Mighty Hunter

[sabotabby]

Last night, I discovered that my stack of 11x17 printer paper had a wee surprise in it. Marinetti had apparently stashed a little present in there for me, all dismembered and icky! What a good cat, except that I'd only used about a third of the paper, so it wasn't really the best place to stick it.

I suppose I should be grateful that the only two mice I have ever found in my apartment had already been dispatched by my brave cat, but I do wish he wouldn't squish them. Ugh. I screamed like a girl and threw the entire stack of paper, mouse and all, into the garbage.

I was later informed that my reaction may have been a bit...extreme.

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Comments

[sabotabby]

The two are not mutually exclusive. My first cat used to love my lizards and went into mourning when they died.

[uberbitsch.livejournal.com]

Awww!

I miss southeast asia. A house wasn't complete without a colony of small geckos living behind picture frames and behind furniture. We had one that lived in the kitchen cupboard and whenever we bought groceries he'd come out to inspect the plastic bags without fail before scuttling back to his hidey hole.

That and the crazy-assed badass lizards that lived in the garden and resembled small monitors.

[sabotabby]

And apparently, they eat cockroaches. So they're useful, too.

[uberbitsch.livejournal.com]

Yes! Roaches, mosquitoes when they're small, and other pesky biting insects. And in a lot of Asian cultures they're considered a sign of luck and good omens and whatnot.

I think I want a big iguana. DAMN THE BOYFRIEND'S REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH MY DESIRE TO TURN OUR HOUSE INTO A MINIATURE ZOO

[sabotabby]

Iguanas are awesome! Tell him that he needs to submit to the awesomeness of iguanas!

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

When I lived on Guam, we always checked empty soda cans for geckos before throwing them out (I suspect we had some pretty hyper caffiened-up geckos). We were even more diligent about checking half empty cans that had been sitting out for a while before finishing.

[uberbitsch.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Guam. I was once in Guam airport on my way from Indonesia to Canada when I was four. That's my only claim to contact with the place.