So, I sleep very well most nights - sometimes I have bad dreams, sometimes I have good dreams, but overall nothing crazy. So this morning was a bit of a bad dream....
My alarm goes off at 5:30a.m. (it was a morning for bootcamp so I was up early), when the alarm goes off it signals Lulu (my 6 pound cat) to come meow and get me out of bed because she gets fed and treats. With Lulu's encouragement I drag my butt out of bed, but as I am about to walk out of the room I see a larger-than-Lulu shadow in the door, so I check beside me and there is my little cat, look back at the doorway and there is still another pair of beady little eyes! At this point, I freak - I jump back onto the bed and scream at Ty to wake up and turn on the lamp (I couldn't get to the light switch, it was too close to the shadow) - he groggily asks why (note: don't ask questions when your wife is screaming and jumping on the bed) - I tell him because there is another cat in the house, he turns over (slowly) and turns the lamp on, the thing is gone and Lulu is looking at me like I am crazy .......
Ty tells me it was likely a big mouse or something - I explain that it was larger than that and ask calmly if it could be a raccoon!? He says the worst response: "It could be a giant rat" ....... so by now the thing has ran away and I convince myself that I was seeing things so that I can come down off the bed and go to bootcamp. As I am in bootcamp suffering I can't get the idea out of my head that the shadow is in fact a rat, I try every excuse to convince myself that I was just seeing things but I know I saw Lulu and the shadow separately ...... OMG it must be a rat.
After bootcamp is over I walk home and Ty is in the kitchen (normally he would still be sleeping), so this situation is clearly got to him as well - he tells me that it makes sense that it is a rat (just what I need to hear!). He explains that Lulu has never ate a full cup of food and now she is licking the bowl clean every day!? Then just a few days ago Ty asked me why I moved her food dish way over to the heater? I explained that I hadn't - which means someone or something else did - and our little Princess cat would never use her energy for such a task. Then, if you look around the rim of her food dish there are little mud claw marks, I thought maybe Lulu was playing in her water dish and found dirt, but had I thought harder I would have realized that the Princess cat would never get her royal paws muddy ....... OMG, this all makes sense!
Luckily Ty has come up with a plan to rid us of our big rat friend - we will hunt it, I mean really, people hunt turkey and this things MUST be as big as one ........ if that fails, we resort to a live trap - I don't want to poison the thing and end up having it die and rot in my house ...... bleck!!!
OMG! A rat!
xo,
S
