My intuition. Last night I rang and left a message on the bosses phone, decided to have the day off on Monday today to spend with DH. Woke today and realised my burman cross cat 'Toby' was not on the bed. He was a wee bit grumpy with me last night as I groomed him before bed and he got out before I could lock the cat door.. DH told me I worry too much. yea right. I went over the road to where the bricklayers were working and asked if anyone had seen my boy.I walked up and down the road calling calling. Drove all over the area. No sign. When I got home DH was over the road, one house up from the builders, walking toward me with my Toby in his arms and one of the 'brickies' carrying a ladder. Toby had been up a 40ft high tree, way up at the top caught by his back legs in a v shaped fork of the tree. The young man had to climb the ladder and the tree to get him down. Toby has now used up 3 of his lives. Been hit by a car, 7 years ago,when he was 5 months old and his 'mummy' could not afford the vet bill so he was signed over to the vet, after his operation to fix his crushed femur, with 5 metal pins and screws in his leg, he came to live with me. bitten by a baby brown snake 5 years ago, while I was in Singapore and now caught up a tree. I just HAD to have today off work. Very badly shaken up and very quiet, sleeping in the bedroom, no effort to get outside. HE IS GROUNDED.House arrest for at least the next 12 hours. Huge sigh of relief. hugs Helen