A Mouse in the House

A Mouse in the House

by orionstorm ~ Saturday, January 2, 2010

House sitting for a co-worker. More like pet sitting, really. Which is basically cool. I like pets....except the snake. Eh..

It's only for the weekend, unlike the week I did in August. But this time, it's a little different.
I had to work this morning, and though I was dead tired last night, I had a hell of a time falling asleep. Chalk it up to the dog constantly going over to the window like there's someone here, or the fact that that window is huge, and there's no drapes on it. Slightly uncomfortable.

Could also be that I'm sleeping on the couch. Hm.

Had my mobile phone's alarm set so I wouldn't oversleep, but I didn't end up needing it. Just before six in the morning, I woke to the cat running into the room, then out. Into the room and out.... over and over and over! WTF.

Having a cat myself, I knew something was up. She was carrying something in her mouth.

I hoped it was a toy.




Nope!
OH....CRAP!! It squeaked! What the hell is going on?!

The cat--a normally sweet, cute, cuddly little ball of fur--was playing with a mouse. Just playing with. Picking it up and carrying it all over the place, then dropping it to see if it'd run. It did. Then it'd start squeaking again.

Ugh!


I had to admit, I was proud of myself for not jumping on a chair, shrieking my head off, but that's about as far as I got. I did start shrieking at the dog who wasn't doing a damn thing, and at the cat for not ending the poor rodent's misery immediately. Fat lot of good it did me though!

Dog! Do your job, and rid this house of the intruder! *Dog walks away uninterested*

Cat! Quit playing with it and get rid of it!! *Cat ignores me*



The cat ended up losing the mouse. Right afterward, I left for work. So as far as I know, it's still running around in here...and I have one more night to go.


Please let that mouse have gone outside! Please...



I want to go home now.