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Lost Chance
Sunday morning I lost the chance to sleep in for the first time in
years. Normally I get up at 5:40 and the cats especially Smudge tries to make it a little earlier but not too much so. Don't know why she is in such a rush as I won't be going into the kitchen to get Peepers' and Smudges' breakfest until 6:30 or a little later. When the alarm woke me, I waited for them to mob me as they will do that when they don't start just before the alarm goes off. (Does anybody have any clue as to how they can be correct to within two minutes most days?) Well they didn't come storming in. It was a nice morning so I went into the living room to open the balcony door. As I passed through the living room I noted Peepers and Smudge seemed to be sitting face to face separated by less than a foot amd she's growling at him. I opened the door and went back to check it out and nothing's changed, it wasn't an hallucination. When I got close enough I noticed that one of my shoes was between them and a very dead mouse on the floor next to them. I have no idea who the successful hunter or huntress (ha, I've mentioned her lack of mousing skills in the past but it could have happened this once). I went back into the bedroom praying that they didn't bring it to their favorite stage (my bed). I sat down at the computer to do my jigsaw puzzle on the internet and to check my email. After a while, I hear some very loud growling working its way around a blockage in a cats mouth. I knew what was coming. Quickly Smudge appears at the door to the bedroom growling like a cat possessed keeping Peepers at bay (about 4 to 5 feet off). She enters the bedroom and sits in the bedroom door a couple of feet into the room and Peepers isn't allowed any closer that the other side of the hall outside the door. She throws it about for a bit growling in a way that is either demented or pleased with herself or both. About this time it is getting on towards 6:30 so I figure I will prepare breakfast. Smudge is a little slow to follow me out as the mouse is a great toy but in the end is not food (or at least not hers). She ends up supervising the breakfast preparations but Peepers is nowhere to be seen. I knew what had happened, toys are always way more interesting than food to him and real mice are even better than regular toys. I put the food on the floor and Smudge starts doing her starving wolf imitation. I go the bedroom and there is Peepers sitting facing the dead mouse that he has so lovingly taken onto the great stage, otherwise known as my bed. He is not touching it just sitting in front of it being happy and proud of it. If he were a human his chest would have been thrown way out. I go out the bathroom and get some toilet paper, go back into the bedroom and pick up the mouse before Peepers can save this toy, and flush it away. Boy did I get some nasty looks from Peepers. I picked the disappointed guy up and carried him out to breakfast and he did eat a little but it took him the better part of an hour before he would let me pet him again. For Peepers a half hour approaches forever the better part of an hour is unheard of till now. A little playing got him feeling so frisky later that it was hard to avoid stepping on him for most of the rest of the morning. He finally went for some serious sleep around 11:00 and later in the day life seemed to return fully to normal. Now is there any point in getting mice and releasing them on a timer just before my normal waking time to see if I can get another chance to sleep in and this time I won't blow it. Trouble is, do I really want to be there sleeping when the mouse is brought onto the stage? Larry Osborne |
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No doubt at all who's running things here. This am all 3 of the Evil 3 were
bellowing in my sleeping face till their hoomin slave staggered up, lurched toward food bowls, sighted food kibbles in food bowl, began fussing at still bellowing, circling felines, then noticed their water bowls were empty! Contrite, apologetic slave fills water bowls w/cool filtered fridge water and lurches back to bed, soon to be cuddled by purring meatloafs. "Larry Osborne" wrote in message ... : Sunday morning I lost the chance to sleep in for the first time in : years. Normally I get up at 5:40 and the cats especially Smudge tries to : make it a little earlier but not too much so. Don't know why she is in such : a rush as I won't be going into the kitchen to get Peepers' and Smudges' : breakfest until 6:30 or a little later. : : When the alarm woke me, I waited for them to mob me as they will do that : when they don't start just before the alarm goes off. (Does anybody have any : clue as to how they can be correct to within two minutes most days?) Well : they didn't come storming in. It was a nice morning so I went into the : living room to open the balcony door. As I passed through the living room I : noted Peepers and Smudge seemed to be sitting face to face separated by less : than a foot amd she's growling at him. I opened the door and went back to : check it out and nothing's changed, it wasn't an hallucination. When I got : close enough I noticed that one of my shoes was between them and a very dead : mouse on the floor next to them. I have no idea who the successful hunter : or huntress (ha, I've mentioned her lack of mousing skills in the past but : it could have happened this once). : : I went back into the bedroom praying that they didn't bring it to their : favorite stage (my bed). I sat down at the computer to do my jigsaw puzzle : on the internet and to check my email. After a while, I hear some very loud : growling working its way around a blockage in