On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:55:29 -0500, jmcquown wrote:

Shortly after Persia (RB) decided to live with me I found her standing
outside the entrance to the kitchen off the hallway. She meowed at me
but absolutely would *not* go into the kitchen. I flipped on the light.
There was a dead mouse in the middle of the kitchen floor. It hadn't
been killed by her; there wasn't a mark on it. (For all I knew it
keeled over from a heart attack when it saw Persia.) She refused to go
into the kitchen until I had disposed of the mouse and mopped the floor!
Guess she was afraid of mice.

She was great at catching the nasty palmetto bugs that sometimes got
inside, though. I'm not afraid of mice but palmetto bugs absolutely
creep me out.

Well, I suppose a cat who is afraid of mice has to redeem her feline reputation
somehow, doesn't she? :-)

We don't have palmetto bugs this far north, but we do have cockroaches, which
are similar, and I've been known to evacuate a residence and fumigate the whole
place with aerosol insecticide bombs after seeing just one of them around.

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY