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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
CAs: Owner returned
to Suttle Lake from
Sherwood repeatedly
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the indoor-only cat, quietly
escaped from their travel
trailer sometime during the
night on Friday, June 2.
“That night we were sit-
ting around the campfire
with friends, it’s one of our
favorite things to do. We had
the door open but the screen
door closed so we could see
the cats inside the trailer,”
Andrade said.
The next morning the
Andrade’s couldn’t find
Hamilton anywhere in the
trailer.
“I searched every nook
and cranny, because once we
found him hiding inside the
cabinet below the sink. But
he wasn’t there. It was then I
realized that he somehow got
out during the night,” Neal
said.
On Sunday, after search-
ing for Hamilton the entire
weekend, the Andrades had
to leave and returned to
Sherwood.
After reading that lost cats
will sometimes return to the
spot they started out in after a
few days, Neal returned to the
South Shore campground the
following Tuesday afternoon.
“I camped in my Chevy
pickup next to where we lost
him, but no luck.”
Once an indoor cat finds
himself in the great outdoors,
he may panic at finding him-
self in foreign territory and go
into a complete defense mode
by hiding from everything
and anything — including his
pet parent.
Andrade and his wife
returned to South Shore
campground to set a humane
trap the following Saturday.
They slept in their Toyota
Camry at the campground.
Andrade made up fliers
with Hamilton’s photo on
them and posted them at all
three campgrounds, Suttle
Lake Lodge & Boathouse
Resort, and the day-use area
the following weekend.
“Tammy and Neal worked
with the camp host and could
leave a live trap where they
had camped,” said Karly
Drake-Lusby, who works in
guest services at Suttle Lake
Lodge. “Neal brought over a
stack of flyers and I sent them
to all our friends around the
lake. Even our management
team was on the lookout for
Hamilton.”
The camp host would
check the live trap each day.
It was a team effort.
On June 13, a construc-
tion worker took a video of
a cat inside one of the cabins
that is being renovated. And a
few days later when Andrade
returned he talked to the con-
struction worker and saw the
video.
“Although the video
wasn’t very good quality, I
knew right away that it was
Hamilton!” he said
On June 16 and 17, Neal
Andrade returned to South
Shore campground in the
Camry with Sweetpea to look
for Hamilton. Again, no luck.
“I had to return home on
Saturday, June 17, but before
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I got there, I received a phone
call from Ashley, a bartender
at Suttle Lake Lodge. She
reported seeing Hamilton
the night before. I continued
home to drop off Sweatpea,
then back on the road up to
Suttle Lake again to move the
trap over a mile away to the
Lodge where Ashley sighted
him.”
Staff sightings contin-
ued. Hamilton was alive and
nearby. The Andrades con-
tinued their search, return-
ing from Sherwood every
weekend.
On Thursday, June 29,
the staff at Suttle Lodge &
Boathouse reported seeing
Hamilton in the parking lot
and bushes. And the fol-
lowing day Neal once again
returned to Suttle Lake with
hope.
Andrade set a second trap
close to where he was spotted
a couple of days earlier and
spent most the night search-
ing the areas he had been
seen.
On Saturday, July 1 at 5
a.m. Andrade checked the
first trap near the cabin, noth-
ing. Then he walked over to
the second trap to find his
missing cat Hamilton.
“When I got to my office
on July 1, I saw the corner of a
flyer sticking out from under
my door. The word ‘lost’ had
been replaced with ‘found,’”
Lusby said. “Joy ensued! The
whole staff was cheering, it
was a super-happy day for all
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Hamilton is safe and healthy after a month on his own at Suttle Lake.
of us.”
Especially for Hamilton.
He is now safe at home
after getting checked by the
vet and is relatively healthy
— no fleas or ticks found on
him.
“Thank you to all the
staff at Suttle Lake Lodge &
Boathouse for their prayers,
support, and help during the
month of June,” Andrade
said. “They were very gra-
cious and friendly to us dur-
ing our time there searching
for our lost cat.”
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