For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Lena’s grandmother called her again so she went to see what was wrong. “Okay Mr. Cat, what happened last night?”, I asked, “now is a good time to talk while we are alone.” Meow.=I need to use litter box, you put it in bathroom. “Oh, a big mistake on my part, I will change that”, I said. Meow.=Not your fault. When I come back I see human Charlie in hall. He wave to me to come so I did, that big mistake for me, I know I should not have done that but I thought I could trust him. He whisper to me that he have something important to show me, so he pick me up, then I feel little sting in my neck, I not be able to move. Then another man in kitchen give me big needle and I go to sleep, then wake up in trees. I not remember anything else.
“That’s enough Mr. Cat,” I said, “from now on we trust no one, and I mean no one.” The cats look at each other. Meow, meow?=Not even Lena? “Not even Lena Muffin, not right now anyway,” I said, “we just need to be very careful until we find out what is going on. First thing is we need some time, I think I might have a plan, but we have to look for that treasure, so…” I whisper instructions to the cats. “Come here you 2,” I said, “time for a hug.” I picked them up and we all hugged. “I’m sorry Mr. Cat, I nearly got you killed and that hurts me,” I told him quietly. Meow.=It not your fault, I love you. Meow, meow.=Yes, not time for fault, I love you so much. It time for us to work so we can get these bad human people. “Okay,” I said, “right after dinner we start searching the attic for clues, then tomorrow we go out and look for that treasure.”
Meow, meow!=YAY! They both said at the same time. After dinner I got Charlie alone and asked if he could get in touch with those other guys. He said yes, so I told him to say, give us 2 days to find the treasure and we will give it to them if they will let us go. We won’t say anything to anyone about this place, we’ll just forget we were ever here. Charlie said it was worth a try and off he went. Then the cats and I went to the attic to look around. At least there was a nice stairway leading to the attic. It was one large room filled from end to end with all sorts of stuff. There is probably a lot of family heirlooms up here, guess Lena will inherit everything.
Now, where to start looking? Over where they found the letter I guess. We searched around for about 3 hours but found nothing that would help us. Then, in an old dresser, taped under one of the drawers was a very old map. Several buildings were marked on there but nothing matched the buildings on this farm. Was it a different farm? But why have a map of a different farm? Why would the treasure be hidden on someone else’s farm? Then it hit me, the old homestead over where we found Mr. Cat! As I thought about it, trying to remember the buildings over there, everything fit together perfectly. Did no one else think of looking over there? Charlie certainly knew about the place.
“We will check here tomorrow,” I told the cats, “I’m sure this is what we want, but it may not help us to find the treasure. Anyway, we will start there and see what we come up with.” Meow, meow.=That good idea, we start now. “No, not at night, we will wait until morning,” I said. Meow, meow.=Going to be too excited to sleep tonight. “Well, you better get a good sleep, we want you wide awake to help with the search,” I said with a big smile. “Hey, where’s Mr. Cat?” Meow, meow.=He looking over there. Muffin points over behind me. Mr. Cat had his ear to the floor, then he looked up and waved his tail for us to come over. When we got there he showed me a small hole in the floor, it was right over the kitchen. Charlie and another man were sitting at the table.
To Be Continued.
Pictures of Mr. Cat supplied by his human, Nina.
Previous chapters and stories can be found on my home page under 20/20 Investigations, Inc.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
Go get him!! Hold him until they let you all go!! Hurry!!🤨🤨😁😳
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Hold who? The other man might be an innocent neighbor. Or he might have a gun and there might be more of them down there. That’s a small hole, can’t see much. And I want to hear what they are talking about before doing anything. Might be interesting.🤔😾😾🕵️♂️👩
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Could be fishing stories I suppose??
