There's not a lot of live prey in an apartment in Florida, but Tessie
managed to find some... I opened the cupboard in the livingroom and
she darted in, then out again - only when she came out she wasn't
alone!

The apartment next door to us has been vacant the whole time we've
lived here, and the builders are in there this week renovating, and
they scared the bugs (ick) and one of them crawled through a hole or
something...

I didn't see Tessie dart out of the cupboard so I was calling for her,
and John said she was in the bedroom with a roach. In the twenty
seconds she was in the closet she managed to find a roach and grab
it... then she ran around the house with it in her mouth growling her
head off and saying 'this is MINE! Don't you DARE try to take it away
from me!'

I thought it must be a little roach and she would eat it, but no, it
was far more than a mouthful... she took it out to the livingroom and
I heard a ton of growling, and when I got curious enough to look down
the corridor and see what she was up to she was playing with it and it
was HUGE! What's more - IT WASN'T DEAD! Ick! Ick! Ick! Ick! Ick!

One small mercy - at least it was saturday morning and John was home
so I could yell for him to come and deal with it! And he looked in the
cupboard in case it brought friends, but there wasn't anything
there... its crawled through from next door because the workmen have
been in there this week hammering and banging and making a racket and
it was disturbed (nobody's lived in that apartment since we moved in
two years ago!)

Tessie got a bath for her pains just to make sure she didn't have any
roach poison on her... she is NOT AMUSED, but she's clean :)

Next we're going to have to call the pest control people who used to
come and spray all the apartments and ask them to come back - they
used to come around once a month while everyone was renting but now
it's up to the individual owners so we haven't been sprayed in 12
months.

I can't STAND bugs :(