Well, the day has come, as we suspected it would. Working from the living room on Wednesday, I heard the tinkle of Jed’s cat collar to my left. Unfortunately, the only thing to my left is a wall with an open window. Jed was on the other side launching 3 feet in the air with each energetic swat at a hovering carpenter bee. He was joined soon after by his attached-at-the-hip brother.

Leading up to their great escape, we had seen their crafty, feline minds calculating the dogs’ trajectory and speed as they’d launch through their dog door. Knowing that they, too, could materialize on the other side of that wall, these cats were not thwarted by heavy, peristant squirt-bottle fire?or threats of even bigger artillery, the all-powerful Super Soaker. Potted cat grass and wimpy indoor tree trunks had nothing on the basic instinct for freedom, the smell of the great outdoors and the exciting jungle life awaiting them outside.

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