Are They Accomodating Prowly?
Friday, August 16th, 2024 10:08 pm![]() |
66F and cloudy tonight.
Today started out sunny and hot, but it cooled off, got cloudy, and rained in the early evening.
I'm just back from my Friday night sneak up to the house.
Prowly's cat door is still there and it's still functional. And to boot, the back room AC unit's still in, and it was running tonight!.. and I'll get to that below.
The upstairs AC unit is also still in the window, though it's drooping for some reason, and it's not on.
On the side porch, they're storing a bunch of supplies, including white vinyl siding, and wall insulation, but amazingly, many of the kitchen chairs are now out there, along with my wet/dry vac, and my two saw horses.
My sconce lamps remain on the side porch, and they're using one to light the inside at night, in addition to the bulkhead light over the side stoop, so... that whole circuit I ran is still in use as/is.
My ring doorbell camera is also by the porch door now, rather than the front door.
The inside of the house is pitch dark, so I can't see what's going on inside at all.
out in the yard, my firepit is still there, and Natalie is also still there.
Hatch door 2.0 is also still there, though that whole corner by the basement is in the dark.
Pretty much nothing's changed on the outside of the house at all... same windows, including my custom storms for the livingroom.
So, it's intriguing that not only is the cat door still functional, but they left the back room A/C running for the whole weekend.
This could mean they're aware of Prowly, and are actually accomodating him!
Recall that on the morning of August 1st, I went to the house early to leave new moist food for Prowly on the kitchen table... not knowing they'd be taking the keys and doing a walk through without me, just two hours later.
So what they'd have seen on that walk through, downstairs, is a cat climber in dad's bedroom... moist food on a paper plate on the table, and dry food and water in bowls on a side stand... plus a nearly full case of moist food, and a nearly full bag of dry food.
And then, of course, the cat door.
What they thought of all that, I can't say, but it didn't stop them from signing and closing the sale an hour later.
So the questions here are...
- Did they throw that food away, on the 1st, assuming the cat in question was no longer around? Or...
- Did they leave that food sitting there, and then return on Friday to see that it had been eaten?
If it was option 1, then they wouldn't have known Prowly was still around, and may have ignored the cat door, thinking it was nothing of consequence.
If it was option 2, then they'd have known Prowly was still coming into the house at night, but chose not to block his access.
And if they did not want this cat coming inside, all they'd have needed to do was block off the cat door.
In other words, I don't think they somehow trapped him, and sent him to a shelter, then just left the cat door working, because they knew the cat was gone.
But the fact that they left the AC running in the back room for the weekend suggests very strongly, that it was for Prowly's sake.
Because for one, there'd be no reason at all to waste electricity cooling the back room over the weekend in an unoccupied house.
But for two, even if there was some reason to do that... you'd certainly block off the cat door, because that lets all the hot air right into the back room!
So the only reason to run it, but leave the cat door, I'd think, is because they know a cat is will be in there over the weekend, and they want to make sure it can cool off!
So I think it's option 2, and that for whatever reason, Torres is okay with accomodating Prowly... at least for now!
And if they're going to the trouble of running the AC... then I'd assume they're also leaving him the very food I left behind!
Prowly did make it into my walk-through video that I made for Offer Heroes at the start of the sale process.
And Mr. Taylor and I discussed him a couple times!
And there was that one walk through, right after I moved, where a man showed the house to a mexican guy and his daughter, and I asked the man, "Are they thinking of buying this house?"
He said they were.
And I told them about how Prowly was still around and I wasn't sure if I could catch him and asked jokingly if they were interested in adopting him if he came around after they moved in.
The Daughter was all for it, but the Dad was kinda shaking his head about it.
So... was that guy, Alex Torres, of Torres Properties LLC?
If so, then perhaps that daughter is responsible for Prowly's ongoing accomodations!
And if something like the above is going on... then have they actually met Prowly yet?
Or is he still only a phantom that comes in by night to eat?
It's all very intriguing!
But obviously Torres himself, and his daughter aren't going to be moving into the house, so what are their plans for when it sells?
Maybe they're doing exactly what I did, which is... just keep feeding him until you can't, and hope he can fend for himself after that.
But if so, then they'd at least know there was a chance the new owner might just adopt him, because... that's what they did.
Who knows?.. maybe his cat climber is still there, in the back room now!
They held on to some of the other shit!
This motivates me, anew, to be that buyer who moves in when they're done!
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