I don\u2019t have a cat-killed-rat story for this week, and I am\nthankful for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I did have one last week, but I am thankful for that one\ntoo. I had to clean up the innards of a dismantled rat. But the innards and\nback half of the rat were on my porch. I don\u2019t know where the front half was,\nbut I was thankful that none of it was in my house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the week before, I had quite the cat-killed-rat\nordeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I loaded clothes into the washing machine before the\ncrack of dawn, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. No biggie, I\nthought, I just turned on the light, I\u2019m out on the porch, I have sleep in my\neyes, nothing is really there. Well, within ten seconds I knew that wasn\u2019t the\ncase. Cali, the cat I am watching for the year, had followed me out and had a\ngood-sized rat captured. Yay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BUT, the screen door still hadn\u2019t closed. Cali rushed in the\nhouse with said rat. I finished loading the clothes and then very hesitantly\nwent to find her. That wasn\u2019t so hard because I just had to follow the blood\ndrops. She\u2019d taken into the bathroom and was protecting it. So, I stepped in\nwith a plastic bag and shut the door. I wanted to get the rat, and I didn\u2019t\nwant her to leave with it before that. (I was so, so, so afraid at this point\nthat she was going to take it under my bed.) But there was no getting that rat\nfrom her. She just wanted to play with it. She flung it around\u2026it\u2019s body and\ntail just limply flying through the air. I chose to leave and let her get her\nfill of play because the tail got way too close to me. I tried to do normal\nmorning stuff, but really I was just thinking about that rat and cat in my\nbathroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I had done all I could and really just need to take a\nshower, I let Cali out and made sure she promptly left the house completely. If\nshe had eaten it, I didn\u2019t want any of it coming back up in my house. I walked\nin the bathroom, which had bits of fur and blood all about. I couldn\u2019t find the\nrat and decided maybe she had eaten it. Well, I thought that until I saw cat\nfootprints all the toilet seat. Yep, the rat was in the toilet. And thus, the\nwhole story ended with me fishing a urine-soaked rat out of a toilet and\nbleaching just about everything in the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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