Thanks for the kind words everyone.
Just got an update... The other cat was found hiding under a bed and they got it out safe. It will take months to repair the home but is livable although smoky smelling. When it rains it pours… Also found out their daughter and her family got into a car accident on their way back home to Philadelphia.
SIL likes to come up in the summer for the pool and some wine. I have to fix one part of the fence this weekend but when she comes up there will be a nice big fenced in area for the dogs to run.
Yesterday the wife was working in one of her flower gardens when she saw a chipmunk fall into the pool. She couldn’t get it out and called the older daughter who retrieved it from the pool all wet and soggy but full of life. Maybe the dang thing should have stuck to eating all my bird seed and left the glass of beer alone.