Cookie has been missing for 97 hours now
I have a knot in my stomach that won't go away. Not a good sign but we'll do more hunting tonight.
Still no update. I'm not devout but I am now praying to St. Anthony, a Catholic who lived from August 15th 1195 to June 13th 1231 A.D.
He was prayed to by people who had lost precious things & is still, to this day, invoked & venerated all over the world as the patron saint for the recovery of lost items.
Please Saint Tony. Please bring me back my Cookie. Bring it back gentle.
Cookie has now been missing for 97 hours.
I've done all the online sh*t i can do, tomorrow it's old school technique time. Flyers & phone calls. I've also been walking around my neighbourhood with a bag of Temptations calling "Cookie! Cookie!"
It hasn't worked yet but few things in life do.
Have you ever read Better To Have Never Been? It's a Philosophy book written by a nihilistic, people-hating professor from the University of Cape Town.
It's two main arguments are:
1. Most people overrate their lives by several orders of magnitude.
2. Coming into existence actually does people harm, and not in the sense of "does more harm than good." Benatar argues that becoming a human being (a decision made without your consent, by the way) causes you harm, in a myriad of ways, throughout your life. his opinion is that it would be better to never have been, an odd mental position for a man who makes $18,616 049 South African rand per year, which is roughly equivalent to $1,000 000 U.S.D. per annum, to hold.
I guess $ can’t buy happiness, eh?
Maybe only cats can.
It’s a convincing book but if I can have my cat back I will go to church every Sunday for the rest of my life. I'll never drink root beer again. i'll never eat another ice cream cone again. I'll burn my copy of Better to Have Never Been.
I Promise. Just please give me my cat back.
I got Cookie in Aug 2020, less than 24 hours after getting divorced. He helped me through a very difficult time in my life and for that he’s my best friend in the world.
I am currently praying that he is safe & that I'll see him again. Tomorrow I’m posting flyers the old school way. Today & the day before I contacted the Toronto Humane Society, 4 other animal shelters, posted on my local Lost & Found (Cats Only) Facebook Page, Twitter/X, Substack & Instagram.
If you’ve seen Cookie, please find it in your heart to email courtneyvanderploeg@gmail.com or call me @ 416.992.4299 & let me know where/when you saw him. And if you really wanna to be a hero, you could try to get him to follow you, but if you call & tell me where he is I will Uber there faster than Ray Liotta’s get back to the titular Copland, which is actually called Garrison, New Jersey.
In a crisis, the two people on opposite ends of the 20th Century that you want are Ray Liotta:
And Ernest Shackleton:
Now, Cookie's an indoor cat & initially shy around strangers but soon becomes quite friendly. He is the most vocal cat I’ve ever had. He’s also the most affectionate animal I’ve known.
I live @ Annette & Durie (nearest major intersection Annette & Runnymede) but I will travel to the furthest reaches of Siberia if it means getting my cat back. I hate the thought of Cookie out there alone, scared and hungry, so, if you would, please keep an eye out & thank you in advance
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