Today officially gets to live.

[kyrielle]

...by the skin of its teeth, but it does. I applied the latest iOS update to my iPhone and it turned it into a brick - dumped it in restore mode. I went into AT&T (they were closer than the Apple store) and they fixed it - to factory default, but that's all *I* could've done too, except for *me* it wasn't working.

Now trying to restore data.

But when I got back from that, Scott told me he'd seen Apple in the back yard. She'd been unwilling to approach him, and when he approached her she ran and either jumped the fence or ducked under the playhouse, he wasn't sure which.

So I took my (late, thanks to the phone) dinner of garlic-butter-shrimp out there to eat, and called and made chirping noises and rubbed my fingers together, right next to the playhouse. She came right to me, ignored the shrimp, and demanded petting. I petted. Then I grabbed and took to the house while she struggled to get loose.

She is safe inside the house, and as far as I can tell is unhurt. Should probably still get her checked by a vet next week. Ideally I'd isolate from Ray until we knew she didn't pick up anything, but I barely managed to hold on to her until we were in the house, so that was not happening.

Nonetheless, she doesn't even appear to have any mats in her fur. And...if she hid under the playhouse for the sprinklers and rain she may not have wandered much at all.

And she's BACK.

Comments

[canyoncat.livejournal.com]

So glad she is home save and sound!

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so glad to hear that. :D

I'm so glad for you

[vixter.livejournal.com]

and Apple. I hope she remembers this.

We had a timid indoor cat once. We would let her out under supervision every once and a while so she would know a little of the outside.

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

Very pleased to hear that you have Apple back, apparently safe and sound.

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

Oh I am so very glad to hear this. I thought of you all day yesterday.

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad she's home. And now you're probably experiencing the same mixed emotions I have when a dog has gotten loose...on the one hand, you want to hug and cuddle her because she's home, but on the other hand you want to strangle her for putting you through that :)

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad for you!