Our Hero!

Many of you may not know we have a cat!! Since she usually runs and hides as soon as anyone new enters the house! But Ivy is our faithful kitten... well, maybe not so much a kitten anymore, she is 5 years old! Thursday night she saved us from a teeny tiny ginormous scary mouse! She must have caught the little fella in the basement and brought him up to show us... or just play with him. He was squeaking away as she would bat at him, then he'd run and she'd follow swatting away.. Ivy was having a grand old time! Now where was she when we had our other mouse incident when we were trying to point out Mr. Whiskers and she was completely oblivious! This little guy was more gray in color, so clearly not the same mouse as last January which was a golden brown.. and hopefully he is not the result of babies!! We have many traps down in the basement which have all gone untripped, and we have not noticed any signs (nests, droppings, etc.) of any furry friends.. so hopefully there are no others! In the end Rob trapped him under a Tupperware and slid some cardboard underneath then sent him for a ride into the night. He must've been stunned from Ivy's "love taps" because there was no way we could've caught the mouse last January... we tried endlessly he was fast!

Tonight she has resorted to chasing a moth... I'll take that over a mouse anyday although she has a tendancy of at least coming close to tipping over lamps when she chases bugs! She goes nuts! We all go to bed feeling very safe with Ivy standing gaurd by our feet! hehe!