a cats mouth. I knew what was : coming. Quickly Smudge appears at the door to the bedroom growling like a : cat possessed keeping Peepers at bay (about 4 to 5 feet off). She enters : the bedroom and sits in the bedroom door a couple of feet into the room and : Peepers isn't allowed any closer that the other side of the hall outside the : door. She throws it about for a bit growling in a way that is either : demented or pleased with herself or both. : : About this time it is getting on towards 6:30 so I figure I will prepare : breakfast. Smudge is a little slow to follow me out as the mouse is a great : toy but in the end is not food (or at least not hers). She ends up : supervising the breakfast preparations but Peepers is nowhere to be seen. I : knew what had happened, toys are always way more interesting than food to : him and real mice are even better than regular toys. : : I put the food on the floor and Smudge starts doing her starving wolf : imitation. I go the bedroom and there is Peepers sitting facing the dead : mouse that he has so lovingly taken onto the great stage, otherwise known as : my bed. He is not touching it just sitting in front of it being happy and : proud of it. If he were a human his chest would have been thrown way out. : I go out the bathroom and get some toilet paper, go back into the bedroom : and pick up the mouse before Peepers can save this toy, and flush it away. : Boy did I get some nasty looks from Peepers. : : I picked the disappointed guy up and carried him out to breakfast and he : did eat a little but it took him the better part of an hour before he would : let me pet him again. For Peepers a half hour approaches forever the better : part of an hour is unheard of till now. A little playing got him feeling so : frisky later that it was hard to avoid stepping on him for most of the rest : of the morning. He finally went for some serious sleep around 11:00 and : later in the day life seemed to return fully to normal. : : Now is there any point in getting mice and releasing them on a timer : just before my normal waking time to see if I can get another chance to : sleep in and this time I won't blow it. Trouble is, do I really want to be : there sleeping when the mouse is brought onto the stage? : : Larry Osborne : : |
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No doubt at all who's running things here. This am all 3 of the Evil 3 were
bellowing in my sleeping face till their hoomin slave staggered up, lurched toward food bowls, sighted food kibbles in food bowl, began fussing at still bellowing, circling felines, then noticed their water bowls were empty! Contrite, apologetic slave fills water bowls w/cool filtered fridge water and lurches back to bed, soon to be cuddled by purring meatloafs. "Larry Osborne" wrote in message ... : Sunday morning I lost the chance to sleep in for the first time in : years. Normally I get up at 5:40 and the cats especially Smudge tries to : make it a little earlier but not too much so. Don't know why she is in such : a rush as I won't be going into the kitchen to get Peepers' and Smudges' : breakfest until 6:30 or a little later. : : When the alarm woke me, I waited for them to mob me as they will do that : when they don't start just before the alarm goes off. (Does anybody have any : clue as to how they can be correct to within two minutes most days?) Well : they didn't come storming in. It was a nice morning so I went into the : living room to open the balcony door. As I passed through the living room I : noted Peepers and Smudge seemed to be sitting face to face separated by less : than a foot amd she's growling at him. I opened the door and went back to : check it out and nothing's changed, it wasn't an hallucination. When I got : close enough I noticed that one of my shoes was between them and a very dead : mouse on the floor next to them. I have no idea who the successful hunter : or huntress (ha, I've mentioned her lack of mousing skills in the past but : it could have happened this once). : : I went back into the bedroom praying that they didn't bring it to their : favorite stage (my bed). I sat down at the computer to do my jigsaw puzzle : on the internet and to check my email. After a while, I hear some very loud : growling working its way around a blockage in a cats mouth. I knew what was : coming. Quickly Smudge appears at the door to the bedroom growling like a : cat possessed keeping Peepers at bay (about 4 to 5 feet off). She enters : the bedroom and sits in the bedroom door a couple of feet into the room and : Peepers isn't allowed any closer that the other side of the hall outside the : door. She throws it about for a bit growling in a way that is either : demented or pleased with herself or both. : : About this time it is getting on towards 6:30 so I figure I will prepare : breakfast. Smudge is a little slow to follow me out as the mouse is a great : toy but in the end is not food (or at least not hers). She ends up : supervising the breakfast preparations but Peepers is nowhere to be seen. I : knew what had happened, toys are always way more interesting than food to : him and real mice are even better than regular toys. : : I put the food on the floor and Smudge starts doing her starving wolf : imitation. I go the bedroom and there is Peepers sitting facing the dead : mouse that he has so lovingly taken onto the great stage, otherwise known as : my bed. He is not touching it just sitting in front of it being happy and : proud of it. If he were a human his chest would have been thrown way out. : I go out the bathroom and get some toilet paper, go back into the bedroom : and pick up the mouse before Peepers can save this toy, and flush it away. : Boy did I get some nasty looks from Peepers. : : I picked the disappointed guy up and carried him out to breakfast and he : did eat a little but it took him the better part of an hour before he would : let me pet him again. For Peepers a half hour approaches forever the better : part of an hour is unheard of till now. A little playing got him feeling so : frisky later that it was hard to avoid stepping on him for most of the rest : of the morning. He finally went for some serious sleep around 11:00 and : later in the day life seemed to return fully to normal. : : Now is there any point in getting mice and releasing them on a timer : just before my normal waking time to see if I can get another chance to : sleep in and this time I won't blow it. Trouble is, do I really want to be : there sleeping when the mouse is brought onto the stage? : : Larry Osborne : : |
