A very professional and reasonably priced glazier arrived this morning with a new pane of glass for our back door. No ordinary pane of glass, this one had a hole so we could fit a cat flap, thus ending months of running around opening and closing the door for our ungrateful little beasts. Hurrah!
However, for some reason Marmot's first response to getting a new cat flap was to run off into the garden and kill a blue tit. Is this a traditional form of cat celebration, a sort of barn-raising party which takes the form of a ceremonial sacrifice? Or is it her way of saying, "At last! Now I can bring dead things into the house any time of the day or night! I hope you don't mind mice on your head at 3 am hur hur hur."?
If killing little animals is a form of celebration, I'm just glad it's not something we humans do. Imagine:
"Susan, your excellent work around here hasn't gone unnoticed: we're going to promote you to Deputy Vice-Head of Marketing (Hertfordshire).""That's wonderful news. Excuse me..."
*Squeeeeek*
As a follow-up to this post, a couple of days ago Marmot brought her first mouse in through the flap. Luckily it wasn't hurt and I was able to get it off her and set it free again.
ReplyDeleteShe wasn't happy about it, mind.