NaturallyResilient

About

When you live in the country on 68 acres there are bound to be field mice. We preferred the mice to stay out side however the cats thought otherwise. At least one of them did.

LC was a young, energetic part Siamese who constantly talked, which is why she was named LC which stands for Loud Cat. You would think with all that chatter going on she would not be able to sneak up on anything let alone surprise a mouse enough to catch it. But she was a great little mouser. However she had one little quirk that made her mousing not real popular around the house, she would bring the mouse inside and had discovered if she put it in the bathtub she could play with it without it being able to escape. I would hear noises coming from the bathroom and see LC in there playing with a mouse. When she saw I was about to take her mouse away she would grab it and I would grab LC and carry her outside with her mouse where she would either lose it or finish it off.

Sometimes the mouse was not in so good a shape. I spied on her once in the tub with a partially eaten mouse batting it around. She would bat at it and it would go sailing into the drain hole. She would then dig it out and bat it around some more. I guess the drain held the excitement of a mouse hole for her. But that explained why I would sometimes find the hind quarter of a mouse in the drain screen. I never did tell overnight guests what went on in that bathtub. I always cleaned it thoroughly and shut the door against LC when expecting a guest.