The Cat

Our one cat likes to hide on us.  She has a better spot than we know.  I hadn't seen the cat since the night before and was starting to get worried.  I looked in all the closets first as she likes to hide in them.  She waits till your not looking and jumps in.   Not in the closets or under the beds.  One room is closed off with a five foot gate.  She can't get in there without the gate making noise so there is no sense in going in there to look.  I had just finished cleaning that room the day before and want it to stay that way for just a little bit.  Next comes the basement.  She loves the chair.  Not there.  I can't find her in any of the cats hiding spots.  I know she didn't get out.  How am I going to tell everyone the cat disappeared?  I stopped looking for a while but stayed on alert for her.  By 7:00 that night I gave up.  She didn't even come up for the rattling of the food container.  This isn't good.  I put food in all the cat's dishes and when I turned around she was there.  She actually scared me.  Oh good, now I can stop worrying.  I did ask her where she was hiding and the only way she would answer my question was by saying, "Meow!"