Questions and Possible Answers

            That’s when my sturdy meowing came in and I think everybody was happy I did.  After his sturdy questioning, the Mayor looked confused, besides that he needed a niptini break.  So, I gave my little pal a paw pat on the back and just asked her, “How did you get away?”

            At first she was confused, but I asked it again then it sunk in.  That’s okay I gave her a pass, the poor kitty had been through enough.  It was purr-fectly amazing how well she was hanging in there to begin with.  Now, her tail swished back and forth and she just told me that she didn’t know.  She hid when the fight was going on and she felt badly about it.  She thought she should’ve done something, like clawed her eyes out or something.

            This was when Barney’s good advice came in.  He reassured Midnight that there wasn’t anything that she could’ve done anyway.  It sounded like that this human was rotten to the core and might’ve hurt her badly.  Midnight kind of shivered when she heard this and the Sheriff even looked a little sick. 

            After a couple of minutes, the Mayor came back with niptinis.  (Midnight got milk.)  I was really glad to have the niptini, after hearing this poor kitty’s story and realizing that there was somebody abusing animals in a shelter made me sick!  I had a really bad feeling about this whole thing that maybe there was more to this than what she was saying.  So, I asked her if she thought there was but Midnight didn’t know.

            The Sheriff thought so though.  He thought that it sounded like that whoever killed Midnight’s mom had some help and probably worked in the shelter, abusing animals too.  Now, understand something; Smokey and I were strays, at one time, and Barney almost ended up in a shelter.  Mom saved him right from the parking lot.  When the Sheriff said this, Barney looked really sick.  “Why would anybody do that?”  he asked.  “We have to find out for sure.”