/: Don't be a mouse in this house

[trenchcloak]

I begin to rethink the prowess of Thwing, our feline-looking predator. She was making repeated sounds under a desk, and, when I went to investigate, I discovered she had trapped some mouse under there. Good cat-thing.

About three hours later, I heard more repetitive noises, and again found Thwing cornering some mouse. Three hours after that,

Comments

[kadiera]

As some of our local friends learned earlier this year:

When a cat is chasing a mouse, make sure the mouse can't decide to hide inside the laser printer....

....the end results are bad - the smell of fried mouse is almost impossible to get out of the printer, and the printer may or may not still work afterwards :-)

[melstav]

not sure which'd be worse...

mouse fried on printer powersupply, or cat using printer as litterbox..

[gwacie]

It's possible that Thwingy was purposefully not catching the mouse; I've seen Eenie catch a mouse, walk across the room with it in her mouth, set it down and back up a few paces to give it a chance to run again so she could chase it again.

Well fed house cats like hunting more than eating mouse.