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The Tabby Terror Strikes Again – And Again
by admin - 17:49 on 09 March 2013
The Rural Retreat is in danger of being turned into a very small abattoir – or, at least, the area beneath the dining table is.
I returned today from a slightly lucrative morning at Cromarty market to discover one of my slippers missing, although easily located beneath said table alongside the corpse of a heavily savaged vole. Bloodstains inside my slipper suggested that much grisly play had taken place. No felines admitted responsibility.
The ex-rodent was left beside the gate for martens to find (one having visited the night before last).
A short while later, Pandora (my number one suspect) leapt through the cat-flap and beneath the table in what is rapidly becoming a familiar manner. The torch revealed more grisly play; an inspection of the ground around the gate failed to reveal a corpse – the tabby terror had found her earlier victim.
The much-travelled ex-vole was retrieved and disposed of again, this time on top of the gate, and in full view when the scourge of rodentkind repeated her rush. Another victim had been sent to The Great Hole In The Sky.
Now two ex-voles await marten diners – unless Pandora goes for the hat-trick in the meantime.
It's fortunate that Maia has no interest in hunting and Willow has no aptitude (so far). Three furry killing machines could end my garden snappery overnight.
However, at the moment it continues. Today's top sighting was a treecreeper who thinks it's a peanutcreeper.
Band Update: Strawdogs played an unadvertised last-minute gig at Beauly Legion last night yet was able to draw a small crowd – larger than the fully advertised band had garnered the week before, we're pleased to report. Our following is growing.
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