The “I have caught a mouse” call is a smug growl, equal parts warning and pride. MRRRER MOW.
Had someone been listening they would have heard:
“Goldie what is it — Oooh! You killed a mouse! You killed it and brought it upstairs, you smart boy. Pose for the picture, that’s good. Here, let me pick it up AAAAH IT’S NOT DEAD. “
And then I got a paper towel, Goldie showed me where the mouse was, I tried to catch it and it ran off, I got a bath towel, Goldie showed me where the mouse was, I tried to throw the towel over it and it ran off, I got the broom, Goldie showed me where the mouse was, I tried to beat it to death and it ran off, finally Goldie showed me where the mouse was again and I managed to sweep it out the back door.
Goldie said, “You haz no skills.”
I know they say that cats are trying to teach you to hunt when they bring you mice. I’d prefer a dead mouse next time.
6 responses to “Cat Calls Part 2: Mouse Call”
See, this is why Goldie is trying to hard to teach you…
(yes, no still-alive or almost-alive or hasn’t-been-alive-for-entirely-too-long mice, thanks. Also no mice in bad places (one’s shoe; bed; etc.). But yay for having a mouse-hunter!… even if that mouse-hunter is trying to teach you things you do not especially want to learn.)
KC – I am surprised mice are still entering our house from the garage, frankly. You’d think they’d figure it out.
Outside is hazardous (it also has cats and in addition has hawks, etc.), and also probably inhospitably hot at this point. But yes, usually mice are less enthusiastic about entering places where there are cats!
KC – but yet they do. I think they might be falling out of the insulation that separates the garage and the basement below.
Inadequately acrobatic mice sound plausible, yes. Have you let Goldie prowl in the garage to see if that reduces mice in garage to begin with?
KC – I have to say I’m not opening Pandora’s Garage.