A Millie and the Mouse Story

It's been kinda quiet here at chez Millie during the day. Most of October was grey and rainy. Today it's sunny, so I've decided to nap in my kitty condo in the studio.

 Mom wanted me pose, but seriously?

I have a great story to tell you, but there aren't any pictures. Remember I said Mom hired some "pest" guys to keep the mice out of the house? Well it kinda works, but some still manage to get inside under the kitchen sink. Mom set up a trap and we have caught a couple, but the other night Mom was watching TV and I was napping nearby when we heard the trap go off.

Now I am no dummy. (I mean, I'm a CAT!) I went running to the cabinet, and got the door open. There was lots of rattling, and it turned out the mouse had got a foot caught. I pulled it out, trap and all and ran into the other room. Mom followed. I put the mouse down, and he got away. I merely went over and picked him up again. Mom got a little bit worked up. I tried to tell her everything was OK, but the mouse got loose and ran behind the desk.

Mom got really pissed and she yelled at me! Can you imagine? She told me it was bad enough she could hear some mice under the kitchen sink, but now she had one running loose in the house and she was ANGRY! She went on and on and I just let it go in one ear and out the other because, Hell-Oh! I'm a CAT!

She went to bed, but not before reminding me to Do Your Job! (Dunno where she got THAT from.)

Well.

The next morning she got up and got my food dish and refilled it, and as she walked toward the Office where my food tray lives, she looked over and saw the little mouse I had deaded overnight.

I have to give it to her. She looked right at me and apologized!

Yup!

She said she was sorry for yelling at me and she would never doubt me again.

I just looked at her.

However, I have been a good share of treats every day.

Heh.

I Did it Again!

Now that the weather is getting colder, the outside mouses want to get inside.  Of course, I am on the alert, watching all the places where they could get in.

One got in last night, and we had a little chase, then I caught it and deaded it.

Mom heard me making the special sound I make when I catch mice, and got up to see the mouse run around a little bit before I made sure it was dead.

The picture of the mouse is below, if you need proof. Mom slipped it in a cardboard tube she had in the recycling bin and then threw it outside.

I am proud of myself, and of course Mom is VERY HAPPY.

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Magnificent Millie Monday

So it was really warm here.

So Mom opened the door to the front porch so I could sit out there for a little bit. Nothing surprising there.

When it got cold, Mom closed the door and I came in the house.

But so did a little visitor.

Mom woke up in the middle of the night because she heard me running around and making funny noises. So she got up and turned on the light. What she saw surprised her. I had found the little visitor and deaded it.

Mom told me she was proud of me, but I'm not so sure she was. She grabbed an empty box and a long piece of cardboard and put the deaded little visitor in the box and then opened the door and threw it outside. She kept saying "Eew. Eew. Eew."

She said she wasn't sure I had it in me, since I have been an indoor kitty for most of my life.

Yeah right.

Like the great Jackson Galaxy says, "Cats are predators, and they're damn good at it."