I was just about to fall asleep when I hear my daughter scream my name! Any Mom knows this scream! It makes your hair on the back of your neck stand! I jump out of bed almost killing myself as my legs are wrapped up in the blanket, I run out of my room and there she is she goes "TONKA HAS A MOUSE!!" with that she grabbes the cat and throws a box down over the said mouse!! With that Tonka and Tess run past me! Tonka has the mouse in her mouth, It's screaming my daughter is screaming waking up everybody! I'm In fast pursuit of Tonka as she has the mouse, My oldest son is down stairs and hears the screaming of my daughter, The mouse is now silent! I scream Run into the study as Tonka has headed that way and stop her! I'm running down the stairs right behind her, My son comes around the corner. Tonka now drops the mouse at my sons feet! Now the mouse is dead and pretty bloody, My son looks at the mouse and almost pukes. I throw a box over the mouse so the cats will leave it alone. I tell the screamer to go get me the dust pan so I can pick up the dead mouse. Now I have the oldest son gagging My youngest son standing on the stairs as he woke up to all the screaming, My daughter is about to have a heart attack, Screaming the cat came on her bed with the mouse, We have no idea where she caught it(The house was built in 1841 so it could have been anywhere!)the gagger brings me the dust pan and in one scoop I have the dead Mouse and 3 kits stalking me! Now I have to pass the screamer and the gagger with the dead mouse! Well you would have thought I had T-rex on the dust pan! They all part so I can walk through with my Parade of kits following me! With Questions of what are you going to do with it! I walk out the front door and down to the trash cans with bare feet mind you with the dead mouse and I toss it in the trash! I come back in with the dust pan! Well my kids tell me to throw it out it has dead mouse on it! I washed the dust pan with bleach and cleaned up the bloody mess in the study! I will let you know I went to sleep with a smile on my face wondering what they would have done If I had not been here!
I hope This made you all smile! It's just another Day in the life of Dorie!!
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Posted 3 years ago by 4 kits staff #
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Brave Dorie!
Posted 3 years ago by paulajeanne #
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It was a dead mouse Now if it had still been alive...
Posted 3 years ago by 4 kits staff #
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Three Cheers for Dorie!!!!!!!!!!
You came, you saw, you conquered!A moment of silence for the mouse please...
Posted 3 years ago by cricketsmama #
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I forgot to say that I thanked Tonka for her present! my kids wouldn't touch her as she has mouse breath!! It was and Is still pretty funny!
Posted 3 years ago by 4 kits staff #
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Have a great day all I gotta go to work!! Yuck!!
Posted 3 years ago by 4 kits staff #
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hahaha...what a great visual! Once my Yoyo caught a mouse in my apartment, and dropped it at my feet; poor thing was already dead, BUT was missing a leg...I tore the apartment apart looking for the "mouse part" but never did find it...we moved shortly thereafter; I was having nightmares!
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Good story Dorie! Here in Fla. my outside cat (passed away in June :( ) would bring me mice - unless it's really cold, they don't need to try and come in here; however, my indoor cat Abby, has a cat door that goes out to a screen door where her litter box is kept. She sits out on the screen porch at night and waits for those big "palmetto buys" to crawl within her grasp..... then she brings them up to me (in bed, usually around 3am) and presents me with her "gift". She must be so proud of herself, because I can hear her "singing" her way up the stairs with her treasure in her mouth! So I've learned when I hear her singing at night - to meet her at the doorway with a wad of toilet tissue in my hand so I can "receive" her present (and then flush it of course!!)
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LOL at the visual of kids, cats, mouse, and Mom!
Why do all cats think their "gifts" need to be presented during the night?!Posted 3 years ago by LadyKat of IA #
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I had a cat dig a fish head outta the trash and leave it under the cpvers of my bed when I was a teenager. At the time I never checked under the blankets and got right in bed and felt somthing slimmy which started the screaming. Of course I wouldnt look and made my mom do it and she found the offending "present" and told me about and even changed the bedding for me
Posted 3 years ago by TheKnittingNinja #
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Now the question is Dorie, were you able to go back to sleep after all that chaos? What a funny event! Your poor daughter and poor Tonka. Good Tonka..bringing in a treat to share.
