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While still living in NYC my apartment was home to 4 cute and cuddly cats. For the most part Charlie, Azreal, Lokki and Bloopy are all very friendly. They rarely hide when company comes over and are usually eager to greet our guests. During my last week there, I had a handful of people over helping me pack, clean and move all my belongings. This activity turned out too be a little much for my kitties. Each one found his own secret place to hide.

All was well until we picked up the moving truck and began moving all the furniture. Piece by piece the hiding spots slowly disappeared. I clearly remember John lifting my mattress and watching as 3 frantic cats dispersed.

We only had 2 travel crates (though one was large enough to house two cats thankfully!), so we needed to make more than one trip to get all the cat’s to Jeff house. Bloopy was the first one to be unhappily put in a box. Charlie and Azreal soon followed. This was mainly because Lokki couldn’t be found. He’s got to be somewhere we thought and shrugged it off. We didn’t have crate room for him then anyway.

After confirming the three of us were hungry, John, Jeff and I headed to Bay Ridge for food, and later to drop off the crates at Jeff’s house.

When we returned from dinner the guys loaded up the last bits of furniture. Shortly afterwards, Jeff worriedly approached me to say Lokki hadn’t been found. “I’ve checked everywhere! There’s no place left for him to hide. Where the hell could he be?” he asked.

It was probably an hour later that I walked into the kitchen (to make sure we weren’t leaving anything behind) and saw him. I had to laugh. “I found Lokki!” I shouted wondering if he had been there the whole time. “What?!?! Where?!! I looked everywhere!” he yelled back. I don’t know how Jeff could have missed him. Remind me never to put him on the search committee should AJ ever turn up missing. lol

There Lokki was, in my kitchen, in complete and total plain site, trying to hide behind pipes no thicker than my first three fingers. lol He looked so pathetic. I still don’t know who’s worse; Him for thinking he was fooling us, or us for taking an hour to find him!!!

This just goes to show; Always check the most obvious places first.