Thursday, 23 April 2009

•  Here’s one you haven’t heard in a while!

   

  There’s nothing quite as lovely as being awakened at 2am from a sound sleep to your cat puking all over your bed! She usually sleeps at my feet all night. This morning she was puking on them! She threw up in two spots and was going for a third when I was finally able to shove her off the bed to the floor, where she proceeded to stop and gag all the way out the door. After changing the bed and cleaning up her trail of woe (because I am fully aware that I would go back to sleep and in my “good Lord, it’s morning state” four hours later, forget about the little surprises in the morning until I stepped on one!), I went back to bed and promptly fell asleep.

   

  Did I mention there was NOTHING quite as lovely? At 3am I hear a wrestling match going on in the kitchen and what sounds like the walls coming down! I jump out of bed muttering something about dead cats and as I round the corner in a crazed-sleep-deprived-fury I see pukey cat standing at the top of the stairs with a stinkin’ shrew dangling by its tail from her mouth!

   

  Just as I exclaim “good girl!” she let the shrew go and he took off toward the refrigerator. Pukey cat was too quick for the little shrew and she had him again in her clutches.

   

  Enter cat number two who decides to saunter in and see what all the excitement is about. This irritates pukey cat and she starts growling at sleepy cat to keep away from her prize. In her growliness she let the shrew go again only to chase it under the kitchen table where he sat frozen under a chair that pukey cat was too fat to get under. Pukey cat on one side, sleepy cat in the other. Watching and waiting. For 10 minutes!

  
  Finding that scene a bit hilarious, I ran to the bedroom to grab my phone to video the stand-off, but my movement set off the chase again! Down the stairs, back and forth on each step, you could read the shrew’s mind… “I’ll confuse her with my stealthy back and forth motion and when she zigs, I’ll zag and I will be free!”

   

  And that is exactly what it did! It ran around the corner into the laundry room and POOF he was gone! Disappeared!

   

  Now it is 4am. I am almost afraid to go back to sleep for all the excitement I’ll miss!

   

   

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