Posted 3 years ago by SylMiaFelixMomma #
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LOL, Dorie! Dara brought in a little skink the other day and I made MrKK pick up the poor, wee, still alive thing and take it back outside. Dara was most unimpressed and kept looking for it for ages.
Posted 3 years ago by KapitiKats in NZ #
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LOL Dorie! It sounds like Tonka has been taking some pointers from Tikka! Tonka must have been very pleased with herself to have gotten the whole household so excited and involved in the "game".
We had another round of "Chase the Mouse" this evening too! Abbi - I know what you mean about the "singing". Tikka doesn't sing exactly, but I heard her meowing at the bottom of the stairs that was definitely aimed at getting attention, but was very different from her normal sad, poor little starving me, please feed me meow. I came down the stairs just in time to see the mouse run under the telephone table. Tikka presented us with a particularly high level of difficulty this time due to all the wires, the location of the table in a corner, and the open space underneath it. We triumphed however, rescued the mouse and released him back into the wild. However, I have a bad feeling that Tikka is out looking for Round 2 even as I type this!
Posted 3 years ago by Rubia in CA, 4/28 #
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OK, I have to share my story. I discovered, a few years back, that I had a rat living under my stove. Talk about yuck, he had a nest under there with all sorts of stuff but mostly dog food it was stealing from the dog bowls. Did I say yuck? It gets worse. So, how do I eradicate a wood rat living under the stove? My son and I headed to Lowes where we perused the rat killing stuff. I decided on one of those sticky pads, poor decision, I can't reccommend this product. So, we go home and I place two sticky pads behind the stove and dishwasher. Well, about 30 minutes later we hear this commotion in the kitchen. The kids, Bailey and Cali, and all of the dogs and cats came running. Poor Mr. Wood Rat, he had his face stuck to one pad and his back leg stuck to the other pad. It was screaming and flopping about, the kids were screaming and I was screaming. My son kept yelling, "I am not going to kill it, what are you going to do?" My daughter was crying. I surveyed the situation like any Mom would. OUt came the dust pan, a box, and a broom. I finally managed to scoop up poor old Mr. Wood Rat and put the box over the broom and dust pan. I marched straight out to the garbage can and unceremonously dumped Mr. Wood Rat into it. Meanwhile, the kids are screaming that I am cruel and mean. What else was I supposed to do? The garbage was being picked up the next day and I certainly couldn't bop Mr. Wood Rat on the head. The moral of this story, Do Not Use Mouse Sticky Pads to get rid of your rodent problem. The cats nor the jack russel offered any support in eradicating this vermon!
Posted 3 years ago by tinafishfrombirthplaceofElvis #
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Oh Tina! I can certainly sympathise! I am absolutely no good at dispatching varmints! But sometimes the other alternative is not great either.
We had a creature coming into our attic at night. We could hear it skritching around up there, but whenever we opened the hatch it would scurry off. Mr. Rubia caught a glimpse of what looked like a big long tail, and so was convinced it was a rat. He went and bought a sturdy mousetrap - the kind that slams shut on the creature when it takes the bait. He set it in the attic at bedtime and we went to sleep. I had forgotten about it by the next morning, and just as I was about to get into the shower, I heard this really loud BANG! I poked my head out and looked at Mr Rubia who had gone completely white! I asked what it was, and - with a look of horror on his face - he said it was the mousetrap. Eventually, he worked up the courage to go up and have a look, and it turned out to be just a mouse. Then we felt really bad (I know they are pests!) - thinking it was a mother mouse gather stuff for her nest and now the babies were orphans, etc, etc. Somehow I doubt we will ever use one of those traps again!
Posted 3 years ago by Rubia in CA, 4/28 #
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Geez and all I ever get are cricket parts! Knowing my crew they wouldn't know what to do with a mouse if it came up to them and invited them to Disney World!
Posted 3 years ago by KYKAT 12 23 #
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Hahaha...Reminds me of my old Burmese Boy Mickey I had. Healso would bring things honme to me. One day he brought a big ground mole in. It looked quite dead,all slumped in his mouth. Well...Mickey dropped it at my feet as a prize token of hard work & the darn thing got up & scurried into the kitchen. Ack!! It took about 20 mins. to guide it back outside. I felt bad for Mickey,like he might be feeling rejected from my reaction to his present.
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Before we moved from our 1940's home in Hialeah where rats that ate the avocados would get to the house by walking on the cable wire(first of many yucks) would sometimes get in the house. (an old wood house). Anyway my folks and I were sitting at the table trying to eat a nice dinner when my cat Norm came flying into the dining room in the midst of a heroic battle with rather a large sized rat(YUCK!)Mom and I mustered a considerable scream and Dad cursed but Norman had also decided not to present us with his masterpiece but to continue to wrestle it trying to get as high up as was possible. He climbed on the microwave next to the table,and silly us thinking THAT was bad,screamed anew and this startled him to jump into the middle of the dinner table still carring the thing. We all jumped up simulaneously to get away from Norman and the still moving rat while trying to save the rest of our supper. Luckily we learned to eat quickly therebecause we were definitely done eating then.We finally got the thing from a dispirited Norm who watched his prize being taken outside and then had to clean and bleach the entire dining area down.
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LOL @ KYKAT.
Posted 3 years ago by SammyandOliversmama #
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Dorie I am laughing so had that I scared Deuter and he ran away!! Teaser is chuckling with me it seems. What a visual!!!
By the way Deuter ran into his paper bag this morning and couldn't find his way out. He got scared and went crazy. That cause quite a ruckus in this house! Nothing to compare to your mouse though!~
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I have to concure on the glue traps being a bad idea. I used them in my old apartment and caught Hillary more than any mice and getting those things off of an elderly dog is no easy task. The one time I did get a mouse I felt so bad cause it was gonna die of dehydration and I thought it was cruel and couldnt figure out a way to kill it... well lets just say it was a bad experience. Live traps are not much better cause then you have to let them go and most often they jump right at you...
Posted 3 years ago by TheKnittingNinja #
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LMAO Dorie, I wonder what they would have done without you. Left the cat and mouse alone to let nature sort it all out. I love the visual of the gagger and the screamer. I received a txt one night recently from daughter Meegz saying she was woken by Ruby the cat doing that muffled mouthful yowl, she knew it wasn't going to be good and she was right. Luckily this time the mouse was dead but she had to clean the blood off the carpet and the skirting board. This is the same girl who used to catch mice in the humane traps and then take them for a wee walk to a local horse paddock and release them. Last night Ruby had a wee sparrow and Meegz has discovered that bird heads are not as robust as mouse heads. Definitely early Christmas gifts from Ruby. I had to laugh at all the stories you told. KK will remember the time I 'rescued' a mouse from our cat, I must have been about 17 years old and that darned mouse showed it's gratitude by running up my leg, under my knicker elastic and out the top then on up under the bra strap and down my arm and dropped out the sleeve. It then made the worst decision of its life and ran into the lawn mower that was running at the time.
Posted 3 years ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
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I am sitting here laughing So hard at all of the stories, But I have to say that MS won the prize for the funniest!
Thanks all! I have to say my daughter didn't sleep last night as every time one of the cats went into her room she was scared that they had another mouse!!Posted 3 years ago by 4 kits staff #
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I didn't freak out either as we had been learning to tell the gender of mice at school biology that week. I think I really disappointed my family with my lack of reaction. To this day I don't worry about picking mice up, just use the tail as a handy carrying device. Then wash hands well. It's just as well given the number of mice that Shadz has brought me and then 'lost' in the house. Shadz and I would join forces and hunt the little rascals together, it's quite a special experience to be accepted by your cat as a hunting partner, and fun.
Posted 3 years ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
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