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22nd-Mar-2008 03:35 am
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It is 3:30AM. I've been up late handling some HD backup chores, and reading political blogs.

Just as I am wrapping up for the night, I hear Alma's cat flap door open in the dining room. Somebody forgot to lock her out.

I start debating with myself whether to catch her and put her out, or let her in to sleep with us (and face the consequences) when I hear a loud "meow", and a thump.

She has just dropped a live mole (!!!) in the entry to the room!

Quickly before the mole can scurry away into the bedroom where [info]serolynne is sleeping, I grab the only container within reach - a beautiful small antique ceramic vase the the Purge Genie had been listing on eBay earlier in the night. I plop it over the mole, and try to shush Alma away so that she doesn't topple it.

As I look around to find a more appropriate container, the vase starts crawling across the floor. Egads!

Somehow I manage to find a tupperware filled with electronics, screws, and wires from the closet, which I then proceed to dump all over the guest bed. Hurrying back, I manage to stop the runaway vase (and pursuing cat) just before it reaches the hallway.

Lifting the vase, I quickly re-capture the mole in the tupperware.

It's now 3:45AM. I have a tupperware container full of scurrying, waddling mole. It has giant flipper feet, a cute snout, and seemingly no eyes.

Alma's Mole Alma's Mole

First a snake, now a mole... What next?!?
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22nd-Mar-2008 12:58 pm (UTC)
[info]serolynne
Ok.. the really ironic part here is that yesterday was Fritz's birthday. He loves it when Alma brings home moles, because he hates them tearing up the yard. (This is about the 20th one she's brought home, btw.)

The card I got Fritz said 'I let my cat pick out your birthday present.. hope you don't already have a dead mouse'. I crossed out 'mouse' and put in 'mole'.. and asked Alma to bring us a mole to give to Fritz!!!


I'm still waiting for Alma to bring me the water buffalo I asked her for.

22nd-Mar-2008 02:24 pm (UTC)
[info]turtleluna
OMG... this is incredible!!! Again, I will say, that if there are intelligent visitors amongst us from outer space on scouting missions, I believe they will infiltrate our lives in cat suits. What better way. Your cat has obviously not gotten the memo that one is supposed to play dumb and observe :)

I am in awe.
22nd-Mar-2008 04:08 pm (UTC)
[info]nancyblue
Just don't put it in the freezer :)
22nd-Mar-2008 06:45 pm (UTC)
[info]ferlonda
I second that! Turn it loose somewhere far away where there is plenty of non-mowed lawn where it can live a happy mole life eating worms and grubs- and get eaten up by someone else's cat. Or a fox or something.

Alma is pretty darn neat- alien or just a smarty-pants it doesn't much matter which. I say ask her to bring back a suitcase full of million dollar bills.
22nd-Mar-2008 08:23 pm (UTC)
[info]radven
We keep asking her for money. Cherie for some reason wants a water buffalo.

Based on her track record, I'm not sure either would surprise me now...

22nd-Mar-2008 08:22 pm (UTC)
[info]radven
After all the commotion last night, I was VERY groggy this morning. Through my sleepy haze, I could hear Cherie finding the mole, and then passing it on to Fritz as his gift from Alma.

I then heard Fritz say something about "don't eat the molesicle!"

That dragged me out of bed, and I stumbled out to ask Cherie where digger was. She said Fritz had stuck him in the freezer!

The poor thing was shivering like mad when I got him out. I used the heat of my laptop to warm him back to life.

It has been a blast playing with Digger today. Watching him scurry across the floor is SO cute!

And now he is about to get taken to the nearby park for a happy new life....
22nd-Mar-2008 10:21 pm (UTC)
[info]nancyblue
That moron did that AGAIN??? He is such an F****** tard.

Sorry, but I don't have much tolerance for animal cruelty. Thank you so much for pulling him out.
23rd-Mar-2008 12:57 am (UTC)
[info]serolynne
I was horrified when we got back to FL in December to discover he had yet another one in the freezer. It had been there for months apparently. So.. put the count at least at 3.

This one certainly isn't an attempt at mercy .. Alma has done no damage to it. It'll be released in the park tomorrow. Right now, it's dining on fresh cabbage and broccoli.

I don't know which is cuter.. watching the mole wiggle around or watching Chris be enamored with it.

Sell house, sell.
3rd-Apr-2008 03:44 pm (UTC)
Anonymous
I would have fallen in love with it, too.... It was cute!
23rd-Mar-2008 12:54 am (UTC)
[info]serolynne
Thankfully, the little guy had only been in the freezer long enough for Fritz to move on to his next objective for the morning - getting out of here for the weekend. Perhaps 5-10 minutes at most until he was back in warmth.
22nd-Mar-2008 07:40 pm (UTC)
[info]aerieofgrace
Alma is awesome!
22nd-Mar-2008 10:35 pm (UTC)
[info]inflectionpoint
Cricket says, Alma is an excellent Kitton!
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