# Missing cat, spooky cat
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 11, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432 "2012-10-11T16:49:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432/1 "2012-10-11T16:49:18Z")
The SO hides my gargoyles, so as not to give the occasional visitor the right impression of me. One of them is a cool cat gargoyle. It’s shaped such that its paws and head hang over a shelf. (i.e., the paws and head are lower than the base.) The SO was using it as a curtain weight and it fell, breaking the tip of one of the wings. I thought, ‘Hm. I have some grey mouldable epoxy. Maybe I can sculpt a new wingtip to replace the one we never found.’
But the SO is decorating for Halloween. She said, ‘Where’s the cat?’ One of us put it somewhere, and now my cat gargoyle has gone missing. (The other alternative is that it hid itself.) I can’t buy a new one, since I got it a dozen years ago and all of the ones I see for sale now are ‘cute’ and not ‘vicious’. Grrr…
In other news, the live cat (which does not have wings, and is not a gargoyle) has taken to staring at a corner of the deactivated fireplace in my bedroom. (The fireplace hasn’t been used in a couple of decades, and I had the crumbling chimney demolished last year.) He’s freakin’ me out, man.
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### Author:  [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432/2 "2012-10-11T16:52:05Z")
Your live cat got jealous and now the gargoyle-kitty is bricked behind the fireplace, muahaha.
But the cat can still it’s NOW-BEATING HEART!!!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432/3 "2012-10-11T17:13:44Z")
The cat wouldn’t know the difference between a gargoyle and a carved grotesque!
(Nice blending of two great stories, BTW. 🙂 )
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432/4 "2012-10-11T18:49:12Z")
Little Ball of Fur…
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### Author:  [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432/5 "2012-10-11T19:17:43Z")
Scary kitty, creepy kitty,
Purr, purr, purr.
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432/6 "2012-10-11T21:44:37Z")
You only need to worry if spooky cat says to you in an eerie voice, “They’re heeeeere.”
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432/7 "2012-10-11T22:44:25Z")
> [@Shayna](#):
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> You only need to worry if spooky cat says to you in an eerie voice, “They’re heeeeere.”
I think I’d worry if a cat said that to me in _any_ voice other than a “meow”!
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432/8 "2012-10-11T23:14:31Z")
The last time the cat took to staring at something and I ignored it, I ended up cleaning a mouse nest and its associated excrement from the pots and pans drawer of my stove. Just saying.
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### Author:  [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-cat-spooky-cat/637432/9 "2012-10-11T23:58:52Z")
> [@Finagle](#):
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> The last time the cat took to staring at something and I ignored it, I ended up cleaning a mouse nest and its associated excrement from the pots and pans drawer of my stove. Just saying.
This ^
I’d bet money there’s something scritching about in your deactivated fireplace, probably not your gargoyle kitty though.