What's worse than hearing some squeaking and knowing your cat has a bird or critter in the house?

[hedgehog]

Hearing the squeaking and then seeing the cat trot past minus the bird or critter, so now there is a bird or critter loose somewhere in the house!

[TexasTowelie]

1. I've been there recently.

My female kitteh brought in two geckos this week. I eventually found the bodies.

[frogmarch]

2. That's bad, but

it's also bad when your cat brings you the gift of a live bat and puts it right in front of your face on you're pillow while you're sleeping. :-O

[siligut]

5. OK, I am sorry I laughed so hard

And now I can't stop, sorry

[frogmarch]

7. It gets weirder...

The bat squeaked, and the cat grabbed it again and I couldn't get her to let go of the poor thing, so I got a water spray bottle, carried the cat and bat to the bathroom, and held them over the toilet while squirting the cat in the face. She finally let go of the bat, which fell into the toilet. I picked up the bat and took it next door to my neighbor, and he examined the bat and said it would be okay, since it had only small cuts from my cat. We called the vet, and the vet wanted to test the bat for rabies. The bat turned out okay, which made me happy - for the bat, for my cat, and for me. And for my neighbor!

The whole episode makes me laugh. It was totally ridiculous!

[siligut]

11. Aw, I am so glad you took care of the bat

And I am glad there wasn't any rabies, I wonder how often they are infected nowadays. Cats do put us in such ridiculous situations. Mr gut didn't grow up with cats, so when our girl would proudly present him with a small animal, he didn't know what to do. We had quite a laugh trying to trap and release a mouse she brought in for him, I am not at all sure how he would have reacted to a bat.

[frogmarch]

13. :-) Yes, they do like to entertain us,

don't they? I can imagine what a hilarious time you had trying to catch and release the mouse your cat presented to Mr. gut. Cats.

Bats give me the willies, but I fought the willies off long enough to help the bat. After I released the bat, I got all squirmy.

[Major Nikon]

3. I can think of at least one thing that's worse

Hearing your dog pawing at the bed at 3am, followed by laying there in bed trying to wake up enough to let the dog out, followed by the unmistakeable noise of a dog passing a very loose bowel movement on the floor next to you, followed by chasing the dog out of the house, followed by turning on the light to discover a liquid turd trail from the bedroom to the back door.

[hobbit709]

6. That's why I have a dog door

[davsand]

9. You made me laugh with that one.

For me it is a cat version. Waking up in the night to the sound of a cat horking something up on the bed. Booting the cat out of the bed and then cleaning up a trail of cat puke off the bed and across the carpet.

It is a good thing we love them--otherwise they'd get shipped to Neptune sometimes.



Laura

[avebury]

14. Totally agree. I have woken almost out of a dead sleep to hear my cat getting ready to upchuck a

hairball. It is a race to throw her off the bed before she finishes. Then I go looking for her "present."

[bluedigger]

21. Mine likes to puke on the bed.

I've gotten so I can be totally awake by the second retch.

[murielm99]

22. Sounds like my dog this week.

Twice, she has gotten me up at 3:00 a.m., because she had to poop urgently. The second time, she pooped right by the back door and I stepped in it.

We are making sure she eats earlier and goes outside later. We don't need this to become a habit.

[RebelOne]

4. Worse is hearing little critters scratching in your walls.

I was going crazy at night because there was scratching in my walls. I finally called a pest control guy and over a period of a month, he trapped and killed 18 rats.

[HappyMe]

8. That would be pretty bad for me.

Because I don't have a cat.

[rug]

10. Hearing some squeaking and not finding your baby in the crib.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

16. dingo howl over the baby monitor?

[grasswire]

12. I thought mice came inside in the WINTER

Mouse episode here this morning, still unresolved. Trapped under a copper bowl.

[Posteritatis]

15. Hearing barking and knowing your cat has a critter in the house is ominous too. (nt)

[bluesbassman]

17. Hearing some squeaking as you're driving down the road...

and remembering the oil pan drain plug is still in your pocket?

[bluedigger]

20. LOL!

I had a cousin who had a four year degree in small engines and a Kawasaki drag bike he liked to race. Until the time he tore down the engine, rebuilt it, and took it to the track without putting oil in it. Seized up fast and sent him flying down the track on his leathers. Never raced again, I don't think.

[applegrove]

18. Getting the mouse out of your cat's mouth without damage. Seeing the mouse hide under the radiator.

Trying for at least a day to catch said mouse to free it. Realizing the only way to catch the mouse is to let your cat into the bathroom to get it. Letting your cat catch the mouse. Grabbing the mouse out of the cat's mouth and releasing it outdoors. Having your cat visibly mad at you for the next while.

[bluedigger]

19. I had rats in a house I rented in the French Quarter.

It was a nice house, but had set empty for a couple years after Katrina. One day I was watching tv in the parlor, and a rat ran out of the fireplace and into the kitchen! The fireplace had been converted to gas from coal grates and the rat came up from the crawlspace through a gap around the gas pipe. They were going for the dogfood. War on!

[RebelOne]

28. Hope you killed them. When there is one rat, there are plenty more.

I had rats because the field behind me was being cleared for construction. So all those critters thought they would find sanctuary in my house. Well, my pest control guy made short work of them.

[libodem]

23. Bob brought a baby squirrel

Into the basement one summer. It was chaos.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. When you hear very high-pitched squeaking

and the cat is running around and jumping frantically into the air.

My late, great Teddy caught a bat that had got in the house; he did this by leaping up and swatting it out of the air. Then he picked it up carefully, ran downstairs (with me running after him yelling), and crouched under the coffee table with the bat squeaking and flapping in his (the cat's) fearsome jaws. He refused to give up his prize - I believe he considered this catch to be the high point of his career as a cat.

I grabbed a shoe box to collect the bat, but every time I tried to take it Teddy would growl at me and back farther away. Eventually I cornered him and swatted him gently on the haunches with a newspaper; this distracted him enough to loosen his grip on the bat, which I quickly scooped up in the shoe box. The bat seemed to be uninjured, so I put it outside in an arborvitae shrub. I never saw it again, so either it recovered and flew away or some other creature ate it.

Teddy sulked under the coffee table for several hours.

[HopeHoops]

25. Hearing someone screaming and realizing something WAY bigger than your cat has something.

[hedgehog]

26. It's a chipmunk under a cabinet where I can't reach.

[benld74]

27. You hear growling under the sink - but DON'T have a garbage disposal!

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. True!