So I start to sit down to a bit of late night video game playing and I hear Shannon call down the stairs. I hear her come down the stairs and she tells me that there is a whole in the screen and Freyja is missing.
This is not what you want to hear at 10:45 at night.
I quick save my game, head upstairs, put on some sandals, quick grab my house keys and follow Shannon out the door.
It didn't take us long before we hear her mews and whines. Freyja was really expressing herself. The problem was we knew where she was in the area, but not where. Shannon is shining my big mag light in the pine tree between our's and the neighbor's home. I stop and listen and I think I hear more from my left ear, rather then my right (house on the left, tree on the right). So I get the flashlight and start shining it on the low part of the roof (above what I assume was a kitchen addition), then up e steep roof line of our house. At the very peak of the roof, there are her glowing eyes reflecting back.
So the problem, now, is how do we get her down. We don't have a ladder that high, not by a long shot. So we head around to the deck on the back of the house. The deck is a quarter to half story above the main level. So we relocate Freyja and she is going between the edge and the vent (?) on the house. So we tap on the base of the roof hoping she can just gently walk down with our encouragement.
This did not work as we expected. Shortly after she leaves the peak she starts to slide down. You can hear her claws (back paws, front declaw) run along the roof. I caught her about midway between the kitchen back door and the west side of the house. I cuddle her up (so she can't jump away) and there are a few meows, som hisses and some other odd noises. We head around the house and get her back inside and begin to check her over. At first we think she just needs a good brushing. After a bit, I notice that there are some blood stains on my white undershirt.
So Shannon pulls out some flour (say what) and says that it can help bind up the injury. We checked her all over and it appears as if she absolutely shredded her rear claws as she was coming down the roof. Several of her rear claws were damaged down to the quick. Shannon even them out a bit and then covered the rest of them with a bit of flour. After a couple of patches, we let her go to wander around the house. All the windows were lowered to one notch (barely open) and now we kind of need to figure out what we are going to do there. There's a big hole in the screen.
After spending a good chunk of time on Shannon's lap (I think Freyja's a bit angry with me, because I held her while Shannon cleaned up her claws) and then some time on my shoulder, she's calmed down and napping on the couch, at least she was napping until I took this picture.
