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Two Criminal Kittens
by admin - 19:56 on 28 March 2013
I've always suspected The Fearless Ones of criminal tendencies – yesterday my suspicions were confirmed.
Teatime came and went with no sign of hungry kittens, which was most unusual, so I left the Mac and went downstairs to investigate. There I found them desperate but unable to get behind assorted junk where their quarry, presumably brought in by Pandora, was hiding.
Before they had time to react, the pair were grabbed and whisked away to The Kittenry, leaving me free to winkle out their victim – who proved far too fast and went to ground behind the bookcase, where it still remained when Matchgirl came home from her day's labour.
By now the kittens were back downstairs and wondering where their quarry had gone. Maia was interested too but proved a totally inept hunter when the small game emerged; Matchgirl was much faster with upturned cup and cardboard. The rampaging rodent, safe at last, was released back into the wilderness of the garden's edges.
Except it wasn't a rodent. Pandora's catch of the day was a common shrew, which my RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife informed me was from the same family as moles and hedgehogs. Furthermore: “Shrews are protected by law, and should not be caught or handled without a licence.” Kittens laugh at the law.
But there was worse to come – a dead shrew (a larger one), left for us to find on the outdoor mat this morning. So now we have a decision to make: do we harbour two furry criminals or report their activities to Northern Constabulary's wildlife crimes unit?
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