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But I had to work hard, persist almost to breaking point & do my bit too.
This is what happened.
My husband & I were living & working in a city in the North Island of New Zealand. We didn't own a car but we did have a pet cat - 'Puddy'. However, said cat was too tiny to pull a sulky so we caught the bus to everywhere necessary instead.
One day, the neighbours across the road who'd just sold their house parked a large empty truck which they gradually filled with all their worldly goods in prep. for their move to another city an hour's drive away.
Our cat showed typical kitty curiosity with all the interesting goings on and new smells coming from that truck.
At the end of the week the truck was gone. That night, Puddy didn't turn up. Nor the next day. Nor the next week. Lots of praying. Lots of tears. Lots of searching high & low. Sticking up lots of 'missing much loved pet' posters all over the neighbourhood.
Then another neighbour suggested we phone the recently moved neighbours on the off-chance that Puddy had hitched a ride in that truck.
Sure enough, they said they'd seen a cat matching Puddy's description hanging around at their new home, but kept shooing it away thinking it was a stray, until it didn't return.
Carless, we hired a car & headed to the new city to hunt for Pud. We did the postering thing and advertised in that city's newspaper offering a reward. Got lots of responses, but no cat.
We kept hiring cars and searching high & low.
We did this week after week after week. Always praying and often weeping.
I was NOT EVER going to stop searching until I found her. I loved her so much.
After a month, a chap phoned after seeing the ad in the paper. He told us he noticed & began feeding a cat that had recently took up residence underneath an abandoned house down the road from him in that city in a street named Hyde street. So we got hold of a cat cage, hubby's brother drove us over to the city, and we called Puddy's name. Out from underneath the house emerged a tiny paw - I recognised that paw!
and then followed by a painfully thin and bedraggled Puddy.
For the first time in my life I leaped up for joy!
God had answered my prayers!
May He answer yours too!
This is what happened.
My husband & I were living & working in a city in the North Island of New Zealand. We didn't own a car but we did have a pet cat - 'Puddy'. However, said cat was too tiny to pull a sulky so we caught the bus to everywhere necessary instead.
One day, the neighbours across the road who'd just sold their house parked a large empty truck which they gradually filled with all their worldly goods in prep. for their move to another city an hour's drive away.
Our cat showed typical kitty curiosity with all the interesting goings on and new smells coming from that truck.
At the end of the week the truck was gone. That night, Puddy didn't turn up. Nor the next day. Nor the next week. Lots of praying. Lots of tears. Lots of searching high & low. Sticking up lots of 'missing much loved pet' posters all over the neighbourhood.
Then another neighbour suggested we phone the recently moved neighbours on the off-chance that Puddy had hitched a ride in that truck.
Sure enough, they said they'd seen a cat matching Puddy's description hanging around at their new home, but kept shooing it away thinking it was a stray, until it didn't return.
Carless, we hired a car & headed to the new city to hunt for Pud. We did the postering thing and advertised in that city's newspaper offering a reward. Got lots of responses, but no cat.
We kept hiring cars and searching high & low.
We did this week after week after week. Always praying and often weeping.
I was NOT EVER going to stop searching until I found her. I loved her so much.
After a month, a chap phoned after seeing the ad in the paper. He told us he noticed & began feeding a cat that had recently took up residence underneath an abandoned house down the road from him in that city in a street named Hyde street. So we got hold of a cat cage, hubby's brother drove us over to the city, and we called Puddy's name. Out from underneath the house emerged a tiny paw - I recognised that paw!
and then followed by a painfully thin and bedraggled Puddy.
For the first time in my life I leaped up for joy!
God had answered my prayers!
May He answer yours too!
