The Great Black-and-White Bug Hunter
Mac found a worm last night.
It was raining pretty heavily yesterday evening, and so this work must have come out from underground and somehow made its way into our kitchen. So when I came through to make myself dinner, I found Mac on the floor, watching this worm intently as it squirmed along the floor. Occasionally he'd lean in to sniff tenatively at it, but back up if it started to curl towards him. He obviously had no idea what to make of it.
Mac is fascinated by "stuff that moves". He tries to catch small spiders, not because he's hunting them, but because they move fast and he doesn't know what they are, so he wants a closer look. Larger spiders (ie. the big bastard of a spider that lives in various parts of our house whose mandibles are clearly visible) worry him somewhat though, and he prefers to just watch them from a distance.
He once caught a bee by accident. We found him sitting with it between hit paws, batting at it gently to try to make it move. If it had tried to sting him it didn't succeed, likely because of his thick fur, because he suffered absolutely no ill effects.
Jelli, of course, is the complete opposite. Insects? Meh. I'm sleeping/cleaning/eating. Go bother someone else about them.
It was raining pretty heavily yesterday evening, and so this work must have come out from underground and somehow made its way into our kitchen. So when I came through to make myself dinner, I found Mac on the floor, watching this worm intently as it squirmed along the floor. Occasionally he'd lean in to sniff tenatively at it, but back up if it started to curl towards him. He obviously had no idea what to make of it.
Mac is fascinated by "stuff that moves". He tries to catch small spiders, not because he's hunting them, but because they move fast and he doesn't know what they are, so he wants a closer look. Larger spiders (ie. the big bastard of a spider that lives in various parts of our house whose mandibles are clearly visible) worry him somewhat though, and he prefers to just watch them from a distance.
He once caught a bee by accident. We found him sitting with it between hit paws, batting at it gently to try to make it move. If it had tried to sting him it didn't succeed, likely because of his thick fur, because he suffered absolutely no ill effects.
Jelli, of course, is the complete opposite. Insects? Meh. I'm sleeping/cleaning/eating. Go bother someone else about them.