Do your cats share their catch with you?
I had a most unpleasant experience this morning upon waking!
I vaguely recall at some point before the alarm going off, being aware that one of the cats made their way up the bed, paused a moment between mine and OH's heads, and then left again. Now picture this.......
Hubby and I both woke up, at precisely the same moment, facing each other, and opened our eyes.......to see? A HUGE half-dead spider on the pillow beside his head.....trying desperately to crawl on it's mangled half-chewed legs. Let me point out that I am absolutely TERRIFIED of spiders, and OH is even worse than me! What followed was plenty of jumping about, "girly" high-pitched screaming (mostly from OH LOL!), and arguing about who was going to remove it! And I'm pretty sure there was some cat-snickering going on out on the landing!
I'm pretty sure it was Mouse who left the little gift for us, as Miw has a tendency to catch and eat spiders and flies without pause and they disappear almost before we notice there is one LOL. Mouse however, does not eat anything she catches.......though she rarely catches anything as she's not terribly coordinated or graceful LOL. Mouse has a tendency to play with spiders and flies....letting it start to walk away and then slamming a paw on it, repeatedly until the poor things are half-dead......then she gets bored and leaves them to suffer in agony LOL! So, yes......it MUST have been Mouse who left the spider!
So, did she do it to share her catch? Or was it to show us she was clever enough to catch it? Or does she know how much we hate spiders.......and therefor thought it would be good for laughs? LOL!
What have your cats brought you?
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