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It's a mouse.
A very dead mouse. Stiff as a board and partly mummified.
And the mouse trap that killed it, because the mouse is still in it.
And the metre long tether wire that held the trap in place.
And he's making his "Look what I caught! Aren't I clever!" noise.
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If your cat placed the mouse trap, he has every right to feel clever...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If I knew who owned the trap, I'd return it.
But neither cat nor mouse is talking. Probably they don't like snitches. 
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: If your cat placed the mouse trap, he has every right to feel clever...
Reminds me of: "Yessir, officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie - I put that envelope under that garbage"
I'd think most of you recognize this from Arlo Guthrie: Alice's Restaurant.
If you do not: Even if it will take eighteen and a half minute of your time listening through it. Go to Alice's Restaurant Massacree[^] to enjoy. And laugh.
Sorry for off tracking but I couldn't resist.
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Years ago we had a female Scottish Terrier, named "Ninya", that brought my wife a mouse that it had caught and killed.
There was no mouse trap attached to the mouse, and it was still bleeding.
All the Scottish Terriers that I have owned over the years were so aloof that they might as well have been Cats.
If I were you Griff, I would keep the cat well fed.
Otto Chriek
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Normally he brings home live or freshly killed prey: mice, voles, rats, moles, squirrels, birds from Tits to Ravens, frogs, and fish. His best - or worst - was two rats as one mouthful : one dead and the other live. Not really sure how he managed that, he's only a small cat and these were fully grown Rattus Rattus examples.
He gets three pouches of cat food a day, plus treats ...
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My daughter is in a life transition and has brought her two cats home with her. They are leaving "gifts" all over the place.
Years ago, my joke was that I wanted to run out of children at home before I ran out of hair. The hair is losing the battle. I now have changed my tune. I want to run out of left over pets before I die 
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Years back, a 17 yo wanted to get a parrot of some kind. Not a bird and not a budgie. I googled the parrot - average life span of 75 years. I'd have to live to 120 to have a running shot between me and the bird. I said no.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
modified 25-Jul-22 14:06pm.
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I think they're running out of normal words 
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It's quite used, at least in literature
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Yeah, but literature is just muscle flexing over how many words you know.
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A large vocabulary is necessary in literature. I read a couple of novels whose writer is severely limited and it's horrible, jarring, mind numbing and generally a terrible experience.
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That's true, but you'd never, or rarely, use some of those words in speaking language.
There is a Dutch word for today's word, but no one ever uses it (unless in jest!).
I guess it's an older word that is no longer relevant.
Of course you'd read such words in older books or books that are set in such time periods.
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Seems I am improving a bit
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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