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Good thinking! Except there’s no water around there.🤔
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There’s a well!😁🙄
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True, I always thought there was something fishy about that well.🤔😳🐟🐠🐳
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Well it is a bit deep to jump into right now…🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
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That’s true, but deep water can produce big fish!😠😾😾
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Are you saying they wold eat Mr. Cat?? Im not sure he and Muffin woukd appreciate that…🤭🤭 chomp chomp!🤭🤭😬
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Big fish catch big fishermen.😠😾😾
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Why the sour face?? 🤔🤨
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That’s an angry face because of these characters! We’re gonna get em! They’re not getting away with what they did to Mr. Cat!
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I see!!🤓 I agree! Losd up their slingshots with steel ball bearings and let the cats at’em!!! 🤨😡
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Exactly, but we got to find out who “em” is first and then the steel starts to fly!🤔😾😾😒🤯
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😬😠😡 grrrrrrr……..
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My emojis exactly!😬😠😡☠
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Why the sour face?? You said no fish! Because mo water… I just reminded you of the well. See?😁🤔
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I knew about the well, I was there remember? Just testing your memory, you passed.😁🤔
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HA! & HA HA!😛😝😝 Thank you😁😉😊
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed my little test.😁🙄
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Well.. I did pass! 😁
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Did you pick up your $200?
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For passing go?? No I’m waiting for you to pay me!🤭🤭😁
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Long wait.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I didn’t say I was banking on it! Just waiting..🙄🙄🙄 hmmm de dum de dum… I do a lot of that..🤭🤭
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While you’re waiting, how’s sunny Florida?
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Im home again😞 btw… can you turn the heat up? Its very cold here!!🥶🥶🥶🥶
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That was fast, I didn’t think you would come back. It rained here this morning. I went out to get some pics and when I got outside it was raining, and only 28F. Produced a bit of ice.😳😬🧊
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Ohhhhh…. not good! I’ll stay longer next time.
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As they say in the old country, “if you have it good, watch out, a rock is about to hit your foot.”
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You and this old country!!! LOL 😂😂😂
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As they say in the old country, “a good laugh is more fun than having a tree fall on your head.”
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Duhhhhh……🙄😒
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I knew you would like that one.😁
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How could I not?? Lol 😁
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True, I come up with em.😁🙄
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Yes you do..
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Thank you.😁
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Are you watching Soccer again??🙄
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Soccer? You are joking.🙄🙀
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Well…. yeah! 🤭🤭🤭🤭
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Thought so.
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Are they winning? 🤭🤭
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For now, but we’ll make them regret they ever heard of, um, heard of, um (meow,meow), oh, right, heard of us PI’s!😒😾😾
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Hehehehe 😁
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Hey, I can’t remember everything.🤔🙄
Meow, meow.=Try remember something.😸😹
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Ahahah that a way MUFFIN!! bite his toe once for me😂😂😂😂
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Everyone wants to be a comedian.🙄🙄
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Chomp, chomp🤭🤭🤭🤭
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I’m not hungry. Oh, if I disappear now and then, it’s because I’m not feeling well today.
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Uh oh… sorry to hear that. 😬🤕
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Hit me about 3 am.
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Yikes!! Thats about the time I got up to go to the airport! Do you suppose it was the Voo doo doll? I didn’t mean to squeeze the stomach that hard 😕
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As they say in the old country, “whatever voo do will come back voo u.”
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Ahahah….😛 that’s not very kind of you.. lol 😁
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It’s that old country humor.😄😄😛😛
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Yes it is very old..😒
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That’s why I knew you would like it!😄🤭
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Ooooooooo…. watch it you!!😉😏
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I’m on fire tonight!😂🙄🔥🥵
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Quick… go roll in the snow!!🤣🤣🤣🤣😍
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What snow?
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Up in smoke then!! Hehehe🔥🔥
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Thanks. As they say in the old country, ” where there’s smoke a BBQ dinner isn’t far away.”
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Oooooo…. that sounds delicious!!😋😋
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I prefer my food without being covered with all that black stuff you have to try and chip off before you can get at the dried out meat below.
