A House Full of Cats
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Cat
By Skyler Burns-Cranfield

If the Universe had a place for everything and everything was in its place, there would be little demand for humor.
~Samuel McChord Crothers

It was a beautiful day in the country, just a little way outside Knoxville, Tennessee. My husband, my stepsister, and I were on a job at a new customer’s house. We were installing luxury vinyl plank flooring throughout some of the main living areas of their home, which included installing some on the first floor and some downstairs in the basement.

The customer let us know that he was leaving for work and that a cat was hiding somewhere in the house and not to let him out.

After about an hour, my stepsister Candice went outside to get more boxes of flooring. When she came back, I opened the door to let her in since she had her hands full. As she walked through the door, out ran the customer’s cat who wasn’t supposed to be let outside. So we all dropped what we were doing and tried to round up this extremely fast cat. We couldn’t catch up with him, unfortunately. (Keep reading)