Winter has finally struck. It got very very cold
This is the back deck after the first day of snowfall.
So much snow it built up on the trellis!and the mice have decided to migrate indoors. Into my boiler room/pantry in the basement. Then, just for grins, they decide to scamper around inside the heating ducts on their way to the kitchen and take a sniff around.
Unfortunately for them, there are cats in the house.
Domino receives credit for the capture this year. I was reading with Kaboom on my lap and heard a great deal of scampering in the kitchen; not wanting to get up (and with a cat on my lap, I couldn't), I ignored it until I finished my book. Then I went off to find out what Domino was up to. Kaboom, however, had other plans and stole Domino's new toy.
That doesn't look...comfortable.I find it odd that the scaredy cat is the better mouser and the more aggressive one will defer to him until he saw an opportunity to steal his mouse back from Kaboom.
Domino (white cat) makes his plans for mouse retrieval. Kaboom (black cat) double dog dares him to take it.I also learned that it's apparently difficult to growl and hiss with a mouthful of mouse. I didn't know that until this episode.
In the end, I called for Eric to come and take the mouse (still alive) away from Domino who was in danger of losing it in the front entryway amongst all of our shoes. Did you know that water glasses and paper work just as well for mouse removal aids as they do for spider removal aids?
Yes, yes they do.
Eric tossed the mouse outside into the 2 foot plus drifts in our front yard and that was they end of that.
The question I keep coming back to in my mind is not: "Why do we have mice?". The question should be "Why don't we have MORE mice?" It's crumb central* around here with the Twin Food Flingers. We should have entire ARMIES of mice.
Where are they? I don't think the 17 I caught in the yard this summer made a serious dent in the local mouse population and the two we caught inside in traps, can't have been it. I guess I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Well, it could be worse. They could be [stage whisper] cockroaches.
[Shudder!]
* How often is "normal" for floor sweeping? Once a day? Once every other day? Once an hour? Cuz this floor could be swept hourly and still I'd be catching crumbs and that just ain't right.
4 comments:
showed the pic's around the dental office. they thought the pic's were hilarious.
kimik, aka alessa
Such good kittehs!
I love those pictures!
We have armies of mice. Every winter it's the same story. The cats catch a goodly amount, but like you said, I don't think they put a dent in the population that is holed up in our attic and basement. They skeeve me, but I agree - it could be worse!
Going back to the phone conversation about messy floors, I wonder if you could invite your friends with dogs over, mentioning the dogs are welcome and have them sweep and mop the floor with their tongues? You'd have to hide the kitties away, of course.
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