Real life, around here anyways, truly is stranger then fiction.

I should write a book of short stories. I could call it "Animal Antics at the Funny Farm!"

I shared back a while ago about one of our cats and the lovely gift she brought me one night. I wanted to link back to that entry, but alas, I can not find it, so I'll add that story here:

Living in the country…

It’s not all romantic ya know?

Often in the evenings, I sit outside on our master bedroom balcony and look over our property, watch the horses over to the right, check out our almost finished cabin over on the left. I usually check to see if I can catch a glimmer of our hens red heat lamp through the cracks of the hen house, just to make sure it’s still on.

I have a lawn chair that I sit on out there. No matter what the weather, it’s always beautiful on the master bedroom balcony.

On clear nights you can gaze at the stars. On full moon nights, you can view the entire property in the moonlight.

Tonight, it was not a clear night and there was no moonlight.

As I sat out on the master bedroom balcony, one of our ‘barn cats’ saw me. I swear she can see/hear me come out from a mile away. As soon as I step out there she jumps up on the lower deck, then onto the lower deck railing, from there she jumps onto the eaves and makes her way to the master bedroom balcony.

She did her thing, and as usual, jumped straight up on my lap.

I sat there for a while, enjoying the misty dark view, petting her and talking to her.

Suddenly she picked something up off my lap and jumped down.

It was a dead mouse.

EWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…………

Some how, it kind of spoiled the mood and I high tailed it back into the house.

Stupid cat.

Anywho...

Fast forward to the other night. I open the door to go out onto the masterbedroom balcony, and as per usual, Serefina, my 10 year old dd's cat, who LOVES to bring me gifts, immediately sprang to life and headed my way from the lower deck. She jumped up onto the railing of the deck below and sure enough, I see something hanging from her mouth. Yet another gift. Isn't she sweet?

However, this time it was not a little mouse that could go unnoticed on my lap. This time it was something BIG! The night sky was dark though, so I couldn't see WHAT it was! There was a towel on the deck chair, so I grabbed that and started 'shoo-ing' her away, frantically. She didn't care! She was determined that she was going to bring me this gift whether I liked it or not! By this time she had already jumped up on our eaves and was coming across to me, she was only a few feet away! ACK! I still couldn't see what this thing was that she had hanging from her mouth. All I could tell was that it was almsot half the size of her! YUCK!

A thousand thoughts were racing through my mind!
"what could it be?"
"was it a huge rat!?!??"
"WHAT DO I DO!?!?!"

I grabbed a glass of water, and threw the water at her! She STILL wouldn't stop.

By this time, she's getting ready to jump from the eave onto the deck where I'm standing. I could tell that what she had was a bunny. A young bunny. So now I'm still thinking a thousand thoughts a second.
"Do I run into the house?!"
"What if it's still alive and it needs my help?!"

We had another cat that did this once, years ago, at another house. She had caught a tiny baby bunny and also brought it onto our deck of that current home! What is it with these cats?! That baby bunny was still alive and when she set it down, it started to run around and fell off the deck. We were able to rescue it, and we took it the next day to the wild life recovery center. So of course this memory is flashing through my mind as I'm standing on this deck with this demented cat headed towards me with great determination, and a floppy bunny hanging from her mouth!

So I'm thinking what if I don't run into the house, and she drops the rabbit and it starts running madly on this deck!? The deck is only 8x6 feet, so it's not like I can get away from it. LOL Not that I'm normally scared of bunnies mind you, but in this situation, by this point, I was feeling just a wee bit uptight and freaked out. LOL

She jumps onto the deck, with me still frantically trying to "shoo" her away with my towel. I have no weapon, nothing to fight off this cat, or rabbit, with. lol She drops the rabbit under the deck chair, and I stop, my heart beating a thousand beats a minute, waiting, watching. The bunny must be dead. It doesn't move.

So now my fear turns into anger. Stupid stupid cat! She was a stupid cat last time, but this time, she is a Stupid STUPID cat! I may have called her a friggin cat too. I can't remember. She just needs to be glad I didn't call her a lot worse then that.

So that was my animal antic from the other night.

Then, fast forward to today...

Everyone was out this afternoon running errands except for one of my 8yo twins and my 10yo. They where home with me. They had been writing stories and coloring near by. The 10yo went down stairs to get something, and quickly called for her sister.

Somehow, her sister's snake had gotten out of it's container!
Mind you, the container had a piece of plastic wrap draped on top of it, to keep the snake in.

Hmmmmm... how on earth did a snake escape?!! He must be a very smart snake to be able to slither out from under a piece of plastic wrap draped over his container... Imagine that?!

So now, we have a snake loose in our house. Great! Just what a mama LOVES to hear! Doesn't every mama want to hear that there's a snake loose in the house? I mean it's not like it could 'dissapear' right?

Thankfully, I'm a pretty laid back mama so I didn't panic. I did however, have a few visions fly through my mind. A snake in my couch was one, a snake in the cupboard and food was another. However, I couldn't have imagined where we would have found him.

Guess.

Where would a snake go, if it escaped a container, insde a house?

Well I bet you wouldn't think to check your DISHWASHER now would you?

Nope! I didn't think to check there either. But yep, that's where he was!

Just another day at the funny farm. If this isn't the funny farm, I'm sure to be headed there soon! Where ever it may be!

 

LOL!!!!! Oh my never a dull moment. Snake in the dishwasher?!?! Oy

That's funny Pietra! :)

Our cat killed and presented us a full grown rabbit in the middle of the *living room* (!!!) a couple of days ago. Boy, did that cause a ruckus amongst the natives! ;) We were actually talking of skinning and eating it but then thought we shouldn't deprive our hard working cat of his prize and dh tossed it out into the garage. By this time though the cat had lost interest. We left it there hoping he'd eat it some time in the night after everyone had settled down and gone to bed. No such luck. At this point, I mumbling much the same things you were about your cat. LOL Oh well. The kiddos got to play funeral that afternoon.

Take care and update us soon about the house stuff (still praying)!

I am so thankful my cats are indoor cats right about now lol. And a snake? I would have fainted. Yikes. By the way, I tagged you. :) Check out a dash of sassitude. :)