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*headdesk*
Jan. 13th, 2009 10:23 pmMy mom called earlier in the evening to ask me a very odd question:
"If we let Squeeky catch a mouse... it won't hurt him, right?"
"What?" Ask some very confused Kiffies.
My mom went on, "Well, he was chasing a mouse..."
Squeeky had evidently chased a mouse from the bedroom into the hallway and up the wall heater. All three cats are now waiting patiently for the mouse to make its escape. Which it may or may not be able to do, because my mom is equally as ornery as I am when it comes to pests, and the heater was promptly turned on as soon as the mouse entered.
So either the mouse escapes and Squeeky and Speckles can argue over who gets the delicious mouse guts, or the thing is dead and cooking into a fine, honey-glazed brown that some other mice/cockroaches will surely enjoy at a later date.
If it escapes and makes it to the kitchen, Mousie will likely claim it as "hers" and keep it as a pet, just like the last one.
"If we let Squeeky catch a mouse... it won't hurt him, right?"
"What?" Ask some very confused Kiffies.
My mom went on, "Well, he was chasing a mouse..."
Squeeky had evidently chased a mouse from the bedroom into the hallway and up the wall heater. All three cats are now waiting patiently for the mouse to make its escape. Which it may or may not be able to do, because my mom is equally as ornery as I am when it comes to pests, and the heater was promptly turned on as soon as the mouse entered.
So either the mouse escapes and Squeeky and Speckles can argue over who gets the delicious mouse guts, or the thing is dead and cooking into a fine, honey-glazed brown that some other mice/cockroaches will surely enjoy at a later date.
If it escapes and makes it to the kitchen, Mousie will likely claim it as "hers" and keep it as a pet, just like the last one.
Something Not So Good
Jul. 11th, 2007 06:19 pmThe owner just came again and cleared some things up.
It was the new neighbors who complained. They said our cats have been going on their lawn. This is absurd, of course, as there are tons of feral cats on our block. The local group is called "The Tuxedos", mainly because they all are. To say that our cats, specifically, are going on their lawn is insane. Only unhealthy or sick cats go out in the open, and we know ours are in fine health.
Once we explained this to them (though, really, if you own a property and don't actually know it well enough to understand the feral problem...), they gave us a sort of ultimatum:
Call the humane society and have the Tuxedos rounded up, or the neighbors will call them and have our cats taken away.
This is a rather shitty situation. I do not want the Tuxedos taken, as most are over a year old and will surely be put down as soon as they're recieved. But I most certainly do not want our own cats taken and put down. The Tuxedos have lived here as long as I can remember, never overpopulated, and not once have I ever seen one dead on the road. They're a rather unobtrusive feral community. Now it seems like we're responsible for their fate. :/
It was the new neighbors who complained. They said our cats have been going on their lawn. This is absurd, of course, as there are tons of feral cats on our block. The local group is called "The Tuxedos", mainly because they all are. To say that our cats, specifically, are going on their lawn is insane. Only unhealthy or sick cats go out in the open, and we know ours are in fine health.
Once we explained this to them (though, really, if you own a property and don't actually know it well enough to understand the feral problem...), they gave us a sort of ultimatum:
Call the humane society and have the Tuxedos rounded up, or the neighbors will call them and have our cats taken away.
This is a rather shitty situation. I do not want the Tuxedos taken, as most are over a year old and will surely be put down as soon as they're recieved. But I most certainly do not want our own cats taken and put down. The Tuxedos have lived here as long as I can remember, never overpopulated, and not once have I ever seen one dead on the road. They're a rather unobtrusive feral community. Now it seems like we're responsible for their fate. :/
The owners came by today.
They came to the door and bitched out my dad about our cats crapping on the lawn.
Let me say -- they do not, nor have they ever, crap on the lawn. Mousie buries hers blocks away. Squeeky uses an outside litterbox. Speckles uses an indoor litterbox.
The "poo" that was on the lawn? That's from a dog.
We do not own a dog.
RAR.
They came to the door and bitched out my dad about our cats crapping on the lawn.
Let me say -- they do not, nor have they ever, crap on the lawn. Mousie buries hers blocks away. Squeeky uses an outside litterbox. Speckles uses an indoor litterbox.
The "poo" that was on the lawn? That's from a dog.
We do not own a dog.
RAR.
