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Bert Prevails
I was surprised the other day when Bert caught, killed and ate a very large mouse. Peanut’s instructions must be working. Sarah Jane’s legacy seems slightly more secure.
Sarah Jane was the gray smoke barn cat who showed up here in the early 90s and rescued us from the rat infestation we had been enduring for a year or so. She was one tough barncat. I once saw her wail the tar out of a big bulldog bitch which had come too close to her first kitten. The bulldog seemed to be a stray but did not stay around long enough for me to catch her. Sarah was Peanut’s grandmother and greatgrandmother to our other two surviving brood, adept rodent killers all, but now getting on in years. I was afraid that Bert would never measure up to their prowess.
B. seems puzzled whenever he catches a young mouse and always lets it get away, usually unscathed. He toys with the garter and corn snake babies in the spring until I rescue them or they scarper. He managed to kill the sparrow last week but would not eat it. But he had no problem at all with this adult mouse. Oh frabjous day!
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4 Comments
1. Gin replies at 1st December 2006, 9:17 am :
Gorgeous eyes! Enough to mesmerize any mouse!
2. sherry replies at 1st December 2006, 10:32 am :
Bertie is the blackest black cat we’ve ever had — he’s about the 4th in 30 + years — so black that he seems to absorb light, especially in photographs, and all you get are those green eyes.
Our other cats have all had some brown in their fur.
3. Tommy replies at 1st December 2006, 10:46 am :
We left our cat Spook with Isabel’s grandmother over Thanksgiving, and when we showed up to reclaim her we heard all about this mouse that she and our cat had caught.
Spook doesn’t generally bring mice around our place. I guess if she does catch them, she eats them before she comes back in.
I’ve heard tales of a cat that will bring dead mice in and lay them in his food bowl, then sit back and wait for his chef to prepare it. He generally ends up being fed wet food, and the mouse is quietly disposed of.
4. MW replies at 1st December 2006, 6:39 pm :
It’s enough to make you think he might manage to justify his adoption yet. Not that I suppose he really needs to. It’s also a pretty good picture of him, in that he actually looks like a cat rather than a black blob. I’ve never managed to take that good a picture of him, so well done.
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