Noooo..not again!

Just when I thought it was safe to enter the cats sleeping area  first thing in the morning without first checking for rats dead, half dead or (shudder) alive:

    

    "A Present from a loving admirer"

it's been a while but here we go again, only this time Flea has been  very, very politically incorrect.....juvenile possums are "barley" and what's more are hardly fair game for our rat catcher extraordinaire.

Falls prevention and pets

I might be on "pre-disengagement" leave (see side bar) but I'm still a Physio and still engaged with aged care concepts as they apply to my previous patients and also (perhaps) increasingly to myself .  So I was interested , as the slave of 2 cats  to read an article on the Perils of Pet Ownership in the Age today.

My two owners are Flea... please note a) the WTF look and  b) the cushion, an Xmas present to me but  immediately commandeered by him

and Pippi

The on line version of the article omits the bit I wanted to refer to so I sourced it here  and the case I especially relate to in view of my many, many rat stories is the poor woman  who ended up with a fractured pelvis running (and falling) out the front door as her cat brought a live snake in through the side door.  Below is what the two cats would like to bring in through our side door, only I've now got into the habit of locking the cat door overnight.

Pippi's offering.. she's been carting Ernie around for a couple of years now

and Flea's....yeetch

...I cleaned the  back doorstep after taking the pix(!)..could have photo-shopped the dirt away..but hey!