Today is mum's 28th Birthday. Today is also one of the warmest days we've had in awhile. Today is the day that Tinkerbell decided to resume her... collection activities. We now have a rat in the bathroom (alive) and it is currently hiding behind the washing machine (we have the washer/dryer in there). I really have to pee and I don't want to go in ( Read more... )

Today was my last day of volunteering with the kitties (for those of you from the RDJ friending meme I volunteer with VOKRA). Or so I thought. I start school on Monday, so I had to give up morning shifts to help the kitties, but I got a call from one of the coordinators asking if I could to Thursday evenings, so I will still do one shift a week. I ( Read more... )

Someone (cat, raccoon or dog, most likely cat) has left us a dead rat on our front door mat. *cries*

Poor rat.

Tinkerbell just brought us a present. We're used to the birds, the mice, the shrews the... god knows what else. But just now she decided to bring us something new.

A rat.

A BIG BROWN RAT!!!! SHE JUST CARRIED IT IN THE WINDOW AND PLOPPED IT ON THE FLOOR AND IT WAS STILL ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mum thought it was a shrew or a mouse, but WHAT SHREW ( Read more... )

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There's something really noisy and really big in the wall. I'm scared. It was just thumping and scratching around and even though I banged on the wall it just kept doing it. It sounds way too big to be a mouse, not the way it was thumping around. Maybe even bigger than a rat? God, I hope it's not a rat. A squirrel maybe? A raccoon? Skunk? Emu ( Read more... )

So we may not have a mouse after all ( Read more... )