Friday, July 20, 2007

Mice and the Hole

There's never a dull moment in our house. This morning we found a hole in a corner of my bag of food on the pantry floor. "Mice," my PCG squealed, "rabbit food everywhere." She's been a bit funny about mice since Figgi the cat died. Packets, boxes, jars and tins flew off the shelves and were put down for me to check. The cornflakes needed special attention to make sure there was nobody hiding inside. You never can tell with mice.
"Not a sign of a single mouse," she announced when everything had been put back. I could have told her that, I know who nibbled the hole. Can't say though.
Never a dull moment is right.


1 comment:

George Online Cat said...

My caregiver, Celia, has been experimenting with cardboard boxes - to keep me busy. She places food at the end of a cornflakes packet, like the one in your picture. Or she makes a circular hole in it and tapes up the ends. I have to work to get the food out. Usually I am busy enough hunting (I will spare you the awful details) but the last weekend, with floods all around, I have been very bored and the boxes came in handy. There's details of how I survived the floods on my blo.