My Name is Spyro
I got very scared and ran until I was lost. I didn’t know which way to turn and couldn’t find my way home.
I wandered the streets, but found everywhere different. I climbed fences, scaled walls and ran up the tallest tree. Home was nowhere in sight.
The gritty tarmac hurt my paws. Terror-struck, I ran across a fast road, hoping to find home. The sun came and went many times before a lady gave me some food and asked me inside. I stay with her now, but she doesn’t know my name is Spyro.
I miss my own home.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleOh, poor Spyro. I’m glad he has a home, but I’m sad that he misses his old home … and his old name! Good story.
Thanks Fuji, and poor mum, dad, feline and canine brothers and sisters who still miss him terribly nearly a year and a half later. This is the best of what we can hope happened to him, anything else is too distressing to bear. We’re still looking in hope.
Such a sad story Carrie. I’ve read of cats returning home after many years so there is still hope Spyro will too. I love how you’ve written this from the cat’s p.o.v.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleCheers Linda. It just felt right, somehow, telling it from Spyro’s P.O.V. Making up a story for him with a semi happy ending helps with the coping mechanism. We still hope.
Poor Spyro! I hope he finds his way home again. This is such a bitter-sweet story. There is the happiness that he found a new home and is being looked after, but the sadness that he misses his old home. Great story.
This is a mixed emotion between sadness, happiness, and hope. A very nice story. How I wish Spyro will finally return to his old home.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThank you so much, Lotchie. Perhaps if all my friends hope with us, he really will find his way home. We actually think that he was stolen. There are a lot of grey / grey and white cats that have gone missing with absolutely no explanation. He certainly wouldn’t have run away on purpose. He was devoted to both my husband and our 18 year old cat.
How sad to know that Spyro was stolen on purpose. I know how you and your husband love Spyro. Do not worry, I am praying that Spyro will return to your family soon.
How sad, Carrie. Until I read the comments, I didn’t realize that Spyro was your own beloved cat. I do hope he returns.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThank you Julie, yes he is our beautiful boy, and I can only hope that one day he will come back to us. For now all I can do is immortalise him in his own little stories.
While owners fret so, I guess the nature of the cat would be, I’m enjoying this walkabout holiday, new owners, plenty of petting, the foods different, I’ll stay awhile before moving on, and then I’ll go home looking ragged and tattered, and the joy of – oh! You poor cat where ever have you been?
It depends very much on the cat Eric. This one rarely left ours or our neighbours garage roof and never stayed outside more than an hour unless one of us was in the garden with him. And it’s been 16 months now. I wrote this story, originally, around the time he first went missing, in the hope that it is the worst thing that happened to him. Unfortunately we know that there… Read more »
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleI do hope you find Sypro! Your stories are just pure gold! They are filled with such emotion. Congratulations on yet again, another wonderful story.
Thank you so much Daisy, that’s kind of you to say. We won’t give up hope of him finding his way home one day.
How strange that grey/grey and white cats are “desirable”. What’s happens with those cats? Let’s hope that Spyro has a good home and that he didn’t have to go through some nasty experience.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleI do hope so Christer. It’s hard when a loved pet dies, but when they just disappear in the space of a couple of hours, and you don’t know what has happened to them, it tears at you, heart and soul. Trying to give them a happy ending is the very best you can do, but you never stop looking.
It is a sad story, so I am sorry to read it is a true one.
Thanks Susan, the part about him going missing is true, the rest is supposition or, at least, hope that nothing worse than that happened to him. Hope is all we have now.
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