Mouse in the House! (not anymore)

[wolphstrykes]

So last night my elder cat Miken found a mouse in the apartment.

She was standing on my lap, purring... purring... GONE! My hand was petting AIR! I'd just started turning my head when I heard the collision with the kitchen door. I finished turning in time to see her bouncing back with a mouse in her jaws.

As soon as she dropped it, the mouse

Comments

[lecoto]

That's a nasty windstorm.

I remember one afternoon when the wind hand kicked up to 30 mph. We had gone grocery shopping, and there was an irrigation canal that ran in front of the store, inhabited by swallows. They would fly, as a flock, to one end of the canal, fighting the wind...and then roll on wingtip and turn to the side to catch the wind, get thrown to the other end of the canal in a matter of seconds...and then fight their way back to the other end.

I swear they were playing.

[wolphstrykes]

Heh, you would zero in on the wind part.

Yeh, I bet they were playing too. I've seen similar behavior, like otters in water.

[kabbalist_mzdm]

Reading your report of the Great Mouse Invective makes that evening sound suspiciously like a real-life Tom and Jerry cartoon. Did you ever wish you could have had a camera set up just to watch Miken and the mouse bouncing around each other?

Fifty to sixty mile-per-hour winds?! Wow. I bet hatpins and other assorted fasteners became very popular while that was going on. While I've never seen the sideways bird phenomenon, I do remember one year when our local Harvest Fest reported very high winds. Almost everything had to be weighted down, and I saw one small, thin woman out "walking" her large dog. It seemed more like she was using him as an anchor without him noticing.