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Picture the scene (you may wish to close your eyes for the first bit): I'm having a shower. I'm wet, my hair is wet - and it's long hair, this pony has been growing for twenty years and I can use it as a blindfold if necessary - I reach for the towel, and the cat lets himself in. This is not a good sign, he prefers to have his Pink Blobs act as doorman.
Then he starts yowling. This is his "I caught this!" noise. He strolls past the bathroom and I can see it's quite large, probably mammalian. And moving. It's a mole. A live mole.
So ... throw clothes onto wet body, find glasses - kitchen so they don't steam up - find cat: mud patch on carpet, no mole. Cat looking intently at the chair under the stairs ... The very heavy chair under the stairs. Right beside the "miscellaneous pile of cr@p" under the stairs which is Herself's filing system.
Ten minutes to shift this lot, carefully (don't want to hurt or alarm the rodent, no idea how fast they can run but I do know they can dig like crazy) - it's (hopefully) contained, let's try and leave it that way.
Spot the bugger: snuggled into a corner with it's head under some "essential important object" that Herself hasn't touched in a few years. Pint glass in one hand, I grab with the other, and boom! It's in the glass, upside down, very angry and swearing it's head off in Moleman. Cat watches this process with a faintly amused "is that the best hunting you can do?" look on his furry face. Does he help? Does he buggery.
Over the road, release mole to hopefully have a good life.
Oh well, I needed to hoover under that chair, it's been a while ...
And at least I'm dry now, except for my hair.
Total today: 2 birds (dead), 1 mole (live). Remind me again why we have a cat, will you?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Remind me again why we have a cat, will you?
Instead of kids maybe?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I'm an experienced mouse hunter, up to three mice a day, and I can tell you that the best weapon was within reach while you were in the shower: a towel !
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If I had up to 3 mouse a day to hunt down I would be forced to move (by wife)... And I live in the forest practically...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Most of the mice (and rats) he brings home are deceased already, so hunting is pretty easy once you've prised it away from him (if I don't half of it will end up in my shoe or similar).
Live ones are "fun". 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Remind me again why we have a cat, will you?
The poor thing is working the a$$ off so that you don't starve and finally learn to catch something yourself!
OriginalGriff wrote: don't want to hurt or alarm the rodent
You are still doing it wrong and a mole is certainly not a rodent.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Remind me again why we have a cat, will you?
C'mon, you already know that's backwards!
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One day, our cat caught a young bat and brought it inside the house; it was screaming, but somewhat immobile. I took the bat and let it out; where the cat feasted on it.
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The cat only wanted to share with you the delicious bat... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Ours does bring home Pipistrelles occasionally. Last one he released in the bedroom and we had loads of fun getting it out the window (since they are a protected species and you can't catch, disturb, or move 'em - let alone kill or injure - it's a tricky job). I like bats - they eat gnats and midges!
Eventually it flew out through a gap 2" high and disappeared into the night. Awesome creatures to watch flying!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Luckily he does not bring Pippi Longstocking
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OriginalGriff wrote: Awesome creatures to watch flying
Which obviously brings you to bow to the cat -how he got it in the first place!!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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A cat's ears are second only to those of a bat. They can jump into the air without seeing anything, using the bat's 'sonar' to locate it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Awesome creatures to watch flying!
That high-pitched, barely audible noise they make when they fly still creeps me the f*** out.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm having a shower. I'm wet,
I stop reading at this point. 
I'd rather be phishing!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Remind me again why we have a cat, will you?
Emergency rations.
Cat - The Other White Meat
Will Rogers never met me.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Total today: 2 birds (dead), 1 mole (live).
And that is why we no longer have cat(s). Oz has an incredible problem with wild cats who are creating havoc with the local wildlife. The wild dogs seem to like larger, domesticated prey.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Your cat thinks he's a squirrel and the mole is his friend.
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once there was an endless expanse of something/nothing - emanation from a force unknown to us.
then that something/nothing was divided.
the division of that something/nothing created our reality.
dividing night from day, earth from sky, energy from matter.
an entire creation through division.
we divide too.
citizen from immigrant
gay from straight
crazy from sane.
happy from sad.
this division is pervasive. We create divisions all the time in little and sometimes big ways.
and they reentangle becoming one again.
the whole of existence a wonderful dance of separation and union, the vibrations of which carve out the dollhouse of reality we find ourselves in.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I divide my if statements and the code it should run with braces, you should try it sometime 
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You two may move in together, don't you think?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Now that's some actual morning crazy right there 
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divisions eventually reentangle.
braces are an illusion - what matters is right in front of you.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: what matters is right in front of you
Do you mean literally?
Like my keyboard and monitor are what matter to me?
Or is it more figuratively, like your message is in front of me so you matter to me?
People here are beginning to say strange things, like us flirting and moving in together so I don't know what to believe anymore
I'm not joining the Area 51 raid so whoever's going to set you free, it won't be me.
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