Oscar came to us this time last year. It was lovely summery weather (very odd for April) and me and my boyfriend were having scrambled egg in the back garden. There's a plank missing from the fence that our back gate is on, and this little set of eyes appeared accompanied by a miaow that I swear I'd been hearing for days but never seen anything. Then, up he hopped over the fence, and onto the picnic bench, trying to pinch our eggs
He was very thin, but healthy enough. Anyway, he marched straight into the house and basically never left! We kept putting him back out just in case he found his way back home or his owners were looking for him. But he just kept on coming back
Anyway one day we thought he'd gone. He disappeared for 4 days and I was gutted. I came home from uni hoping and hoping he'd come back. And there he was! Turns out he'd ran into an unoccupied house down the road and got himself locked in. One of the neighbours saw him in the window and drove round the area looking for the van he'd seen outside the house. He found it (thank God for compassionate neighbours!) and got Ozzy out. Oscar had left a little package for them in the bathroom - easy to clean up, bless him. And back he came, and never left again!
Around the same time he arrived, my boyfriend's aunt had been to see a psychic who knew that her nephew had just moved into a new house. The psychic said that the house had been 'overseen' by someone who had passed (he described my bf's nan down to a T) and that it was going to be a lucky house. I like to play with the notion that Oscar is a little housewarming present
Ooops, long post Oscar's life story!! Let's hear some of yours