Keep telling myself - mice are the enemy
Oct. 19th, 2005 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brixtonbroodMice in the house are A BAD THING. Think about Weil's disease. Think about their insanitary habits. Think about Tiny crawling round on the floor.
Repeat after myself. "Good Cat! Good Cat! take it outside and eat it now please."
Do not scream, do not scream.
Honestly, how wet am I? Last night I did scream when I unexpectedly found one with a dead mouse, and she growled at me impressively - none of this "Here you are, take this prize as an act of tribute mistress!", more a "My Mouse! Mine. You will prize it from my cold dead jaws (with severely lacerated fingers)." growl. Did you know that cats could growl?
Today I was much better when I found her in the act of catching one, and just shooed her gently out of the cat flap (where she inevitably lost it in the garden). Still, a vast improvement on our late lamented original cat: the mice used to steal chunks of food from his food bowl and secrete them in inaccessible corners to rot.
Repeat after myself. "Good Cat! Good Cat! take it outside and eat it now please."
Do not scream, do not scream.
Honestly, how wet am I? Last night I did scream when I unexpectedly found one with a dead mouse, and she growled at me impressively - none of this "Here you are, take this prize as an act of tribute mistress!", more a "My Mouse! Mine. You will prize it from my cold dead jaws (with severely lacerated fingers)." growl. Did you know that cats could growl?
Today I was much better when I found her in the act of catching one, and just shooed her gently out of the cat flap (where she inevitably lost it in the garden). Still, a vast improvement on our late lamented original cat: the mice used to steal chunks of food from his food bowl and secrete them in inaccessible corners to rot.