Gifts!
About every six weeks, I like to give the pets a treat. Normally that means a lamb shank or big beef marrow bone for the dogs, and either cooked pork or roast chicken for the cat. I had lunch with Smiley Steve on Friday, and there was about a third of a roast chook left. Bellamy quite often gets carcasses, but this had a LOT of meat on it, more than he's ever had before. I was Top Human.
Stumbling about the kitchen, still feeling blah from Saturday's migraine (which bled into Sunday), I got up to go pour my first cup of coffee of the day and my foot went down on something soft and squishy. The first thing my brain said was "padded envelope" because there are a dozen or so on the table and I'm looking right at them. The second thing my brain said was "oh shit, padded envelope on the floor with something inside my foot made go snap!" The third thing my brain said was "hmm, no - better look down."
Rat. Cold dead rat. Under the kitchen table. Right where I put my feet to get up. Urk!
Sigh, I love Bellamy, I really do, and I'm quite fine with cats exchanging gifts with me on the whole (Onslow once left me a dead rat laid out in front of the fish tank which was mysteriously lacking a fish), but I'd prefer them left WHERE I CAN SEE THEM! At least I found this one before it started to smell - there was one enormous one it took me the better part of three weeks to finally locate.
Stumbling about the kitchen, still feeling blah from Saturday's migraine (which bled into Sunday), I got up to go pour my first cup of coffee of the day and my foot went down on something soft and squishy. The first thing my brain said was "padded envelope" because there are a dozen or so on the table and I'm looking right at them. The second thing my brain said was "oh shit, padded envelope on the floor with something inside my foot made go snap!" The third thing my brain said was "hmm, no - better look down."
Rat. Cold dead rat. Under the kitchen table. Right where I put my feet to get up. Urk!
Sigh, I love Bellamy, I really do, and I'm quite fine with cats exchanging gifts with me on the whole (Onslow once left me a dead rat laid out in front of the fish tank which was mysteriously lacking a fish), but I'd prefer them left WHERE I CAN SEE THEM! At least I found this one before it started to smell - there was one enormous one it took me the better part of three weeks to finally locate.