"MaryL" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" wrote in message ...
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> I woke early and had the feeling to check the raccoon traps. Heard Jazzy
> as
> soon as I opened the door. She couldn't have been in there too long
> because
> husband always checks them before he leaves for work. She had some
> stickers
> in her fur, is missing fur on part of her face and a bad looking injury on
> her tail. Can't get her into the vet until tomorrow and don't really feel
> that this is a case for an emergency vet as the tail wound isn't fresh.
> She
> seems very happy to be home! Sadly I suspect that Bali is dead. Although
> neither cat is a real fighter...they did fight some but as in perhaps
> learning and not to do damage... Jazzy is strong and powerful and was
> very
> overprotective of her daughter. I just can't see Bali fighting very hard
> and I suspect she is up there with Maui now. But happy to get one cat
> back!
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> Great! I hope you will also find Bali, but I'm glad you do have one of
> them. I would like to recommend, again, that you call and *keep calling*
> any animal shelters in your area. It isn't enough to check once. I have
> had friends who failed to check and learned later that their pets were
> eventually turned in to the animal shelter. In some cases, the news was
> good; but there were also cases where the cat or dog was put to sleep
> because it had been at the shelter past the time for it to be held. An
> owner could find that their pet was not at the shelter--but it could be
> turned in a month later. Even if you leave a description and a request
> for staff to call you, they are often so busy that the call does not get
> made (probably because no one recognized the "stray" from the owner's
> description).

There are only two animal shelters and they do not take calls. The one is
so far away, nobody who lives in this area would be likely to go there.
They are for unincorporated Snohomish county and that is where we live but
that covers a wide span of cities.

The other is closer and is more likely where someone would take her but...
Unless she is gotten in a trap, it's unlikely that anyone would be able to
get her. Because Jazzy stuck so close to home and because she is not
calling out for her now as she would always do if Bali were in some odd spot
of the house or getting too close to the garage door or something, it leads
me to believe that she knows that her daughter is gone. I will go out and
change the pics I have posted though to have just Bali on them.