First Kill
Yup! Q's a mouser and here's her first kill.
I was awakened about 5:30 this morning by a rapid dance of cat's feet on the carpet and the unmistakable eeek! of a mouse in distress. Suzy Q had brought her prey up to the bedroom to show it off before she made the kill.
It was not a slow kill by any means. The creature was batted and tossed about by paw and mouth repeatedly. It never had a chance. Q Beans was on autopilot, and she was much too fast and much to agile for it to make an escape.
Humans domesticated cats thousands of years ago, probably because of the cat's eagerness to hunt the mice that ate the grain stored as food, without the cats eating the grain themselves. Seems that with Suzy on the job we are on the way to a mouse-free house and pantry for the first time since it was built.
I was awakened about 5:30 this morning by a rapid dance of cat's feet on the carpet and the unmistakable eeek! of a mouse in distress. Suzy Q had brought her prey up to the bedroom to show it off before she made the kill.
It was not a slow kill by any means. The creature was batted and tossed about by paw and mouth repeatedly. It never had a chance. Q Beans was on autopilot, and she was much too fast and much to agile for it to make an escape.
Humans domesticated cats thousands of years ago, probably because of the cat's eagerness to hunt the mice that ate the grain stored as food, without the cats eating the grain themselves. Seems that with Suzy on the job we are on the way to a mouse-free house and pantry for the first time since it was built.
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