BAD mama!

Poor little Duncan!  He spent the night trapped in the closet in the spare bedroom!  With all the sorting and clearing out I've been doing, I've been in and out of that closet and USUALLY I'm very good about making sure he's not in there when I close the door but somehow or other I missed him yesterday.  I'm not sure how long he was in there simply because I can't remember when I was in there last, but when I went to bed last night he didn't come in for our snuggle time but that's not all that unusual since I've been giving him his ear drops -- some nights he's just too pissed to cuddle with me! -- but when I got up this morning and put his food out and he still didn't come running, I knew something was wrong!  I could hear meowing but it seemed so faint that at first I thought it was a cat outside.  I never would have heard him last night between the tv and the air conditioners running but at 10:00 a.m. everyone has pretty much gone to work so the house is pretty quiet.  Following the sounds, I realized quite quickly that it was coming from inside the house and it was my poor little boy.  When I opened the door to the closet, there he was looking all confused -- he had no idea what he'd done to deserve being shut up in "kitty jail" all night!  I would never lock him in a closet no matter what he'd done or how bad he'd been but he seemed to think he'd been REALLY bad!  I scooped him up and gave him hugs and kisses all the while telling him how sorry I was and what a good boy he was -- he'd pulled stuff off the shelves but after all that time, he never messed in the closet! -- and took him in the kitchen so he could have his breakfast.  Poor little guy was starving after his ordeal!  He gobbled his breakfast down, took a long drink of water and then came over and laid down at my feet as if to apologize for being a bad boy!  Well, that was all it took -- I was a mess!  I picked him up, cuddled the daylights out of him and bawled my eyes out -- and he never tried to get away, even tho mama was getting his fur all wet!  It took a huge effort to put his ear drops in this morning -- I felt like I was punishing him all over again! -- but he was so contrite that he never made a sound and never struggled, just let me put the drops in without a single complaint, which just made me feel even worse!  Unfortunately, I had my hair appointment this morning so I had to leave him but we've been snuggling all day to make up for his being locked in that closet!  Now I'm going to be even more vigilant about making sure he's not in a closet before I close it!