"We just stole your cat..."

...our very nice new neighbors announced as they crossed the street to our yard.

We already knew. It had been kind of a joke earlier in the summer and had been growing more obvious as the weeks went on.

Snowball, (we would later discover was his third name) had moved away from his former family around the block to live at our house several years earlier. They got a baby and a dog and he was outta there! It was bound to happen again. You see, Snowball is a neighbor whore.

He's a wonderfully kind and genial black cat. Why Snowball? Because he has a distinctive white patch of fur on his right flank. He looks like he's been hit in the @$$ with a snowball. Not very creative, but somewhat ironic. He had been hanging around the neighbor's porch instead of ours. When called, he no longer comes over.
**sigh**

I will certainly miss him. Though he's not far, and we all joked that we can come visit him anytime, he's still gone. And he is one to remember.

Sayanara, Snowball! Miranda and Jeff, enjoy his company!

Sarah