Pete the hospital cat caught a mouse!!!

Unfortunately I was not there to see it.  I heard it from Mike, a
coworker of mine.  He had walked into the breakroom and saw Pete
staring intently at something behind a box.  Pete pounces and Mike
sees Pete holding a mouse in his mouth.

Mike stares open mouthed for a moment while Pete tosses the mouse up
in the air and bats it across the room.  The mouse hits the floor,
stunned and runs back behind the box.  Pete then hunkers down, staring
at the box   First one side, then he would run around to the the other
side.  Eventually he caught the mouse again and proceeded to bat it
around, pick it up in his mouth and bat it again.

Finally, Mike came to his senses and tried to get Pete to stop.  Pete
still was batting the mouse around and had it in his mouth when Mike
picked him up by the scruff with one hand and held out a cup with his
other.

"Pete, drop it!  Drop the mouse!!"  

Remember when Sylvester the cat would shove Tweety Bird in his mouth
and suddenly would get picked up by someone who would slap him on the
back and he would spit out Tweety?

That's kinda close to what this looked like.  Mike is holding Pete by
the scruff and holding out a cup, trying to get Pete to open his mouth
and drop the mouse in to the cup.

Finally, Pete relented and spit out the mouse, who somehow had managed
to be unharmed throughout this whole thing.  Mike then took the mouse
outside and let it go.

Man, I so wish I could have been there.  Pete was in a sulky mood for
the rest of the afternoon.

Su-Ling the Siamese is back.  If she's not curled up taking a nap,
she's howling for attention.  I gotta admit, she is a beautiful kitty.

We also have Mao, a BIG white kitty who is boarding.  Mao has
diabetes, probably from being so overweight.  He's about the size of a
small frozen turkey.  The chart said he was 14 pounds, but I don't buy
that.  When he meatloafs, it's like the meatloaf is on steroids.
sheesh!!  But he is cute.

I finally get two days off from working at the clinic.  It's quite
tiring, but at least I'll be able to relax for two days.  Then I have
to work at 7 am on Saturday.  *sigh*

Take care,

Kristi