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Monday Nov 12th - Real Life Tom & Jerry

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Posted by: knightrider45 Monday 12th November 2007, 8:11pm

At exactly 1.50am this morning, the silence of the household was shattered to smithereens by this horrible yowling noise from the hall. Stupid cat had brought in a mouse with her again.

This is the cat that adopted us years ago, after the Teenage One, then a proper little girl, fed her canned tuna. Over the next 8 years or so, we cleared ownership of the cat from its former owners, who have since moved away, the Teenage One lost interest in her "project" and the cat has since formed an unbreakable bond with my manager, aka the wife.

So much so that it's a case of My Cat And I.

But it was me who had to get up at this stupid hour of the morning today. The piercing, mournful yowling occasionally stopped for a few seconds, and this sudden, unexpected silence, was followed by the most horrendous thudding and banging as the cat proceeded to chase it's prey into closed doors and around the lounge.

I got up to find the cat on the manager's computer desk, attempting to get the mouse, which had run around the back of it for safety and escape from the cat.

By 2.15 am this mornng,I was dragging the desk out and clearing everything from under it so I could get to the mouse and put it outside. The cat, on watching me, decided that it couldn't wait any longer, and pushing past me, making me jump and hit my head on the desk, launched into an all out offensive to catch the mouse, being smacked by this years Norwich Yellow Pages as she knocked it over onto herself, which made her jump back into me, resulting in yet another head banging session.

So, in a single 3ft wide square desk opening, there was me on my knees, The Cat, and the mouse, all together in a really tiny cramped space.

On eventually freeing myself from the makeshift safari park under the desk, I stood up, just as the light bulb blew. All of a sudden, I was in this darkened, freezing cold room, with THAT horrible yowelling and fighting going on around my ankles.

That's when I gave up and went back to bed.

The wife got up this morning and found her desk pulled away from the wall and various boxes, crates and telephone directories in the middle of the lounge. The Mouse was still there, somewhere, as was the cat, who was still sitting on guard, watching for the mouse, some five hours later.

We (sorry, I) eventually found the mouse, rescued it from the cat, and put it out into the garden at about half nine this morning. The cat still keeps looking for it now. And to get the mouse, we had to empty a five shelf unit where we keep all our videos, and drag the unit out, after blocking all possible mouse exits with some of the videos, to catch it. And, at one stage, I ended up in a tug of war with the cat, the mouse in the middle of us, until I gave in, in case the mouse split in half between us!

A simple life? Well, maybe one day - you never know!

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