I was wearing jeans and my iPhone 7 Plus is a huge phone that will fall out of my pants pocket in such situations, so I pulled it out and set it on the ledge of the toilet seat cover dispenser at about eye level.

 

Apparently, that’s where I left it.  I made a point through dinner of NOT pulling it out to check it every few minutes, as is my habit.  I was trying to stay present with my darling and just put the rest of the world out of my mind.  At the end of dinner I said I needed to pick up kale at the grocery and asked Howie to give me a list.  I reached for my phone to take down his selections and remembered I’d left it in the bathroom, right behind us.  When I went to get it, someone had taken it.

 

I checked with all the wait staff and manager, but no one turned it in.  Howie suggested I call it, but whoever took it knew to shut if off right away as Find My Phone can’t find the phone unless it was on.  There was plenty of battery left, so I knew it had been deliberately stolen.  That was about 7:15 PM and I was up until 1:30 AM today dealing with my stupid mistake.

 

First I had to remotely lock and erase the phone.  You can’t get into it without my finger print, but my whole world is on that phone, including every password for every thing I have to do.  Erasing it meant I wouldn’t be able to find it when the thief does turn it on, but Apple does have a pretty cool feature where you can have the lock screen say something, so I said, “I lost my phone.  Please call 813 493 4564 to return it.”  So, hopefully, when they try to activate the phone some dealer will know it’s stolen.  I had to pay off the $745.00 contract on the phone to “upgrade” to a lesser quality phone because they didn’t have the same storage in stock and I couldn’t wait.

 

I’ve had two bobcat calls yesterday, and things come in threes.  I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself if some bobcat was dying on the side of the road last night because I chose to wait until morning to get the phone I really needed.  Thankfully, the bobcat calls I got were not requiring my immediate attention.  One was a woman in TX who said she’d recently come into possession of an elderly house cat she thought was a bobcat.  The photos she sent confirmed that, so I told her what I needed in order to import the cat to FL and she’s not returned that message yet.

 

The second was a woman and a vet in IL who had to amputate the leg from a hit by car bobcat.  He can’t go back to the wild, so they wanted to be sure someone would take a really mean bobcat and give him a good home.  I told them we would, but that it would require their Department of Natural Resources and mine approving it.  They said they would do that, but again, no call back.

 

Hi, I’m Carole Baskin and I’ve been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/

 

I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.  

 

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Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk