Mouse patrol

Last night it snowed a little bit.  A cold front had come through.  Ironically the cold front warmed our temperatures up as the front scoured out the cold air that sat in our Valley the past week during the inversion.

With temperatures in the 30s and sun Daisy spent much of the afternoon outside.   Early afternoon I found a present from her: a dead mouse on the porch by the door.   I removed it when Daisy went inside the house.  At least she learned from the previous mouse... not to eat them.

A short time later Daisy went back outside and... no mouse.  While I shoveled some snow Daisy crossed the fence into the hayfield.  This was an area that, when I used to see stray cats, was the place they lingered and watched.  A short time later Daisy came back with another mouse.  A few days ago I watched as she pounced on top of snow in a futile attempt to get something.  Now she learned how to get mice from under the snow.  She is a smart cat.

The mouse was alive... barely.  The mouse didn't last long.  I let Daisy play with it for a while until she tired of it.  Then I got rid of it.   Tammy doesn't like seeing mice.  The other night as Tammy was getting ready to go to bed she turned a light on in the kitchen and shrieked. It turns out the object was Daisy's stuffed toy mouse.

Look at her tail in the first photo.  Straight, then up.  Backwards, double-jointed up?

In the second photo Daisy is washing up after playing with her food.  She didn't eat the second mouse either.

Here is a 1:18 video of Daisy playing with the second mouse.  She plays with it just like when she plays with her stuffed toy mouse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1cTp30l_DI