There is a critter in my house!

[PlymouthRocker]

I have officially fired our three cats! They just watch as the little rodent runs around our upstairs looking for a way out. It looks like a chipmunk, but doesn't have stripes or a bushy tail. Arghhhh! I hate the thought of it running around while I'm sleeping.

I'm hiding the cat food right now.

 

[debilorrah]

Does it have a long hairless tail??

 

[gritsar]

Wait! Do you mean cats are suppose to eat something other than the very expensive food I put in their dishes on demand several times a day????

Edited for spelling. Dang! Someone let me know when my brain gets back from vacation please.

 

[Tala]

You're on BYC and surprised you have a critter in your house??? LOL I call all my kids "critters" so.... I was expecting that you had gotten a new pet!

That's awful about the rodent problem, er your lazy cat problem.

 

[debilorrah]

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I try to catch mistakes, but I missed yours!!!!

 

[LilBizzy]

Ugh, I hate that. I would rather walk alone down a dark alley in the worst part of town at 1am on a Friday night than even SEE a critter in my home. I only had one cat that would catch em. The other cats sat there licking their paws lazily as the critters would run in circles around them.

But.... I recall a story where someone's cat brought them a gift in the middle of the night- and it was still alive. So maybe better the cat doesn't catch it.
Yet, at the same time, I remember reading the Little House on the Prairie books, and a mouse was chewing on Pa's hair..

So, when we have a critter, I will only go to bed with the doors shut tight - cats out of the room, wearing a hat..

 

[Tala]

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Mine like to leave presents on the bottom step, so when I come out barefoot in the summer squinting in the sunlight . . .

I think there's worse things than alive critters

 

[PlymouthRocker]

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No, not hairless. Fuzzy. I thought it was a mouse at first, but the tail is too short and fuzzy. Then I thought it was a chipmunk, but there is no striping. And the face looks a little different - - - in the eyes somehow.

 

[PlymouthRocker]

Freaking out here. I've procrastinated going to bed as long as I can.

The cats will be hungry - I took their food dish away.

 

[PlymouthRocker]

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I remember other things from the Little House books - - - totally selective memory for me. Critters creep me out!