text:  He said, yes, I look at the lost and found column in the local paper, and I see it lengthens just before local quakes. Well, I almost hung up on him, because I'm a scientist, you know, and this is so outlandish, and I've weathered many outlandish ideas and suggestions from others. But this one threw me until suddenly it's like I really had that light bulb sort of appear over my head. Our cat, Rocky, had disappeared six days before the strongest quake since 1911, and I hadn't associated him disappearing.