Thursday, August 28, 2008

I LIVE WITH A KILLER!!!

Our cat Frank likes to go outside (he has a harness and a leash), and fancies himself a mighty hunter. He doesn't usually catch anything, and you can almost hear the small creatures in the yard laughing at him. However, he occasionally gets lucky--I think he sometimes comes across an old animal....well, this morning, in the rain, Frank managed to capture this unfortunate chipmunk--
He meowed & scratched at the door, and when I looked out, he had the thing in his mouth, wanting to bring it in. I'm sure he figured it would be great sport to chase it around the house, where it couldn't get away........It didn't appear to be injured, except that Frank had bitten his tail in two--as seen below....I felt kinda bad, but that's the way of nature. I brought Frank in, gave him a can of wet food (cat people will know why I had to reward him for catching a chipmunk for me--dog people just won't understand....), then went out and guided the unfortunate creature back to the brush. I assume he'll go on to live a normal life, although he'll have a great story to tell his grandchildren about how he escaped the evil clutches of the Devil Cat--and he'll have the stubby tail to prove it!

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