A Mouse in the House
by matt @ 10:34 pm. Blogged under Living and Dying
Tonight we received a welcome-home present from our youngest cat ‘Bella’. Whilst watching Panorama’s rather unsurprising investigation into the dodgy GSK drug trials, the cat flap slowly creaked open and in clambered our fluffy cat with a mouse in her mouth. I don’t know if she was trying to be ironic given the topic of our television viewing, but this was certainly no pharmaceutical knockout-mouse. I wasn’t about to let her start experimenting with it in the house so had to mount a mouse rescue operation.
Having grabbed Bella and removed her from the dining room, and then removed cat number two ‘Mindy’ (who had slept through the whole commotion), I had to get this speedy little furball into a box. The whole mission involved cordoning off the corner of the room with boxes, lifting the freezer full of food whist Suzie_Q poked around with a stick. In the end our terror victim hopped into my small box and I took it out and released it up the road in a hedge (having first secured the cat flap).
When I got back inside Suzie_Q asked me where I had released the hostage, I whispered the answer quietly into her ear - our cats aren’t stupid, you have to be very careful what you say in front of them. Thinking about it, we found about seven mice under the sofa last year - dead from shock presumably as they had no obvious injuries - now we know the likely culprit.
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