General Chat

Seeing as we are doing poetry, (or songs)
Diggory Diggory Delvet
The gentleman in black velvet.
He digs and he delves,
you can see for youselves,
the hills left by Diggory Delvet.

My late black cat in Normandy liked to catch moles. She used to sit stock still sensing their movement and then when it surfaced ... pow!

Once she had run out of velvet prezzies for the morning ( carefully placed in our slippers ) she moved on to dealing with the neighbour's moles. Which of course she brought back to base.

The village became a mole free zone.

.......well, at least it's one less christening :-D

A mouse lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam
A windmill with a mouse in and he wasn't grousin'
He sang every morning "How lucky I am
Living in a windmill in old Amsterdam".

(Chorus)
I saw a mouse -- where? There on the stair
Where on the stair? Right there
A little mouse with clogs on -- well, I declare
Going clip-clippety-clop on the stair - oh yeah

This mouse, he got lonesome, he took him a wife
A windmill with mice in, it's hardly surprisin'
She sang every morning "How lucky I am
Living in a windmill in old Amsterdam"

(Chorus)

First they had triplets and then they had quins
A windmill with quins in, triplets and twins in
They sang every morning "How lucky we are
Living in a windmill in Amsterdam -- ya"

(Chorus)

The daughters got married and so did the sons
The windmill had christenings when no one was listening
They all sang in chorus "How lucky we am
Living in a windmill in old Amsterdam"

(Chorus)

A mouse lived in a windmill, so snug and so nice
There's nobody there now but a whole load of mice.

:-D Joy

It was the most beautiful baby mouse - Betty only brings in 'sweet' things - a Cabbage white butterfly the other day, the odd dragonfly when we had a pond.
BUT she was outside all of 3 minutes before she brought it in, freshly killed, so I presume there's a nest VERY close.
I went to bed when she went outside again, just in case she brought another one in. Betty rarely goes upstairs, so I crossed my fingers, if she caught another one, she wouldn't bring it up to me. :-0

Another cat, Mister, 'does' the rats - fortunately he eats them in the kitchen.

one of mine deposited me a dead rat on the bedroom floor the other week
she brought it in from over the backs

I wasn't very happy
they say they are bringing us a prezzie
because they think we are rubbish hunters

I am thinking of taking my three cats to ASDA
and show them how we really hunt for food ;-) ;-)

How do I persuade Betty cat that the dead mouse she's playing with on the carpet isn't one of her 'toy' mice, and it's an outside 'toy'? I've persuaded her out twice - but I have a cat flap ..........



Edit: S'okay, she shredded it in the kitchen, I petted her, wrapped the 'present' in kitchen towel and put it in the bin. She's gone out again.....