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I've started my move to my new apartment, and last night we moved my two bureaus, my bedframe and my bedroom rug into the new place so I have a safe place for the cats the day of the move.
Well, as we are moving the furniture, of course I am finding the cats' secret stashes of toys - fake furry mice under every piece of furniture so far.
Well, the guys moved out my long bureau last night and as I am picking up the small cluster of toys from underneath, I found: three furry mice, one white bic lighter and something else that looked strange and wasn't recognizable until I had it in the palm of my hand and held it up to the light.
Then I saw what it was: A mouse skull.
Yup, a skull. Completely dry, not a spec of anything on it.
I freaked out, LOL!
Then I took a closer look, getting down on my knees, and I have to say, thank goodness for brown rugs, because if it had been a lighter colored rug I might have
In a small circle of, uhm, old, long-dried yuckiness was two small rear leg bones and feet, and two teeny front feet. It was impossible to see what color the fur had been, and there was no sign of the tail.
I think it may have been caught by Ginger long before Ferris became a part of our family, as she'd caught one in the kitchen about 7 months after she adopted me, and played with it until I took it away and flushed it.
So I'm thinking, she must have caught another that winter, and played with it until it died, at which point she smacked it underneath the bureau. It had to be winter, because my apartment gets very dry in winter, and I never, not once, smelled anything bad in my bedroom in the last 3 years.
Is that not totally gross and weird?!?
Well, as we are moving the furniture, of course I am finding the cats' secret stashes of toys - fake furry mice under every piece of furniture so far.
Well, the guys moved out my long bureau last night and as I am picking up the small cluster of toys from underneath, I found: three furry mice, one white bic lighter and something else that looked strange and wasn't recognizable until I had it in the palm of my hand and held it up to the light.
Then I saw what it was: A mouse skull.
Yup, a skull. Completely dry, not a spec of anything on it.
I freaked out, LOL!
In a small circle of, uhm, old, long-dried yuckiness was two small rear leg bones and feet, and two teeny front feet. It was impossible to see what color the fur had been, and there was no sign of the tail.
I think it may have been caught by Ginger long before Ferris became a part of our family, as she'd caught one in the kitchen about 7 months after she adopted me, and played with it until I took it away and flushed it.
So I'm thinking, she must have caught another that winter, and played with it until it died, at which point she smacked it underneath the bureau. It had to be winter, because my apartment gets very dry in winter, and I never, not once, smelled anything bad in my bedroom in the last 3 years.
Is that not totally gross and weird?!?