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About ten or so minutes ago, I heard a cat meowing outside, so I went to look, but I couldn't see anything (also there was a dude in car, so I didn't want to look like I was being nosey). I heard the cat meow again after I'd sat down, and it sounded so sad, you guys. I wanted to give it hugs and fusses.

Anyway, when I stopped and thought about it, I thought it sounded somewhat like my previous cat when she was sad (i.e. put in The Box for taking to the vet). Then I looked at the date, and I was like, this is nearly five years to the day since she came home after going missing. And I just checked, and it is. And her meowing sadly is how I knew she'd come back (she turned up on the doorstep completely out of the blue one day after I'd got in from shopping).

And this is kind of weird, because yesterday I'd been looking at pictures of her, and getting sad, because she never looked like she was happy. I hope she was - I hope the four years she had with me and mum were good times for her - but her face always looked so sad and pensive.

I just thought it was kind of weird.

(I strongly suspect the cat I heard was next door's cat, and she was meowing because the front door was open and OH HECK THERE IS A WORLD OUT THERE!)

(Also I looked because it's not been weird for us to get cats in the garden in the past. That's how we ended up with Charlie, and I think some of the neighbourhood cats have seen it as a safe place in the past. Or somewhere they can poop in peace, which I've seen at least one do, thanks cat).