Great Escape: No-Sighting #25

Am exhausted. No further sign of Bunny. It's midnight. I'm not 100% that Bunny knows which door to come and cry at to be let in nor can I be 100% it was Bunny's black fur in the food dish, but it's likely. I suppose I can't be 100% the cat everyone saw tonight was Bunny. Bunny shaped, Bunny colored and sounded like Bunny, yes, but I never did get a close up positive ID in good light. It was all black cat-shapes in shadow.

Am too tired to keep on. Have work tomorrow. Am debating whether or not to visit the pound, confident as I am Bunny's running around the complex tonight. 

Great Escape: Sighting? #26

I've always been so cautious about IDing the black cats I see at night because it's HARD to see a black cat at night and I've gotten close enough to one to see it was not Bunny before. I'm second-guessing those cat sightings.  At 1:30 AM there was a rushed knocking at my door. The guys from across the way with the dog were knocking and I rushed over, threw the door open and they were all, "Is that your cat?"

To the left of my door is a  three and a half foot metal fence. Then there's rocks, maybe 4 yards, leading to a 3 ft retaining wall at the parking lot. Sitting on the wall was an all-black cat. I said I thought it was my cat, and the guys quietly went back into their place as not to frighten her away. I sat down by the food dish. If I wanted to catch her, I'd have to walk around the building and risk her running off, disappearing. I'd have to try coaxing her over. So I sat down, shook her food, moved the feather toy and wondered why I wasn't seeing her eyes being all glowy and why I couldn't get a good check on her face and that was when I realized the cat wasn't even looking my way. It was still looking into the parking lot, not at me. I couldn't get a good ID, not without a face. But the body just seemed too small. Obviously, Bunny probably has lost weight on her excursion. Still. This one looked too lythe for Bunny's boxy, rectangular body and round head. And not look at me? At the sound of her food dish? At the sound of me calling her? At the sight/sound of her favorite toy?

It probably was the same cat returning to the same area (my area) all three times last night. But was it /really/ Bunny? or the stray black cat who is, in fact, younger and smaller than Bunny, tho similar enough for me to have mistaken the two before, but corrected my suspicions upon closer inspection.

No idea anymore.

It eventually darted off. I grabbed my flashlight and took off after it. Did a pretty good job of tracking it (it ran through 2 of those metal fences; clearly this cat has some experience in dodging humans by using them. 

Lost track of the cat on the other side of the complex. Bummer.