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"Larry Osborne" wrote snip mousie antics Now is there any point in getting mice and releasing them on a timer just before my normal waking time to see if I can get another chance to sleep in and this time I won't blow it. Trouble is, do I really want to be there sleeping when the mouse is brought onto the stage? But Larry, you have not lived until you wake up with a vole (or a mouse in this case) dangling in your face. Frank was so disappointed that Meowmie was not happy with him bringing breakfast in bed. ;o) -- Marina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki |
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"Larry Osborne" wrote snip mousie antics Now is there any point in getting mice and releasing them on a timer just before my normal waking time to see if I can get another chance to sleep in and this time I won't blow it. Trouble is, do I really want to be there sleeping when the mouse is brought onto the stage? But Larry, you have not lived until you wake up with a vole (or a mouse in this case) dangling in your face. Frank was so disappointed that Meowmie was not happy with him bringing breakfast in bed. ;o) -- Marina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki |
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"Marina" wrote in message ... "Larry Osborne" wrote snip mousie antics Now is there any point in getting mice and releasing them on a timer just before my normal waking time to see if I can get another chance to sleep in and this time I won't blow it. Trouble is, do I really want to be there sleeping when the mouse is brought onto the stage? But Larry, you have not lived until you wake up with a vole (or a mouse in this case) dangling in your face. Frank was so disappointed that Meowmie was not happy with him bringing breakfast in bed. ;o) -- Marina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki If having a mouse dangled in my face upon awakening is living, can we find an alternative other than death? I really don't relish the idea waking to either holding a mouse alive or dead over me especially since I am less than fully alert at that time. Larry Osborne |
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"Marina" wrote in message ... "Larry Osborne" wrote snip mousie antics Now is there any point in getting mice and releasing them on a timer just before my normal waking time to see if I can get another chance to sleep in and this time I won't blow it. Trouble is, do I really want to be there sleeping when the mouse is brought onto the stage? But Larry, you have not lived until you wake up with a vole (or a mouse in this case) dangling in your face. Frank was so disappointed that Meowmie was not happy with him bringing breakfast in bed. ;o) -- Marina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki If having a mouse dangled in my face upon awakening is living, can we find an alternative other than death? I really don't relish the idea waking to either holding a mouse alive or dead over me especially since I am less than fully alert at that time. Larry Osborne |
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But Larry, you have not lived until you wake up with a vole (or a mouse in
this case) dangling in your face. Frank was so disappointed that Meowmie was not happy with him bringing breakfast in bed. ;o) Even "better" is waking up to the sight of a disembowelled rodent being presented as breakfast... or... half-a-rodent being presented as breakfast.... I speak from experience. Cheers, helen s (off to visit the great white telephone in the bathroom at the memory...) --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune **$om $ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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But Larry, you have not lived until you wake up with a vole (or a mouse in
this case) dangling in your face. Frank was so disappointed that Meowmie was not happy with him bringing breakfast in bed. ;o) Even "better" is waking up to the sight of a disembowelled rodent being presented as breakfast... or... half-a-rodent being presented as breakfast.... I speak from experience. Cheers, helen s (off to visit the great white telephone in the bathroom at the memory...) --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune **$om $ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" wrote Even "better" is waking up to the sight of a disembowelled rodent being presented as breakfast... or... half-a-rodent being presented as breakfast.... I speak from experience. I have also woken up by stretching my feet in my sleep, touching something moist with my toe, and jumping up wide awake to investigate, and finding a half-eaten vole at the foot of my bed. Bleeeccchhh! -- Marina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki |
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