Why I didn't sleep all that well last night . . .

[xiphias]

So I'm sleeping in the bedroom, and Lis is sleeping on the daybed so that I can go ahead and snore without bothering her.

Around 11:30, Lis wakes me up and calls me into the front room, telling me that Nora is growling and Nick is staring at her. And there's something in Nora's mouth. She first thought it was one of our mousie toys, but then noticed that it had legs.

Yup, Nora had caught a mouse.

And she was dropping it, and letting it run off, and catching it again. As cats do.

It was getting slower and slower, and then she dropped it and it was just lying on its side, and Lis said, "I think it's finally dead," and Nora looked up at her, and the mouse ran off into the boxes in the side of the room.

Great. So we might have a dead mouse hidden in our front room.

Or not. Both cats spent the next several hours searching that place, and Lis said that, around 3:30, she heard Nora growling again, so maybe they got it?

Well, we'll keep an eye out, and hope to see it before we smell it.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Yuck. I hope they got it, and either ate it or left the remains somewhere visible.

We've been worried about that too. There's an odd occasional stink in our entry way, which has the laundry/storage room opening off it. So far the possibilities we've come up with are 1) something to do with venting hot air from our portable A/C unit there (which would make sense of why we only smell it every few days, since we only have to use the A/C when it's especially hot); 2) something to do with the drain in the floor of the laundry/storage room or 3) dead critter among the many boxes stacked there. We're really really hoping it isn't #3. It's a big stack! (It smells more like mildew or sewage to me, anyhow.)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

They won't have eaten it: while cats are perfectly capable of figuring out how to hunt on their own, they need to be taught to eat what they kill. Since they didn't come from litters where their mama fed them mice, they won't eat mice.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I was kind of wondering how that worked. (My cats never killed anything larger than a grasshopper.) I also wasn't sure, if they did, what remains might, um, remain.

I suppose this is a good thing about kitty pride: better that they proudly show you their conquests than that they hide them.

[(Anonymous)]

Just remember Clyde in Lis' room in the house in Dubuque.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Was that the one with the autumn-leaves colored carpet that was EXACTLY the color of cat puke?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Meep. Good luck finding it before horrors befall.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

yuck - just yuck - not a good way to wake up