stepping on 1/2 of one with bare feet in your kitchen. STUPID CATS! Off to bleach my feet.

By Janet on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 10:46 am:

LOL Your kitties LOVE you!! I found 1/2 a baby rabbit on my doorstep once, but I can't imagine the squishy feeling you must've had in your kitchen... !!

By Karen~moderator on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 10:48 am:

UGH!

By Andi on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 10:55 am:

Eeeeeewwwwww, I had a cat that would bring us mice, bunnies and lizards all the time. Unfortunately the coyotes got her back in June.

By Brandy on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 11:03 am:

Way ewwww and i was getting ready to eat lol just teasing i'm still going to eat = )

By Trina~moderator on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 11:08 am:

Ewww! Our kitties are indoor pets so we don't get blessed with "real" love tokens.

My Mom's cats are constantly bringing critters in the house, alive or half eaten. Rabbits, birds, mice, snakes, etc.. Often times they don't realize it until the SMELL. Yuck!

By Truestori on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 12:32 pm:

I am so fearful of rodents, very surprising since we live in a rural area. lol
I think I would have still been in hysterics!

By Bea on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 01:52 pm:

What's worse is finding that your husband helped you by emptying the dish washer. The day before I found mouse droppings in my kitchen utensil drawer. I removed everything and put them into the dishwasher. I scrubbed the drawer, and put a peanut butter baited trap inside. The trap did it's work. DH unloaded all the stuff back on top of the dead mouse. MEN! Are they totally clueless or merely blind? Living in an old house with a crawlspace that is open into the basement, we get mice about this time every year. A few traps soon catch or discourage them. Our cat is worthless.

By Colette on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 02:07 pm:

lol Bea, that is worse!

By Cocoabutter on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 02:08 pm:

Bea, that is so true- men are blind!

Everytime my dh asks me- "Where's the butter?"
I say "In the fridge."
he says "I don't see it!"
I say, "On the bottom shelf."
He says, "I still don't see it."

I used to do daycare, and my cat would go outside and catch mice and leave them around the yard, half eaten, and I would have to go out and collect them so that the little ones didn't get them first!

By Dawnk777 on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 02:34 pm:

He put the stuff ON the dead mouse???? Good grief. Do they ever use their eyes.

Someone in my house will ask where is such and such.

Downstairs, next to the tv, under the cd.

The person will come upstairs and say, "I can't find it!"

We will go downstairs together and there it will be EXACTLY where I said it was. They will have not seen it! It goes for my daughters and my hubby! LOL!

By Ilovetom on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 02:44 pm:

LOL. Been there! I love tom as you can see, but....

Recently he got himself a squirrel.

So proud.

By Ginny~moderator on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 05:53 pm:

Worse than that is finding half a bug in a sandwich you've taken a bite out of. (No, it never happened to me, but I've heard of this happening.)

What did happen to me was I opened a kitchen drawer I didn't go into often and there was a whole nest of roaches - babies. I can only guess that the "mama" came into the house with groceries, which was not unknown in the neighborhood I lived in until 1992, and laid her eggs there. Yuck, Yuck, Yuck.

But, I've had mice - whole and half. So far I haven't stepped on them, but I started wearing slippers in the house when my sons started playing with Legos and almost never go barefoot, out of habit.

By Imamommyx4 on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 02:43 am:

When I was a kid I opened a drawer once and a mouse jumped. I screamed and slammed the drawer shut and went screaming for my mom. Slamming that drawer shut caught that mouse and squished it right in the middle. It was ewwwww!! My mom cleaned it up while I cried because I'd killed the poor little guy.

By Bea on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 12:48 pm:

When I was a kid, our family had a summer house in a place called The Villas in New Jersey. Every year, after the weather turned cold, Dad would need to go down, and winterize the place. One year, we all went with him. There was a huge space heater that we kept in the shed all summer. Dad brought it in, and set up in the living room. My parents bedroom was in the back, so they slept on the sofa bed in the living room for warmth. We three kids, (10, 7 and 2), were in the two bedrooms off the living room. Dad was in the bathroom, doing some plumbing project, and Mom was reading on the Hide-a-Bed, when she heard some scratching sounds beneath her. She was out of the bed, and on to the kitchen table in seconds, screaming for my Dad. By now we were awake, and at our bedroom doors. Dad lifted the bed and looked under it....nothing!!!!...but when he thumped it back down onto the floor, five baby mice and their mother scurried across the floor. Mom was shrieking. Dad was chasing mice with a broom, and we were rooting for the mice. TOTAL BEDLAM!!! He finally dispatched the mouse family, while we cried, and scooped them into a paper bag. We begged to be able to bury them in the morning. The next day those fallen soldiers were given a military funeral. My older brother requisitioned a milk carton, that we painted brown. We lay or fallen comrades in a bed of toilet paper. We dug a suitably deep grave under the trees out back and carried the coffin, now covered with a small flag to the grave site. Chuck fired several rounds with his cap rifle, while Dan and I lowered the mouse family with two of Dad’s belts. We all hummed taps. We all stood, saluted their bravery, filled in the grave and set up the marker. That board marker, that we painted, stood over the grave for many years.

By Momaroze on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 06:44 pm:

What's worse, Spiders!!!! Agh! Mice don't bother me one bit, even half eaten ones that I could potentially step on LOL.

By Missmudd on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 11:04 am:

Well my "girls" have brought me many offerings over the years, I think that they think that I am the cat mama since I am the primary feeder. I have stepped on two offerings in my time and both first thing in the morning because they leave them by my bed so that when I get up to go pee I can scream like a little girl.

Anyway my fav offering I found in my husbands home office. Imagine if you will a bat head and 2 bat arms, thats it, the leathery bits gone along w/ the body. It was like the godfather, and kinda creepy.

By Mommyathome on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 01:27 pm:

Oh my goodness! Yuck!!!

We don't have a kitty anymore I wish we did. I love them!

By Janet on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 01:35 pm:

Bea...ROFL We always had (and still do) funerals for fallen birds, pets, etc... Got so bad that I couldn't remember where everyone was buried and lived in fear of digging someone up! We currently have crosses all over for hamsters, goldfish, birds...