BoJangles the Escapee

I have to tell you a funny story ... On Thursday when I came home from work I accidentally left the door open a crack and didn't know it. So I sat on the couch for probably an hour and a half checking my email and reading the news. And Matt was upstairs working on some paperwork.  This whole time I am thinking " where is the cat?" because he normally wants to cuddle and get some love. So I get up to make dinner and then I notice that there is cold air coming from the front door - I go look and IT'S OPEN!  So I yell at Matt to go look for Bojangles and after 10 minutes he comes back in and says that he can't find him - also it is like 20 degrees outside. So I put on my new rain boots and my coat and I go searching for him. I was walking around the whole neighborhood and I couldn't find him. In the process I walk over to where the woods begin at the end of the street and I see something that is orange so I go running to it and calling  his name. When I get closer I notice that it is a lot bigger than my cat and it stops to look at me and it is A FOX! Now at this point I really wished I had a gun because I would like a fur  scarf at some point but none the less the fox is kind of looking at me like "What? I am a fox, big deal. I dare you to try to catch me crazy lady."  and turns and walks away slowly. Now I am like starting to freak out - what if the fox ate my cat? I run back to the house screaming at Matt there is a fox outside and that the cat is probably dead by now. So he comes running down stairs and we get flashlights and go look for him again. Matt starts going down the side of the street that I hadn't checked out yet and I go in to the backyard to see if the cat is in the park behind our house. When I go in the back yard and I am like calling him in a whisper because everything echoes in the neighborhood and I notice out of the corner of my eye that there is something sitting at the sliding glass door of the neighbor's house. I look closer and it is our stupid cat looking in to the neighbors house through their window - just sitting there like he wants to go in. They had to have seen him at some point (even though it is dark). So we try to trap him and what does he do? He runs under the fence to the other yard. So we try to trap him again and he goes back under the other fence. This goes on for a few minutes - the whole time Matt and I are in two of our neighbor's yards trying to stay away from the windows so they don't know we are standing on their property. Anyways, we finally catch him and throw him inside. He is very naughty. But the good news is that there is a fox that lives in our neighborhood and next time we meet I will have my crossbow ready because momma needs a new fur coat.