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2006-01-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-01-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Here you see a Syracuse center doing drills.

Posted by badanov 2006-01-19 00:09|| http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl]">[http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl] 2006-01-19 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Just hope you don't come back as a mouse dear woman.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2006-01-19 06:13|| 2006-01-19 06:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Every house that does not have a cat must, sooner or later, have mice. Or, in my own case, my house had an extremely elderly cat who found the temporarily resident chipmunk(!) running across his feet puzzling.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-19 08:36|| 2006-01-19 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I once had an excellent mouser, he would bring me his catches daily.

Problem was they were all alive and unhurt, not much help in the long run.

He'd lay them at my feet, they would sit up, look around and head for the tall timber, then he'd look down and was so puzzled when they weren't where he put them.

I suspect that the same mice got caught many times.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-01-19 08:55|| 2006-01-19 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, and then there was the cat I "inherited" when I got married.

It too presented us with its trophies at night.
Unfortunately, the trophies came from the great outdoors. It seems that the mice IN the house were off limits. (must have been a union thing)

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-01-19 09:48|| 2006-01-19 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Every house that does not have a cat must, sooner or later, have mice.

Or rabbits.

I never saw rabbits around the farm where I grew up. Maybe back away from the house, in the woods, but never within sight of the house. Then the cat we'd had for as long as I could remember died, and the rabbits showed up.

And the geese, but I don't think she kept them away.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-01-19 09:54|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-01-19 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 We don't have any inside our house but the cat catches them outside from time to time. She eats the lower half and leaves the head on the porch.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2006-01-19 11:19|| 2006-01-19 11:19|| Front Page Top

#8 mices need Prozac and peas.

Posted by RD 2006-01-19 11:24|| 2006-01-19 11:24|| Front Page Top

Posted by .com 2006-01-19 11:49|| 2006-01-19 11:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Living dangerously...

Posted by .com 2006-01-19 11:54|| 2006-01-19 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Gorgeous photos, guys!

Apparently, cats bring us mice becuase they are trying to teach us how to hunt, the same way they teach their own kittens. Unfortunately, as a species we are very slow learners. The same cat that in his dotage was puzzled by the chipmunk had caught a large variety of things over the years -- our mighty hunter he was. He tried everything, poor darling: rodents of various species, ditto birds, baby things and adult things, dead and munched upon, dead but beautiful, half dead, and alive but in shock; on the doorstep, at my feet, and once, memorably, a live pigeon in my lap as I was braiding trailing daughter#1's hair before Kindergarten. She got there late that day.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-19 22:11|| 2006-01-19 22:11|| Front Page Top

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