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So Long Squeaky.
Sep. 1st, 2006 04:55 amAs I slept in so much due to this damned cold, I'm still not asleep yet. I just went downstairs a few minutes ago to get a snack and some more green tea, when I saw ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shreddy our tom cat pacing frantically around our roll-away dishwasher.
Now a house with two cats is not supposed to have mice, but I had wondered for some time if we might have actually have some in our kitchen asshreddy has recently taken to sleeping in there and I've often seen him sitting and just staring at the stove. Curious to see if there really was a mouse or if the cat had just batted a toy under it, I moved the dishwasher a few feet to the side.
I half expected to see a mouse make a sudden break for the hallway or stove area, but was rather surprised to see a small grey mouse just sitting there on the floor. A moment later the cat saw it too, and it was suddenly cat food. Well, more like a cat toy. I think Shreddy would love to have some kind of pet that he could keep in a box and let out whenever he wanted something to chase.
Years ago when he somehow caught a bird in the house he kept trying to find a box he could put it in and close the flaps so it wouldn't escape. All the time he was making a funny mewing noise around the bird. He behaved the exact same way with this mouse but I could tell it was already dead and would not be a pet for Shreddy. By the time I got my snack and headed upstairs, he had dropped it on the floor and was batting it to see if it would go.
I must admit I'm of two minds about how to think about all this. On the one hand it was a cute mouse but on the other hand I don't want a mouse colony living in my kitchen either.
shreddy our tom cat pacing frantically around our roll-away dishwasher. Now a house with two cats is not supposed to have mice, but I had wondered for some time if we might have actually have some in our kitchen as
shreddy has recently taken to sleeping in there and I've often seen him sitting and just staring at the stove. Curious to see if there really was a mouse or if the cat had just batted a toy under it, I moved the dishwasher a few feet to the side.I half expected to see a mouse make a sudden break for the hallway or stove area, but was rather surprised to see a small grey mouse just sitting there on the floor. A moment later the cat saw it too, and it was suddenly cat food. Well, more like a cat toy. I think Shreddy would love to have some kind of pet that he could keep in a box and let out whenever he wanted something to chase.
Years ago when he somehow caught a bird in the house he kept trying to find a box he could put it in and close the flaps so it wouldn't escape. All the time he was making a funny mewing noise around the bird. He behaved the exact same way with this mouse but I could tell it was already dead and would not be a pet for Shreddy. By the time I got my snack and headed upstairs, he had dropped it on the floor and was batting it to see if it would go.
I must admit I'm of two minds about how to think about all this. On the one hand it was a cute mouse but on the other hand I don't want a mouse colony living in my kitchen either.
