Henrik Checks In

Henrik's made it to Munich, where he's going to visit with some friends. It took him 26 hours to get there, and it's been raining for 3 days. I asked him what he does with the mice Kitty catches and he says he always lets them go outside again.

I wonder if the all the mice Kitty brings in are just the same little one?

Hi to Henrik and his friends in Munchen :) Have something Bavarian to eat for me!

Hungry Kitty

When we went to visit the first time, there was lots of food in the dry food bowl, but Kitty had clearly been saving his appetite for mouse. I guess once I removed mouse, Kitty had nothing else to do/eat, so ate up his dry food.

Yesterday when I went to feed Kitty, there was no one at home that I could see; no mouse, no cat. By the time my daughter and I had filled up the bowls, Kitty came bursting through the cat flap, meowing her thanks before chowing down.

I like this cat. Since she spends a lot of time outdoors, I've yet to see evidence that she even uses the litter box. Maybe that's something that's more important to her in the winter. I just hope she stays out of my flower garden.

I meant to go over and cuddle with Kitty during the hockey game last night, but got caught up in getting ready for my race this morning. I'll feel more like sitting around with a cat later today, I suspect.

First Visit

Today my daughter and I went over to feed Henrik's cat. Kitty greeted us with a meow. There was still plenty of water and dry food, but we gave her a packet of wet Whiskas stuff, which she immediately began to eat. We watched the Tampa Bay vs. Ottawa hockey game while we waited for her to finish eating. When she was done, I thought she might want to play, or cuddle, but she was much more interested in something behind the portable stereo on the floor.

Oh dear. Henrik had warned me about this. Apparently Kitty, who is also an outdoor cat (comes and goes through a cat flap), enjoys bringing home mice for entertainment.

I moved the stereo to see what was going on, and the cat grabbed the mouse and headed for the bedroom. I took some cds out of their case, to use it as a container for entrapping the mouse. The cat let the mouse go, and mousey stared at kiddo and me for a minute before scampering under Henrik's jacket on the chair. The cat enthusiastically scampered over to look for the mouse, but it had climbed up the jacket. I caught the mouse and used a magazine to keep it from jumping out.

Kiddo and I headed out to the woodpile out back and let the mouse go. I don't know what Henrik does when Kitty brings home a mouse - does he let the cat eat it? Does the cat just play with it? I just didn't think it would be a good idea to let a mouse find a place to hide in Henrik's aparment. If the cat brought home more mice which it didn't eat, it could get messy.

Henrik asked me to take care of the CAT, not its guests, eh?

Being Neighbourly

Henrik is the German guy who lives next door, and this winter a stray cat adopted him. It tried to adopt my family too, but my husband's allergies are too severe to risk having him live with a cat again.

Earlier this week Henrik gave me his key, showed me the pile of food he'd bought for Kitty and went to Germany for a month. I told him I'd e-mail him updates on the cat, so he'd know how it is doing. What the heck, I might as well blog it, eh?