About This Book
Born in a hay loft in a local barn in San Diego county, Toby spends his formative years in luxury and comfort, exploring the wooded hills of rural Valley Center, California. Toby grows and thrives under the loving watchful eye of his "woman," her anxious husband and the family's loving German Shepherd. A financial crisis necessitates a move. While his "woman" and man negotiate relocation, Toby is temporarily transitioned to the daughter's home in a busy urban town, where he is more or less rejected and ignored. His dog friend no longer with him, the confused and distressed orange tabby is hauled through the Mojave Desert in August en route to Florida, which almost does him in. In Florida, with his people and dog friend, Toby does his best to adjust to alien territory and eather and relearns new hunting techniques. A subsequent move back to southern Californa is short-lived. Toby and his family relocate to northwestern Iowa. Now totally out of his element and positioned in an air conditioned house among strange folks, a distraught Toby, after continually hassled by the two, resident territorial terriers, flees the scene. Lonely and lost in Iowa farm country, the orange tabby struggles to survive and longs for his own "woman" to come for him. When the fierce cold of Iowa winter sweeps in, Toby has all he can do to hang on.
