A little 5 year old red headed girl comes up to me in my yard. She asks me if I saw her cat. I asked her what color was her cat and she said black. I told her no, but I would keep an eye out. No mom was in site. Several minutes later a lady comes up and asks me about the cat, and says the child is hers.
I told her I did not see the cat, but told her about the one we are caring for now that has been around for a while. She wanted to see my cat, so I showed her. She claimed it was once her cat. I told her we have been caring for this cat for months and when she had her kittens we were caring for them too. She acted like she might want the cat back. I told her she would have to take that up with my husband, he was growing attached to the cats and might not want to give them up. Meanwhile she is not watching her kid who was running all over my yard and in the culvert.
Later I went out and got takeout.
I came home and saw the lady again and asked her if she had found her cat, she said calmly no, but asked me if I had seen her little girl, she had disappeared right after we had talked.
I put my food in the house grabbed a flashlight, asked her the child's name and started searching for the child. It was after dark!
The mom went back the other way and I went right from my home. I heard someone yell farther down the way "Have you lost a little girl?" They had heard me calling the child's name. I said "Yes!" Her mother is trying to find her. So I went to the house........mind you it was 10 houses down... and the lady was frantic and pissed!
She said I came home and found this little girl in my house! She had somehow got over my 9 foot fence and says someone had threw her into my POOL! She is soaking wet and we have called the cops! Is she yours? I said no, I was just trying to help the mom find her. She asked me if I knew the mother........I said I only met her today when she was looking for a cat.
The cops were on their way.
I yelled down the street at the mom and said we had found her, and she came slowly to the house. No rush, no stress, no concern. The lady told her that her hands were shaking, she had came home, her house was trashed, and the little girl was in her house soaking wet! She said she could have died in the pool and I would have come home to a dead child! The woman was reasonably shaken. The mother said, just send her out and we will take her home.
The woman who found her said, "NO Mam!", I won't release her till the cops arrive!" My house was broken into and trashed, she could have died!"
Then the mom of the child said, "Well she(referring to me) was talking to me, I did not know where she went, I thought she went home!" She said it in such a way, like I was the one responsible for the child wandering off!
After I tried to help her! 
She looked at her daughter and said, well, looks like we won't be going on that trip tomorrow! That was her concern........the trip. Not her child almost drowning, not her child breaking into someone's home and trashing it, and not that the child had been gone over an hour and God knows who or what could have hurt her!
She was upset about her trip! Stupid woman! She is not getting the cat back. She has lost 2 cats, both getting pregnant because she won't spay them, and most of all takes no responsibility or care for her own child! She was still looking for that cat!
When the cops came, I left, I felt I had nothing to contribute, I told one cop what little I knew and went home.
