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Another cool rainy day here 🌧️☔ It's been raining every weekend for weeks now:cautious: Weekdays aren't that much better.

Here's a Leroy story that @Staci & Ivy wants to hear - Leroy came from a breeder on the West Coast. The breeder had a person fly to the East Coast with Leroy. I picked Leroy up from the airport in the evening. Since I don't drive, I took public transportation to the airport. I get Leroy from the person and put him into my brand new soft sided carrier. The airport was confusing and it took me awhile to find where to get the bus back to the subway station (security and other airport personnel were not helpful). Leroy is cranky in his carrier and screaming and clawing at the sides of the carrier. I get on the bus and it makes it way to the subway station, no more than a 10 minute ride. Leroy manages to claw a hole in the carrier and poke his entire head out 😲 He tries to get the rest of his body out but I pushed him back in and kept a death grip on the hole to keep him from escaping. Not good to lose a purebred cat I hadn't owned for an hour and has no ID tags or microchip🫣. We get on the subway and he keeps clawing to get out. I had to call someone and arrange for the person to pick me up at work and drive us home. I only had a flip phone so no Uber app or anything. The subway doesn't go out to where I live. I have to get off at a station and take a bus which at that time of night runs every 40 minutes and it's at least 40 minutes to where I get off and then walk 20 minutes home. Leroy could not handle that much more time in the carrier. Where I worked at that time was near a subway station so I got off and walked to work. I waited in the lobby while Leroy's screaming bloody murder and it echos throughout the lobby😬 I'm still surprised that security didn't come to investigate. Their desk is on the other side of the lobby down a couple steps. We get picked up and head home. I still have a death grip over the hole in the carrier and Leroy's still trying to get out. Half an hour later I get Leroy safely inside his new home and let him out. He bolts out and keeps screaming his head off and literally just bounces off the walls. And it just so happened to be the 1 year anniversary and the exact time of Squishy's passing. I have no idea what Squishy was thinking when he sent Leroy my way. I knew Abys are energetic but Leroy was beyond that 😲 The carrier was't fixable so it had to be discarded. That's why Leroy can only be transported in a hard plastic carrier or contained in someting with hard solid walls. He can claw his way out of soft sided carriers and the like.

Anyone else have a crazy cat story to share?
 
The visual in that story was perfection! Thank goodness he didn't get out. I was curious about him, as he is so unique looking and he has his own satellite dishes with those big beautiful ears! He makes me think of a rare Sphynx with a rare coat and color. One in million! Hope he's feeling better.
 
SqueeM3 said:
Another cool rainy day here 🌧️☔ It's been raining every weekend for weeks now:cautious: Weekdays aren't that much better.

Here's a Leroy story that @Staci & Ivy wants to hear - Leroy came from a breeder on the West Coast. The breeder had a person fly to the East Coast with Leroy. I picked Leroy up from the airport in the evening. Since I don't drive, I took public transportation to the airport. I get Leroy from the person and put him into my brand new soft sided carrier. The airport was confusing and it took me awhile to find where to get the bus back to the subway station (security and other airport personnel were not helpful). Leroy is cranky in his carrier and screaming and clawing at the sides of the carrier. I get on the bus and it makes it way to the subway station, no more than a 10 minute ride. Leroy manages to claw a hole in the carrier and poke his entire head out 😲 He tries to get the rest of his body out but I pushed him back in and kept a death grip on the hole to keep him from escaping. Not good to lose a purebred cat I hadn't owned for an hour and has no ID tags or microchip🫣. We get on the subway and he keeps clawing to get out. I had to call someone and arrange for the person to pick me up at work and drive us home. I only had a flip phone so no Uber app or anything. The subway doesn't go out to where I live. I have to get off at a station and take a bus which at that time of night runs every 40 minutes and it's at least 40 minutes to where I get off and then walk 20 minutes home. Leroy could not handle that much more time in the carrier. Where I worked at that time was near a subway station so I got off and walked to work. I waited in the lobby while Leroy's screaming bloody murder and it echos throughout the lobby😬 I'm still surprised that security didn't come to investigate. Their desk is on the other side of the lobby down a couple steps. We get picked up and head home. I still have a death grip over the hole in the carrier and Leroy's still trying to get out. Half an hour later I get Leroy safely inside his new home and let him out. He bolts out and keeps screaming his head off and literally just bounces off the walls. And it just so happened to be the 1 year anniversary and the exact time of Squishy's passing. I have no idea what Squishy was thinking when he sent Leroy my way. I knew Abys are energetic but Leroy was beyond that 😲 The carrier was't fixable so it had to be discarded. That's why Leroy can only be transported in a hard plastic carrier or contained in someting with hard solid walls. He can claw his way out of soft sided carriers and the like.

Anyone else have a crazy cat story to share?
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Omg, that really was a story worth waiting for!! Your boy sure has some energy!
So glad he didn’t escape and somehow you managed to get him home safely. I don’t know how you got through all that, sheer determination.
I would’ve been terrified, and your efforts are incredibly admirable. That was quite an accomplishment to get him from the airport back home.

In a previous life, I had a cat who did not like being transported to the vet and he was my first cat. Stupidly I believed someone who told me a cardboard carrier was just fine.

Well, he chewed his way out of the carrier on the way to the vet.
Same kind of story that you had, his head was sticking out. 🙄
I learned very quickly that we needed a hard carrier for him.
Never did I attempt another cardboard carrier, stupid, young Staci learned fast about cats 😻🤷‍♀️
 
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