My cat 'n mouse story follows. Pardon if I've shared it before in this forum. Siblings Widget and Yossarian we about a year old. Yoyo's litter was about 5 weeks old. (I suspected the neighborhood orange tom, because one of the kittens was orange.)
I had a mouse inside the cabinets, and wasn't sure what to do until I remembered, "Hey, I gots cats!" Widget went in first, snagged the little mouse, took it into the corner, and started playing volley mouse. He tossed it in the air, batted it about, grabbed it with his mouth, tossed it in the air again, etc. Yoyo and the kittens gathered to watch. Yoyo got a shot at the mouse, clamped her mouth over it's head, and strangled it. Very simple, very efficient, very dead.
Yoyo dropped it, and let the kittens examine it. Widgers batted at the mouse a couple of times and was just heartbroken. "That was the coolest toy ever, and you broke it!"
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I had a mouse inside the cabinets, and wasn't sure what to do until I remembered, "Hey, I gots cats!" Widget went in first, snagged the little mouse, took it into the corner, and started playing volley mouse. He tossed it in the air, batted it about, grabbed it with his mouth, tossed it in the air again, etc. Yoyo and the kittens gathered to watch. Yoyo got a shot at the mouse, clamped her mouth over it's head, and strangled it. Very simple, very efficient, very dead.
Yoyo dropped it, and let the kittens examine it. Widgers batted at the mouse a couple of times and was just heartbroken. "That was the coolest toy ever, and you broke it!"
- mark 8-05-2004 4:01 am