The Journey

 

       Late at night a cat was chasing a rat. So while he was chasing the varmint,

 he ran out of his front door. He ran and ran until he reached an ally way. Then his collar caught on something and it popped off with a click. The cat did not know where his collar had gone. The rat scurried into a nearby hole. The cat then noticed he was in a strange and new place. He was distressed so he curled onto an old beat up mattress and went to sleep.

 The next day he got up and walked just outside the ally way. He saw lots of dogs and then one of the dogs saw him! Suddenly the dog started barking and running toward the cat and the others followed along with him. Then the cat jumped up and over the first dog and had to dodge numerous slobbery mouths. The dogs seemed very anxious to catch him so the cat ran faster. He looked back and the dogs were still chasing him! While he was running he saw something familiar. It was his collar that he had lost when he had chased the rat! He picked up the collar and continued to run. The dogs finally gave up the chase and walked back to where it all had started.

The cat squeezed his head back through the collar and started looking for signs of home. Finally he supposedly saw a truck that passes his house every day, so he ran to it and jumped into the back. It ended up not being the truck he thought it was. It was a milk truck! So he drank some of the extra milk dripping from the bottle and since there was a string on the bottle he picked it up and jumped out of the truck. He looked for his way back home.

He thought if he went back in the direction he had found the collar he might find his way home. When he found his footprints in the dirt he decided to follow them. While he was following the footprints he looked up and saw an eagle swooping in to catch him. He started to sprint so the bird wouldn't catch him. When the bird tried to get the cat he scratched the bird and the bird picked him up anyways and brought him to his nest to feed him to the bird's babies. A few seconds after the cat arrived baby birds started pecking him. So while the cat was hitting them away he fell backwards onto the next branch down. The cat had an idea. The cat started jumping branch to branch getting closer and closer to ground.

 Finally he got down and saw his house. So the cat limped forward until he reached his home. He scratched on the door until his owner opened it. When he did the cat frantically ran and stumbled to his cat bed. Once he got to his bed the cat was exhausted and went to sleep almost immediately.

Anneliese/ Black's Class