Wee sleekit timorous beastie
Apr. 11th, 2007 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheThis morning, as I was hanging up the laundry, Emer sitting on the lawn, I spied a mouse on the garden path (incidentally quite close to the blood splatters from Linnea's accident at the weekend), sitting very very still and trembling.
i went in to get Linnea, who came out and looked at it with me. Then Mustard (our largest cat) approached. I grabbed his scruff. Then Charcoal hopped onto the fence to see what was going on. So I picked up the mouse - having told Linnea not to touch him - and had a quick look; no obvious mortal wounds, but possibly something on the abdomen.
I dropped it into the compost bin, where it stayed very still briefly and then moved around a bit. Later I dropped a bit of bread in on top of it, because Emer had already dropped the bread on the ground.
Pointless, of course, since it was probably already seriously injured, but I couldn't let the cats slaughter it in front of Linnea and Emer. I'm not ready for that yet.
Linnea spent a good fifteen minutes later running it a bath in the empty barbecue pan, and then begged me to get it out because it had finished its rest now and needed a be all clean.
i went in to get Linnea, who came out and looked at it with me. Then Mustard (our largest cat) approached. I grabbed his scruff. Then Charcoal hopped onto the fence to see what was going on. So I picked up the mouse - having told Linnea not to touch him - and had a quick look; no obvious mortal wounds, but possibly something on the abdomen.
I dropped it into the compost bin, where it stayed very still briefly and then moved around a bit. Later I dropped a bit of bread in on top of it, because Emer had already dropped the bread on the ground.
Pointless, of course, since it was probably already seriously injured, but I couldn't let the cats slaughter it in front of Linnea and Emer. I'm not ready for that yet.
Linnea spent a good fifteen minutes later running it a bath in the empty barbecue pan, and then begged me to get it out because it had finished its rest now and needed a be all clean.