Sunday, May 31, 2026 - 11:13 PM

Well...that was the wrong cat.

The pet microchip scanner we ordered arrived yesterday, which is good. Vi was out for a third round of job interview, which vi got! So that was awesome.

On vir way home from the interview, Vi saw the grey cat in the neighborhood. Vi said he came right to vir. Vi scooped him up, and pinged us to bring the scanner down.

We scanned the cat's chip...it came up a different number. So we've officially ruled that cat out.

So the search was back to square one. Robin thinks the cat we saw the first time might have been Gray--she says he was much more nervous than his doppelgänger--but obviously we don't know whether he was our boy or his doppelgänger.

Fortunately, the pet rescue org Vi's been messaging with called vir, and they'll be bringing out the tracking dog some time tomorrow. They cautioned us that it may not come to much. Cats move around a lot, and, naturally, often avoid the dogs. But they might be able to narrow places down for us, which would be huge, since we're at square one again.

Then Robin was looking at the building while she was outside searching for Gray, and realized that there's a ledge to the roof he could have leapt to from the window...! Which is certainly in character for him.

So...we're wondering if he decided to go to the roof. Did he go to the roof and slip into someone's open skylight? Slip into someone else's apartment? The other side of the building has areas he could definitely get to the ground by. Did he do that?

We don't know. We just don't know. But now we're hoping he finds our patio and have put some food out on it.

I miss him so much. I just want my cat back.