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What kinda BBQ do you😳 have??😳
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I don’t, I like to enjoy my food and I never could cook anything edible with one of those things.🙄
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Ahahah… that’s too bad! It’s very good when done properly… not that I can… but I’ve had some that delicious!😋😁
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Yes, done right it is good.😃
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Yeah!!
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Didn’t you just answer that?🤔🙄
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I suppose I did… must have forgot 🤔🤫
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Memory problems, not good.🤔🙄
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What memory? Did I forget something??🙄🤔
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You’re asking me?🙄🙄
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Oh yeah… your memory!!
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Hey, don’t blame me, I didn’t take it!😳
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You couldn’t remember if you did!!😂😂😂
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I can remember as good as, um, good as, um, well I can!🙄😳
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Sure……😉😊
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Glad you agree!😁🥳🥳🤸♂️🤸♂️🏆🏆
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Well.. you did say I was right today… so I had to reyurn the comiment🙄
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I said you were right? I should have left that alone.
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Well… you’re not in your right mind!! Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I know, I had to borrow one from the used mind library, I left mine outside and it froze.🤪🤪🤪
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Freezer burn will get you every time!!
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You’re telling me.😬🤪🧊
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Freeze dried in your case!😛😜
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French fries, that sounds almost like a good idea, but not right now.🙄😳🍟🍟🍟🍟
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Okay Frenchy! Lol 🤣🤣🤣
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Very good. I’m laughing.
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Lol hehehe🤭🤭🤭🤭
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I knew you would like that one.
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Ha!😝😛
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I knew you would like that one.😊😏
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I sure saw a lot of police out on tge way to yhe airport! Must have been a dozen of them in the 20 mile stretch I traveled.
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Wow, maybe they were looking for you, I mean, someone?🤔😳👮♀️👮♂️👮♀️👮♂️
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They had their chances…
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Those new dark glasses of yours helped.
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😎😎😎 oh yeah…..
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You look so distinguishable.
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Why… Thank You!! I rezemble that remark!!😁😁
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That’s why I said it.🙄
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Nice try…😛😛😛
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Thank you.😁
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U R Welcome!😛
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Thank you.😁
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Ya!!!
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How odd.
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Did you just call me odd?🤔
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As they say in the old country, “if the shoe fits take the hat and coat too.”
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I could have used both when I landed here today!!!🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶 brrrrr
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Just wait, the cold weather is coming tomorrow.
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Maybe I should repack my bag..🤔🤔🥶🥶
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And miss all the fun? At least we don’t have much snow. My brother lives out west, they had a snowstorm last weekend, he’s still shoveling snow. There was 4 feet of it in his driveway.😬😬😂😂
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He’ll get his workout in shoveling that’s for sure!
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He only had the driveway half done and the plow came by and blocked him in again. Then when he finally had it all done, same thing happened. Then yesterday it was so windy it drifted in about 2 feet deep again!
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Oh I remember those days!
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Yep, the good ol days.
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Not much good about that much snow..
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As they say in the old country, “if there’s lots of snow you won’t have to mow the lawn.”
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Not that year!! Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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See? It works.😜😜
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So it does… you!
