The screen door on the front door has a stop on the pneumatic plunger and this stop will migrate time to time so the screen door will not latch when closed. This condition was discovered the other day but I immediately fixed that. Usually RePete will come by and 'visit' with me when I am watching TV or will come to the 'puter room to stay with me while I am on the puter. He did not show up. So I went looking for him. I searched all his hidy holes, there are a few around here but he was not there. I all but turned this house upside down and did not find him. The only conclusion I could come to was RePete tried the unlatched screen door and was able to get out. Yet all the time I was outside I was in full view of that door and felt I would have seen him if he got out, but the possibility existed. No RePete. Next day there still was no sign of him. Again I turned this house upside down with negative results. Damn! For sure I thought he got out and was gone. I really didn't believe that but there was no other explanation. I had business to do on the west end so did that. When I got home I again searched for RePete with no success. I was pretty much resolved to the notion he was gone. I went to the computer to check e-mail and felt this cold nose on my ankle, it was RePete ! That little )*$&)(# found a new hidy hole that is so darn good I could not find it. Was so glad to see him that I only dunked him once into the hot tar and feathers for what he did. Right now he is curled up next to me and I am happy to have him there. Ahhhhhhh! Gordon and RePete Rev. J. Gordon Bengtson Aarrow Ranch Aviation Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111 [Posted in FML 5590]