Trauma~

Trauma caught her third  mouse today! The first one she caught was obviously traumatized and after I took it outside, its eyes glazed over and I fully expect it to be dead but I never went to check because I didn't want to know. This was several weeks ago- before she got an abcess that popped. I kept her in for a week and a half.

The day after, Monday, I found the second one, I don't know when she brought it in exactly, but it was hiding out between my bookbag and a textbook and I only discovered it as I moved my bag. He was alive and hyper and hard to catch. But I sucessfully relocated him outside in the backyard, and he hopped off.

The third one was today. Did she find a nest of inexperienced mice, or something? She was out for several hours, and then comes tromping down the stairs loudly. I turned around to look at her, and there she was, gently nudging a grey lump with her paw. This mouse was easier to catch, as it could only hide against the wall and the stairs, and just as hyper and healthy looking as the second. He was relocated out the front door, since Trauma took exceptional interest in what I was doing with her prey, and wondering why it was trapped in the plastic top cover of a DVD stack and a paper plate. Her question was asked with batting paws.

So, Trauma either found mice who are bad at being mice, or she's an inexperienced mouser with talent and no idea how to kill her prey. I wouldn't be surprised at that, since she's been an indoor cat all her life before me.

I wonder if she's bringing micies home to apologize for costing me vet $$, or as a way to bribe me to not lock her inside again....