Sharing a bed with three killers

Came home last night to find a very dead mouse under my computer
table.

Cats are truely amazing as they will sleep on your chest purring and
yet turn into small killing machines as needed.

So far in the last year or so two mouses and one rat found out that it
was not a wise thing to enter a home with three killers on guard.

Of course I was not all that happy, the time I woke up to find they
had gotten a bird into my home and then took it apart all over the
house.

Feathers and bird parts everywhere!

Yes, we often wonder at our petite predators--like what instinct
prompts Tyche to devour ladybugs.

DP lifted her up as a parent would a toddler daughter and told her to
"look at pretty ladybug..."

Out went a paw...WHAP...that swung to a mouth...CHOMP...and while DP
stared at the kitten in his arms, horrified, Tyche made a very pleased
GULP.

Way to go Vegetarian Father. She's not taking after you much, is she?

--Fil



Cats are truely amazing as they will sleep on your chest purring and
yet turn into small killing machines as needed.

Enfilade wrote:

Yes, we often wonder at our petite predators--like what instinct
prompts Tyche to devour ladybugs.

DP lifted her up as a parent would a toddler daughter and told her to
"look at pretty ladybug..."

Out went a paw...WHAP...that swung to a mouth...CHOMP...and while DP
stared at the kitten in his arms, horrified, Tyche made a very pleased
GULP.

He was *surprised* at this??

Joyce


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Enfilade wrote:

Way to go Vegetarian Father. She's not taking after you much, is she?

LOL! How shocking for a MomDad.


--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

On Jan 7, 9:19*pm, Marina wrote:
Enfilade wrote:

Way to go Vegetarian Father. *She's not taking after you much, is she?

LOL! How shocking for a MomDad.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Sometimes they just remind us they're little predators, and at heart,
they're not much different than the big cats. The main difference is
the size of the prey they go after. I remember scaring away a bird
the Late Isadora was stalking, and she turned and gave me the
DIRTIEST look!

Although, given the sad events at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas
Day, I'm awfully grateful my girls are the size they are and as tame
and sweet as they are. I wouldn't wish being mauled by a tiger on
anyone and would certainly be terrified if I came in contact with a
free and angry adult tiger, but I feel very sad about the death of
Tatiana, too. She got the worst of the deal all the way around, a wild
animal caged in a zoo, and then shot dead for acting in accordance
with her nature. Of course, if she'd lived wild, she might also have
been shot by poachers.
Melissa

Shiral wrote:

Although, given the sad events at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas
Day, I'm awfully grateful my girls are the size they are and as tame
and sweet as they are. I wouldn't wish being mauled by a tiger on
anyone and would certainly be terrified if I came in contact with a
free and angry adult tiger, but I feel very sad about the death of
Tatiana, too. She got the worst of the deal all the way around, a wild
animal caged in a zoo, and then shot dead for acting in accordance
with her nature. Of course, if she'd lived wild, she might also have
been shot by poachers.

That's the worst of it. Living in the zoo was probably the best thing
for her, but it certainly has its limitations.

Joyce
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He was *surprised* at this??


Sure. The kittens seemed to be learning all their other behaviours
from him--like typing, and touching with the paw (a gesture we call
"blessing" but, in fact, they are trying to pet us and one another as
we pet them)--the fact that they've also got "catch and eat" in their
behaviour list, well, HE didn't teach them that

--Fil