There's a killing going on here....
...sitting at my computer desk right off the kitchen, I heard a sound and went to investigate as Paisley darted out past me and sprinted into the living room. I spied a gallon milk jug lying on the floor that I keep to fill water bowls for the critters. "What'd you do that for?" I yelled at Paisley who had now disappeared behind a living room chair. She trotted out and there was that "telltale tail" hanging from her mouth.....yes friends....ANOTHER mouse. Sometimes I feel like we're being invaded by the nasty things and it'll only get worse as the weather gets colder and they move in like the Yankees who escape to Florida each winter.
I wont include all the gory details , but suffice it to say it was a long, drawn out death for said mouse as Paisley caught, released , recaught it over and over again. I called to Sugar, dozing under the kitchen table, and he strolled in looking all sleepy eyed but very quickly got all excited when he saw what Paisley was up to. At the next release, he pounced on the thing and began his own version of "let's play the mouse to death" adding his own special flourishes by throwing it up in the air and leaping on it when it landed. Frankly I got a bit bored with the game and retired to the computer desk to busy myself with mails till it was all over and " the deed was done". Periodically I went into the living room to check on the "progress" only to find the scene replaying itself over and over...Paisley and Sugar actually SHARING the thing by batting it to each other as though they were playing ball...that's a new one!
I am now ashamed to admit that I have "lost" the corpse and cannot find the place where it was [at last] laid to rest. All I know is that both Sugar and Paisley eventually rejoined me in my room , so figuring it was all over, ..I searched the house with a dustpan in one hand and the pooper scooper in the other ...ready to dispose of the dead body outside as usual, but no corpus delicti manifested itself.
I have learned a valuable lesson this day...remain and watch the slaying like a witness at a gas chamber execution or you may be left with an empty casket!
