Storytelling: Friends and Family
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This is my cat Georgia. She is very loud. Georgia spends about half of every day sitting by the backdoor meowing at us to let her go outside. The only problem is that she is an indoor cat. My dad built a “cat fence” on top of our fences to keep our cats in the yard and the neighbors’ cats out. The cat fence works fine with our other cats but not Georgia. She is determined to escape and explore the neighborhood. Every week Georgia thinks of a new plan. This week she dug a hole under the fence to get into the neighbor’s yard. By the time we realized she was missing, she had already been gone for hours. My family stopped searching at midnight but I stayed out to look for her. Some time later I heard growling and than loud screeching and wrestling in my neighbor’s yard. I woke up my parents and then ran back to see that the neighbor’s cat had chased Georgia to the top of the tree near the fence, where she was cold, stuck, and scared. I grabbed a ladder and ran over to the fence. I was on the top row of the ladder and I leaned into the neighbor’s tree to grab her. As I picked her up, her claws dug in deep in my arm. I handed her to my dad, we checked her for injuries, and then we went to sleep. When I woke up the next day Georgia was back at the backdoor meowing, begging us to let her outside. She never learns.