Monday, 23 July 2007

11pm - Just as I'm going off to sleep, live mouse squeaking around my room followed by 3 cats diving under my bed and around the bed ends, down the stairs and back up and round for another lap!

3am - Fight breaks out over dead mouse, now on the frontroom mat!


5am - Thrush begins to chirp behind my unmovable wardrobe as sun breaks into dawn.

5:10am - Thrush thinks now is a good time for the dawn chorus, wakes up the birds who choose to live 'outside' now we are in full throws of Summer song

5:20am - 3 cats and Thrush battle it out over duvet, whilst Christina ignores them as this is now a common event!

5:30am - Christina, who by now can take no more, gets hold of Thrush along with cats and wrings their necks! Truth be known, Christina lets Thrush go free...

5:35am - Thrush plus mad blackbird and 3 cats going mental outside bedroom window.

5:36am - Christina shuts bedroom window and bedroom door!
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Trish said...

Laughing at these two accounts of your cats' exploits, but it also brought me to a serious point of realisation. You forgive your cats their murderous misdeeds because you know 'it's in their nature'. We have a fox visits the garden regularly and we feed it cat food. One day there was a baby jackdaw in the garden which was amusing to watch as he kept tripping over his own feet, trying out grass and other stuff to see if it was edible and generally acting kind of cute. We were watching and enjoying his antics - then the fox hopped over the fence and killed it in an instant before we had time to react. The fox went off about his daily business leaving the dead body there for us to deal with .... awwwwww! It seemed so gratuitous - there was no apparent intention to eat it. Did we punish the fox? No - of course not, we carried on treating it exactly the same, as we understood that it was a wild animal, with killing in its nature. As I thought about those things this morning after reading your story, I realised that maybe I'm hearing an echo of Jesus' love for us - there is no condemnation in his heart for us because he understands our human nature.

Thanks for bringing a laugh to my morning, Christina. So glad I don't have to deal with all the wildlife your cats brought into yours!

24 July 2007 at 12:04

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