. I’m dodgy that way.
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THANK GOD. I was hanging on the edge of my seat this whole week!
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I think Scooby is down to 5 cat lives. He he leaves me a squiggy one in the garage he will be down to 4 cat lives.
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I feel very happy, that you found the beautiful Scooby alive. He will stay forever with you, you just need to accept that fact. You saved his life.
Please create a safe place for him in your new house, those dogs don’t use to be cat-friendly, but maybe, we can hope. He has his problems about hiding, know that from my own white cats.
Irene
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I was worried about that cat. And, admit it, you were, too.
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I am not admitting anything. that Scabby white cat is a pesky animal. 🙂
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I think you should change his name to Scabby Chic.
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Cool idea, better still, “Scabby White Cat that lives with someone else”…..
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ANNOUNCEMENT. Lost form sight: PN, Englishman last seen in bloggoland with wife, tin of salmon and scabby white cat. Will come running immediately on hearing cork being removed from wine bottle, chinking of wine glasses and rustle of Walker’s crisp packets. Please inform MM of any sightings – she misses his posts. Thank you.
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Hi MM, Thanks for the nudge, it has been a little manic around here. I have joined forces with an Italian and we have started a small business together… I just love Italian bureaucracy, no wonder the young don’t try to open a business in Italy. I also have low energy levels, because Mrs Sensible has hidden my stash of wine, and I write better with a glass of wine in my mitts. (she means business with the diet.)
I will upload a post over the weekend, I promise.. and thanks again for the nudge.
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MWM(Meandering with Misha) also misses the posts!
But maybe they are caught up in packing and moving and/or negotiating the price with the neighbor for that scabby white cat.
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We are trying to negotiate for someone else to look after the scabby white cat, I dread the thoughts of it meowing outside my bedroom window at 6.00 am…. Normal service will be resumed over the weekend and thanks for the nice comment
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Glad Scooby was found not too traumatised by the experience! 🙂
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It was so funny. When I asked Luigina if she had seen Scooby Doo she said “He will be alright he has probably moved to another house” She was 100% correct he had moved into her house….
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Completely by accident it seems! He obviously missed you and Mrs Sensible going by all the leg weaving he did when you found him! Face it PN he’s adopted you 🙂
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I think he just wants us because we feed him. He is ever so slightly, very very strange. I have a video of him to upload.
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Heh heh I’ll look forward to seeing that!
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