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I was kneeling at the front door in my house. Suddenly my old cat walked up onto the porch. (She was put to sleep the day before the World Trade Center was destroyed.) When I saw her walk up, my first reaction was amazement that she somehow found her way all the way home. She had been surviving in the wild for 2 years, and I could tell. Her fur changed from brown-black to gray-green, and when I went to pet her, I felt that her skeletal or muscular structure has tensed up notably. This did not seem healthy. I turned around to start telling my dad to go get some food, but I had great difficulty in physically getting the words out, and he did not seem to be responding anyway.