PS: Mr Dearling managed to get the mouse safely outdoors where it ran away like a shot...no doubt to brag about it to all his little mousie buddies. Then he'll probably come in for another game of chicken. Oy.
Dale-Harriet in WI | Homepage | 08.30.07 - 12:40 pm | #

Must be the season - we had a terrible dust-up last night when Lilliane happily trotted into the living room with a mouse in her mouth! She and Evangeline had a great game with it until Mr Dearling caught it in a bowl and took it outside. Imagine the scene: me, squished up agains the back of the sofa, shrieking (yeah, it's girlie, but hey...) and yelling "don't hurt her, don't hurt her" (referring to either the mouse or Lilliane, even I wasn't sure), poor Mr. Dearling rushing around to get a bowl, a folder to put underneath to get the mousie [he was rooting around in the file cabinet looking for an EMPTY one, for petessakes] and the cats prowling around the bowl making wild-jungle-hunting-Egyptian-killer sounds. I think henceforth I'll try to keep still and let the cats have their way. Not great for the mouse, but the fracas was a bit trying for us all.
Dale-Harriet in WI | Homepage | 08.30.07 - 12:38 pm | #

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Aimee | Homepage | 08.29.07 - 7:16 am | #

"Knitting with kittens" is somehow disturbing, after the previous bits of your posting...

But that yarn, so pretty.
Valerie Polichar | Homepage | 08.27.07 - 6:34 pm | #

Hahaha. I would never even consider shaving our cats myself although I do think we should get them shaved, just to cut down on the cat hair tumbleweeds that roll through our house. Pretty yarn, btw.
Erika | Homepage | 08.27.07 - 6:13 pm | #

Ah the benefits of having big dogs (easier to shave them yourself)!

I love the color of that yarn. What colorway is it?
Lani | Homepage | 08.27.07 - 3:28 pm | #

Rooster and Travis' fun definitely sounds like something my hubby would do with either one of our four-legged family members. Have a safe trip out west!
Phoebe | Homepage | 08.27.07 - 2:00 pm | #

after a similar "i can do this if i just suck it up and try" experience with trimming my dog's toenails, (resulting in my cutting too short, calling my mother, having her come over to hold a towel on his foot, racing to the pharmacy, waiting in line to pay for a styptic pen, and coming home to a STILL-BLEEDING dog with my mom applying pressure to his foot in a room that looked like a scene from a horror movie), i agree: there's a reason why some things just get paid for and handled by professionals.
danielle | Homepage | 08.27.07 - 1:25 pm | #