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Thanks for agreeing.🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭😛😛😛
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I just had to do it! lol 😁
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Thanks, very nice of you. I think.🤔🤯🤯🤯
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Awww—-“I love you”😻😻😻🖐
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Sigh, and I almost got him killed. Sniff.😥😻😻🖐👩
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You gave him a bit of a scare—good for him once in a while. He learned a good lesson. You all did! 😊🖐😻😻😁🙀🙈
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Yes indeed! We have a code of rules to follow as PI’s and we messed up, but the work carries on now! 3 heads are better than none after all! But what’s ahead for us now? And what can we do, who can we trust?🤔😳😾😾🕵️♂️👩😻🖐😻
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Yep…who can we trust…🙃🙈🖐🙀☕️
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It’s getting hard to know. That’s bad. Perhaps today we will find out more info.🤔😾😾🕵️♂️👩
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I don’t like this Charlie! He may love his granddaughter but he puts you all in danger. I hope they’ll give you the time though 😐😾
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Yes, we need that time to come up with a good plan. I’m beginning to really distrust Charlie, but I could be wrong about him.🤔😬😾😾🕵️♂️👩
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Wow ! Good thing that Mr. Cat found that hole in the floor ! Interesting story line ! Cats are smart and cuddly too ! ☕️☕️🕵️♂️😮😾😼👩
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Yes, that hole in the floor just might tell us something. Or not. Have to wait and see what it’s all about!🤔😾😾🕵️♂️👩
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Yep, he is the man, Mr Cat got him it seems, come one Muffin, time for slingshot 💉oops, wrong smiley, it still ends with a shot isn’t it 😜Wise decision Steve, believe no one 🤨 Charlie is bad, very bad and selfish, Lena is shady 🧐 maybe, not sure if that’s the right word, I’m trying to expand my vocabulary okay 🤨 Muffin would help me 😾 why serious muffin? not wanting to help me? meow meow, yeah I totally understood that. Hey Steve, can you help me translate that 😳🙄😋
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Yep, I’m not trusting Charlie right now, something’s not right with him, just not quite sure what it is yet. Not too sure about Lena, is she on Charlie’s side or is she on our side? Hard to tell sometimes. I want to trust her, I really do, but…😬👩
Hmm, you just told Muffin she has huge feet,😲🙀 she’s not happy now, she’s in the corner sharpening her claws.😼 Better run and hide Simon.😳
Time for bed, Good night Simon!😁🌙😴😴
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Yes, Charlie, Lena, don’t trust anyone. Muffin has huge feet 😳? why? did anything bit her feet? 🤔 well muffin should explain that, may be she placed her foot in litter box 😜 okay, times up I don’t want that bite and scratches signing off 😋😜😅😂 Gud Night 🤗🤗
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I’m late, sorry about that. Have a good night Simon!😁😺🌙😴
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Good Morning Steve 😀
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Muffin you look so adorable 🥰😍 and Mr Cat you too, your owner took a nice shot of you. 😍Lovely pics Steve ✨🤗
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Those cats know how to pose just right!😻😻
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Exactly they look like super models😍🥰
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You shouldn’t have said that, now Muffin brought out her crown again and want’s to be treated like a queen!😳😸😻😻👑
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Ha ha 😉 a perfect balance, you know what I mean, Muffin will forgive me 😛
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Good morning Simon!😀🌨 Everyone is on Muffin’s side.☹😁
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is it 🧐🤔well, let me do something about it🤔 hey im on your side 😅 Muffin side too 😜
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Thanks!😁 I think.🤔🙄😹
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I don’t trust Charlie at all and I am beginning to distrust, Lena! Poor Mr. Cat enduring that awful ordeal and poor Muffin was frantic. It was hard on you too! I hope what you hear through that hole in the floor furnishes some clues. And, don’t get trapped in the attic! ☕️☕️😿👀👂🐾😬
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Yes, I’m beginning to think there’s more going on here than we know about. Charlie is still hiding something I’m sure. I hope Lena is not involved, the cats still trust her, so that’s a good sign. I’m hoping to find out something through this hole, but it might not be anything that will help. Still….
I would never have forgiven myself if Mr. Cat hadn’t survived, that was rough. But now we’re more determined than ever to get this case done!😒😾😾🕵️♂️👩
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Wow, looks like everyone has secrets now.🙀 It’s sad that both Mr. Cat and Muffin had to go through all that. I loved their photos here!😸
Keen to know who the guy you saw through the hole was🕵️♀️
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Mr. Cat and Muffin will be stronger and smarter because of this experience, that will help them, and me too.
Yes, who is this guy? Maybe just a neighbor stopped by for coffee, or….🤔😳😾😾🕵️♂️👩
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