Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Look What the Cat Dragged In...

Apparently Pansey is a mighty huntress. I am not sure she is really in it for the kill, but she definitely loves to bring us her prizes. ALIVE! So far in the past year she has carried in her mouth, through her cat door:

One live frog...

Two live voles. On two separate occasions. Below is not a picture of the actual voles that were in our house. Pansey's voles were not being held lovingly by a flowering shrub. Pansey's voles were being trapped under a bowl while Nana sat with her feet up on the couch and a worried expression on her face.
And most recently a baby bunny...
This morning at 5:11am I was shaken awake by Jason. "Stacey. Stacey. I need your help (usually these words are followed by the words cleaning up dog poop, puke, or pee) catching a baby bunny that Pansey brought in the house." Wait...WHAT? Apparently as Jason stumbled down the stairs moments earlier he saw Pansey in the playroom lounging by a baby bunny. He thought it was going to be a recovery mission, but he startled the bunny and it took off with Pansey in hot pursuit. When I came down she had the poor little thing cornered in the doll house. I snapped (sorry Jason) for Jason to lock Pansey away as I tried to catch the frightened little creature. That thing was fast. We made three rounds (each time it rounded the corner it would leave a smear of poopy stuff on the baseboards. I never thought I would be cleaning rabbit poop off my walls at 5am) before Jason was able to grab it in a towel. After we caught it Jason wondered if I wanted to keep it for a day to make sure it was OK, but I was worried it would get too accustomed to humans and if it was hurt what would I do? Take it to the vet? Keep it? I am sure the dogs (and Pansey) would love a bunny snack. So we did the hard (and probably right) thing and released it into the wild. But not before I named him Captain Huggy Pants.

1 comment:

Mommy Long Legs said...

This had me full on, BAGLOLing (That's my new word for busting a gut, laughing out loud) I can just see the panic of both Jason and the bunny. I think Panz might just be more like Snow White...and not the great white huntress.