The Tuxedo Cat at Trapp Family Lodge

While vacationing at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, Marash Girl received an unexpected phone call from the neighbor staying in the villa down the mountainside.  The woman at the other end of the line was desperate.  She cried out over the telephone:  "There's a tuxedo cat here.  Is it yours?  I've called everyone and I can't find its owner.  Somebody has abandoned this cat.  I know it! We summer on Cape May in New Jersey and folks are always abandoning their pets there.  The sea grass is full of feral cats.  And this is Friday; someone has left the Trapp Family Lodge and abandoned a tuxedo cat.  Please come and adopt it, please!"

Marash Girl replied:  "Have you called the main lodge to see if they know whose cat it is?"

Woman:  "No, I don't want to.  They'll send the cat away and it will be put to sleep.  No pets are allowed here!"

Marash Girl:  "I'll be right down to take a look."

When Marash Girl saw the beautiful, black, well-groomed, sleek tuxedo cat, she knew that the cat had not been abandoned, but her neighbor down the mountainside kept insisting that Marash Girl adopt the cat and take it home.  Marash Girl finally convinced the woman to call the main lodge.

The woman called, only to discover that the cat belonged to Sam Von Trapp, who had gone away for a few days and left the cat in the keeping of the lodge.

Thank goodness the woman had been unable to convince Marash Girl to "steal" Sam Von Trapp's beautiful tuxedo cat!