Killer Bestiary Rides Again

[akirlu]

Tonight Shoobie was going completely bonkers at the pile of miscellanea in the back corner of my office closet. Scratching, digging, barking, snorking and chuckling to himself in that agitated way he has when he's really enjoying himself, and absolutely determinedly frantic to get at the kipple-blocked far back

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[dragonet2]

Lordy. And I was upset that Badb Catha used to leave the mice in my doorway. Dead as dead-o thank goodness, but she was the only cat at that time that had an interest. One was too old, and the other two were kittens.

I would be totally alarmed if we had rats getting in (just mice). Then again, now I have Ripley now, who has a high prey drive and is a young, enthusiastic cat. If we have any more mice, she'll likely take care of them. I hope we never have a rat.

[akirlu]

Well, we don't actually know how the rat got in, really, but with Tink around, and Shoob for that matter, I'm rather doubtful that it wandered in there on its own and died.

[akirlu]

Oh, Tinka sneaks in her kills all the time during the summer and fall when we tend to leave the windows open. Rats are an inevitable consequence of living as close as we do to a wildgrown blackberry patch of vast proportions, not to mention not having been scrupulous about picking up our windfall fruit. Rats aren't even her most alarming gift. That would be the partially decomposed adolescent possum I once found in a yarn bag. He had a chance to get unpleasantly ripe before I figured out where the heck the smell was coming from.

[athenais]

Wow, go Shoob! Also, äcklig (which I just happened to learn tonight)!

[akirlu]

Yeah, you wouldn't think it to look at him, but Shoobie has the dark heart and grim determination of a born ratter. I've seen him sit for literally hours waiting for a mouse to come back out of its bolt hole.

[johncoxon]

Gotta love Shoobie. He wouldn't send you wrong :D

[akirlu]

Indeed he wouldn't. When he tells you he's trapped a rodent, he knows what he's talking about.