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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / October 2007Created a (meece) monster!
Well! I never thought our 3-legged Gracie would do very well catching ONE mouse..... The first couple were small...young...and she gifted them to me on my bed. Sweet. I lost count at 7! We'd sealed off all the holes and I bought new traps, but Gracie seems to have made it her exclusive goal to wreak havic on their colony this week, so we're letting her handle it. Did I mention she wears a bell? I did let her nails grow (ouchouchouch) to give her an edge. That WON'T be a permanent thing! I wasn't actually...um...aware that we had THAT many mice around here. Yes, am working on pictures but not done with the roll yet. PatM > Well! I never thought our 3-legged Gracie would do very well catching > ONE mouse..... The first couple were small...young...and she gifted [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > PatM Whoa. Well, you can sure be certain you are safe! (I don't think missing legs slow them down much). She must feel like a kid in a candy store. > Well! I never thought our 3-legged Gracie would do very well catching > ONE mouse..... The first couple were small...young...and she gifted [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > PatM Something similar happened with Stinky a couple of years ago. He just seemed to discover The Mouse Dispenser in the basement, and was coming up with at least a mouse a day, sometimes more. The mice were there, so he really honed his abilities and got really accomplished at catching them. It was like a Perfect Rodent Storm. It made my mom absolutely nuts. When we stuffed the holes and other openings, the party ended. > Something similar happened with Stinky a couple of years ago. He just > seemed to discover The Mouse Dispenser in the basement, and was coming up > with at least a mouse a day, sometimes more. The mice were there, so he > really honed his abilities and got really accomplished at catching them. It > was like a Perfect Rodent Storm. It made my mom absolutely nuts. When we > stuffed the holes and other openings, the party ended. Poor Stinky! You took away his fun. And it really sounds like he knows how to make himself useful, as well as ornamental. :) (A friend of mine drove an ice cream truck one summer, and heard a woman say to her child, while asking the kid to go home and get some change to buy the ice cream, "Make yourself useful as well as ornamental." This became an oft-repeated phrase among my circle for a long time afterward.) Joyce oops I thought that was in the child rearing book, along with "I brought you into this world, I can, if neessary, take you out." > > Something similar happened with Stinky a couple of years ago. He just > > seemed to discover The Mouse Dispenser in the basement, and was coming [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Joyce > Well! I never thought our 3-legged Gracie would do very well catching > ONE mouse..... The first couple were small...young...and she gifted [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > permanent thing! I wasn't actually...um...aware that we had THAT many > mice around here. A bell does no good at all! When I was growing up, I had a cat who did his best to decimate the local robin population, single pawed. I DID put a bell on him - on a ribbon, which had more slack than a collar. I watched him stalk a robin one day - he moved so smoothly the bell didn't once make a sound - until he pounced, of course, but by then it was too late! |
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