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Cats, Bats, Bedrooms and Broomsticks
Feb. 14th, 2020 09:21 pm
The integration of Kuro-kun and the Void-lets is going well. Kuro washed one of them on the head today while they were both sitting in the sun. And just now Kuro and Neko were sitting glued basically nose to nose as they wished to inform us that the humane mouse trap in the kitchen drawer had in fact caught a mouse. Well spotted, cats!
There is one primary bone of contention remaining, and that is Kuro-kun's tail. Mr Kuro is a long-haired cat, in possession of a super-floofy tail which sometimes proves irresistible to voids. Neko in particular has a bad habit of playing with the world's most perfect tail, which occasionally gets him hissed at. Other than that deeply personal imposition, Kuro-kun is very tolerant of the interlopers, and he doesn't even mind when they stick their heads in his food bowl.
A sleepy void.
Mice have not been the only uninvited mammals in our house in the past 24 hours. Last night, Kuro-kun rather excitedly notified us at 5am that there was a bat flying around our bedroom - one of the perils of living in the woods and having a chimney. It's only the second time it's happened in thirteen years, but still....
So we evicted Kuro, closed the doors into the bathroom and the hallway, and opened the door onto the balcony in the hope our visitor might leave voluntarily. You would think a bat in an illuminated bedroom would take the exit into the night, but apparently not. Round and around it flew, up near the ceiling. So we turned off the light, thinking that might be confusing it.
That just made the bat land. Up on the wall in the highest point of the roof. At first we tried throwing socks at it, but even though we damn near hit it, it stayed put. Which is where the broomstick came in.
Even being gently poked at by a broomstick, the bat was very reluctant to let go of the wall. Nor would it grab hold of the broomstick instead. After several minutes of being prodded, it did eventually take flight again, and I waved a towel over my head to try and steer it towards the open door. Round and round it flew again, showing no signs of leaving, until eventually it flew into the towel I was waving, and I was able to wrap it up carefully while it chittered very angrily, and then I took it out onto the balcony and released it.
By that time, I was wide awake with cold feet, and I never did go back to sleep before I had to get up for work...
Neither of us can consistently tell the voids apart, even two weeks later. Every time we think we've got it nailed, they prove us wrong again. Kuro's probably much better at it than us stupid humans are!
Also, it was ridiculously hard for us to watch TV this evening, when there was a void-let on the other sofa continuously throwing himself head-over-heels chasing his own tail. I don't think there's much brain in that one....
There is one primary bone of contention remaining, and that is Kuro-kun's tail. Mr Kuro is a long-haired cat, in possession of a super-floofy tail which sometimes proves irresistible to voids. Neko in particular has a bad habit of playing with the world's most perfect tail, which occasionally gets him hissed at. Other than that deeply personal imposition, Kuro-kun is very tolerant of the interlopers, and he doesn't even mind when they stick their heads in his food bowl.
A sleepy void.
Mice have not been the only uninvited mammals in our house in the past 24 hours. Last night, Kuro-kun rather excitedly notified us at 5am that there was a bat flying around our bedroom - one of the perils of living in the woods and having a chimney. It's only the second time it's happened in thirteen years, but still....
So we evicted Kuro, closed the doors into the bathroom and the hallway, and opened the door onto the balcony in the hope our visitor might leave voluntarily. You would think a bat in an illuminated bedroom would take the exit into the night, but apparently not. Round and around it flew, up near the ceiling. So we turned off the light, thinking that might be confusing it.
That just made the bat land. Up on the wall in the highest point of the roof. At first we tried throwing socks at it, but even though we damn near hit it, it stayed put. Which is where the broomstick came in.
Even being gently poked at by a broomstick, the bat was very reluctant to let go of the wall. Nor would it grab hold of the broomstick instead. After several minutes of being prodded, it did eventually take flight again, and I waved a towel over my head to try and steer it towards the open door. Round and round it flew again, showing no signs of leaving, until eventually it flew into the towel I was waving, and I was able to wrap it up carefully while it chittered very angrily, and then I took it out onto the balcony and released it.
By that time, I was wide awake with cold feet, and I never did go back to sleep before I had to get up for work...
Neither of us can consistently tell the voids apart, even two weeks later. Every time we think we've got it nailed, they prove us wrong again. Kuro's probably much better at it than us stupid humans are!
Also, it was ridiculously hard for us to watch TV this evening, when there was a void-let on the other sofa continuously throwing himself head-over-heels chasing his own tail. I don't think there's much brain in that one....
