I’d never talked to my Wedgwood neighbors until Juno got out. It was a whole ordeal, kind of dire really, because she was very much in heat. That’s when a female cat reaches sexual maturity and is ready to procreate. And procreate. And procreate.
One of the symptoms of a cat being in heat is that she will do anything to escape the confines of the house. My roommates and I did not know that. We did not know anything about cats in heat, actually. We know a lot now.
My roommate Nicole and I had to summon the courage to knock on doors in our mostly-single-family-house neighborhood. We knocked on doors, like, “Hey, we’re the only under-30s in your neighborhood, you’ve probably seen us passing a bong back and forth through that big window? Since we don’t close the blinds? Anyway, have you seen our cat? She’s gone.” It was trying.
