I lost my turtle.

[Bastian]

Some of you might be familiar with my turtle. He is pictured here:




I was away at my friends' overnight and when I came home, I saw my back door screen ajar. I had stupidly forgotten to lock it. Had someone broken into my house? Nothing was stolen. I checked on my cat (she was fine). I checked on my turtle. He was not in his habitat (a kid's large wading pool).

I freaked out. I checked EVERYWHERE in the apartment three times. Everywhere. I freaked out some more. Remembering that the back screen door was ajar, I looked around a bit outside, but didn't see him.
I searched inside again. And outside again. And inside again. And freaked out again. And decided he HAD to be outside and looked.

And he was under a bush.

I was so happy I cried. And felt extremely happy for the rest of the day.

Has anyone else lost a pet only to find them later?

[Marshall Banana]

He played a mean trick on you.

[Lawr]

Yeah one time my fish got lost! I freaked out bro.

[TheAbominatrix]

That sounds awful. Seriously, I would have started crying about half way into that.

We've had a couple of our dogs get out and take off before, and they always came back by the end of the day. Now I own two indoor/outdoor cats, and sometimes they arent back by dinner and it makes me nervous, but they always come back before I start to freak.

I'm glad you found your turtle! Shlup's turtle ran away once and never came back ;_;

[Freya]

I lost a dog and a cat this year Dunno where they went ;_;

BUT I do have a 14 yr old cat that I lost when he was 3 and he came back a month later! I also had a cat that was a tomcat that left for a year and came back half blind and completely deaf.

What's your turtles name?

[Medi]

In around 6th grade, we had this cat that was both blind and deaf (we found him as a kitten on our property, where many stray cats fornicated). We took him in, cared for him. It was really depressing to see it run around in circles sometimes. Anywho, one night, we couldn't find him anywhere inside our house. The next morning, as I was walking down my long driveway to get to the bus, I found him sitting in the middle of it. Such a relief!

He ended up dying out of some health problem. =\

[The Space Pope]

i lost my virginity and found it in the sock drawer of an old blind jazz musician who was using it masturbatory inspiration

[Shlup]

When a similar thing happened with my turtle, I did not find her again. ;___________;

Once my bunny got out of his pen so I went door-to-door hunting for him. Everyone said they hadn't seen him so I went home to be sad. Later, a girl my age (15, I think) from down the street came to the door with her little brothers and... my bunny! I had asked the little brats directly if they had seen him, and they said 'no' hoping they could keep him. Their sister recognized him and made them apologize.

Little bastards.

...

This thread has made me sad!

[Rye]

I freak out daily, when I have trouble finding one of my aquatic pals in my 10 gallon tank when I take stock first thing in the morning.

It's pretty much always:

WHERE IS MY FROG.

WHERE ISS HEEEE. ;_______;''

Oh. Thar he. *goes to brush teef*

[rubah]

When I was almost three years old, my family moved from our trailer to the house next door. (next door being like .3 km away)

We had three pets at the time, AFAIK, Boug the massively overweight beagle, Cocoa the orange tabby, and Puppa, a black lab that I must assume I named. We were pretty good friends.

Anyways, Cocoa and Boug moved with us, but I guess Puppa didn't like the new digs, as (he? she? I wasn't exactly to the state of development where i was using pronouns correctly) ran away.

As for pets that have been found, we had to chase my cat Cato around quite a bit when he was still young. He was old enough to go outside by himself, and we had to acknowledge that he was growing up and big enough to stay outside all night when he'd run off to the bluff where we couldn't get to him in the dark xD I remember one night my dad and I ran all over trying to catch him xD

When my mom got her little chihuahua, she lived in constant terror a hawk or something would have the bad judgment to carry off her dog. (I'd leave it be, if I were a bird of prey 8))

[Jessweeee♪]

My mom "accidentally" scared my cat out the door and she didn't come back for like a week. Then my mom made her stay outside forever. I cried

[The Space Pope]

I freak out daily, when I have trouble finding one of my aquatic pals in my 10 gallon tank when I take stock first thing in the morning.

It's pretty much always:

WHERE IS MY FROG.

WHERE ISS HEEEE. ;_______;''

Oh. Thar he. *goes to brush teef*

WHY DO YOU TYPE SO SMALL

[Momiji]

WHERE IS MY FROG.

WHERE ISS HEEEE. ;_______;''

[Rye]

Because something has to distract from how tiny my wee wee is...

EDIT: Justin, that note looks downright sinister. xD

[The Space Pope]

Because something has to distract from how tiny my wee wee is...

BUT YOU ARE A FEMALE AND FROM WHAT I KNOW HUMAN FEMALES POSSESS VAGINAS WHILE HUMAN MALES POSSESS A PENIS COMMA DO NOT TELL ME THAT KINDERGARTEN COP LIED TO ME EXCLAMATION POINT