家出娘

2009年7月4日

アロエが帰ってきました。
家猫にもかかわらずアロエの家出はこれで４度目、前の家で２度ありユトレヒトに来てからは２度目です。

家出と言っても、遊んでいるうちに自分では戻ってこられない場所に行っているだけなので、それを丸一日かけて探すわけです。そういう日はスタジオに行くのは休みます。じりじりしますが。

オランダは町の中心部はこのように家と家とがぴったりとくっつき合っています。
窓から屋根へ出て、屋根を伝っていくうちにどこか他所の家の窓からその家に入る→その家の人が気づかず窓が閉められ出られなくなる、とか、
どこかの家の裏庭から生えている木が屋根まで届いてて、そこを降りてしまい登れなくなってその裏庭でじっとしているとか、外に出さない猫なのにあらゆる場所でスタックしてしまうのであなどれません。

時間が経てば猫の方でも帰ってこようとしていますが、猫にも帰るタイミングというのがあるらしく探した時に見つかるというわけでもなく、でも丸１日あれば両者のタイミングが合い何とか見つかります。

見つけたらそこから一番近い家に入れてもらってつかまえます。
本当に幸運なことに、今までお世話になった人はみないい人で、真夜中でも快く中に入れてくれ、「今度お茶でも飲みにいらっしゃい」とまで言ってくれます。

ああ、今日も見つかってよかった。

アロエとDom Tower、ユトレヒトで一番高い建物

July 4, 2009 9:04 AM

a runaway girl

4th July 2009

Aloe has backed.
She is an indoor cat and this is 4th ranaway of her. Twice in our previous house in Amsterdam and twice in here Utrecht.

When I say ranaway, which means that she's just cannot come back to the house by herself because she's stacked somewhere. In case of that I try to find her a whole day long, of course without going to the studio.

In Holland's city center, buildings and buildings are totally connecting each other, like you can see a photo.
For example, If Aloe goes out from our window, and she walk through troughs and roofs, and she enters to a neibough's house from theirs windows, then the neibough close the window without knowing a cat is indoor.

Also possible that, a tree reaches to the roofs from someone's backgarden. She climbs the tree down and she is waiting there because she cannot climb it up.
Our rooms is a street side and we cannot to see any neibough's back garden from our room.

So, she is an indoor cat however she can get stacked in every nook and cranny.

After a couple of hours, she starts to try to get back to the house but all cats have theirs own way, so it becomes not so simple, like, 'She is trying to get back, I am trying to find her, so we can see each other soonest'.
Anyway, mostly it solves in a whole day long.

When I find her somewhere, I ask to enter the house of nearest from her to take her out.
Luckly, my neiboughs, what I have ever asked to enter, are all kind and nice persons.
They are not only willing to make enter such strengers even in midnight, but also they say ''You are welcome, you can come to have a cup of tea for next time'' !! Oh..thanks..

Well, That's great again to find her today ..Yokatta!

Aloe and Dom Tower

July 4, 2009 6:26 AM

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