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May 14, '08 12:12 PM
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I feed him. I really do.

Not the cheap stuff either... he's been raised on Iams, and he eats it like a pig. Treats? Yes, he gets those too - although he's not a big snacker.

Why then, does my beast of an animal insist on bringing me home - not one, not TWO, but three baby bunnies?

Bing greeted me today with this little fella, who I'm guessing is Cottontail to the Flopsy and Mopsy he brought yesterday. One of them he ate, the other I rescued but I don't know if he made it home (they hop fast). This little one was already wounded and not moving much. Bing finished him off after I came in the house. RIP Cottontail.

It's not unusual for him to bring treats home. Once I stepped on a frog. He leaves mice and mice parts around from time to time, and the occasional chipmunk. He's caught doves and blue jays, and a mole.

He hunts, I get it. It's instinct. Whatever.

But bunnies??
Baby bunnies???

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brandedfel wrote on May 14

Bing is a cat.

Nuff said.

shenry61 wrote on May 14

You have been reading the "Warriors" series to him, haven't you? I knew it.

brandedfel wrote on May 14

Oh, and get rid of those little purple flowers. I bet the bunnies come around just for those.

shenry61 wrote on May 14

Time to buy Bing some kitty BBQ sauce and maybe a little gas grill with some grill utensils. Maybe an apron with "Kiss The Kitty Cook" on it would also be in order.

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

The violets have been poisoned and are dying. Bing found a nest in the woods next to my house.

Man, I should probably hide the kid when it's born huh?

chrisceb wrote on May 14

BAD KITTY!!! BAD BAD KITTY! Are the treats bunny shaped? maybe he's getting confused.

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

(sigh) they're not even bunny FLAVORED. Although one of his catnip toys looks mysteriously like Cottontail.

chopsake wrote on May 14

Hmmm. My thoughts go back to our discussion of cats being outside. *Wags finger*

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

*shamefully accepting wag*

But... really. Bing is incontainable. Is that a word?
He'd murder me in my sleep if I didn't let him out. Then he'd kill Matt just so he could attend another funeral. Wait. Wrong blog.

brandedfel wrote on May 14

theoriginalgirly said

Man, I should probably hide the kid when it's born huh?

You are aware that a cat will sit on the chest of the sleeping newborn and suck out his or her soul, aren't you? It's a well known fact.

When children are born in Minnesota, cats are decimated for miles around the newborn's residence.

;)

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

I don't know about soul sucking - but I can see Bing trying to drag it around by the scruff of it's neck. Uh.. not in a mommy way either.

therealbuttercup wrote on May 14

My dog killed some baby bunnies. I think it was because they sounded like his squeak toy and he really just wanted to play with them. It took me 10 minutes of yelling "DROP IT!!!" while holding the nape of his neck before I got him to release the one that was sticking out of his mouth (all I saw were back feet....*shudder*).

Nature blows. WHY was the mama bunny so dumb to have her babies in the dog pen? Eesh. Now they live under my deck. I'll have to get a video of the dog sniffing and snorting through the cracks when there's one under there. It's quite funny.

BAD BAD Bing!!!

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

Nature does, indeed, blow.

shenry61 wrote on May 14

I'm not going to talk about the time that Syd, our Welsh Terrier, killed 8 baby bunnies in their nest in our backyard. Or I won't talk about the time I ran over the nest of baby bunnies while mowing our front lawn. Or.....

brandedfel wrote on May 14

Cats are bastards. We all know this. They may be cute and cuddly, and sweet and everything, but only on their terms. You can train them not to do something you don't want them to do, and they know better to just do it when you're not there.

I'm sure the kitties will be fine around the wee one... but I wouldn't take your eye off of them either. Sneaky bastards.

chopsake wrote on May 14

Yeah Nature sucks...and blows.
So maybe Bing would answer the previous blog's question right? He would kill you, Matt and his brother just to see another bunny.

shenry61 wrote on May 14

It was kind of cool watching Syd do it, by the way. He kept jumping straight up in the air and coming down on top of the nest. I saw him do it twice while watching him from the other side of the yard before I realized what he was doing.

shenry61 wrote on May 14

Our cat was fine around Nate when he was an infant.

chopsake wrote on May 14

Seriously though, be careful with him around the kidlet when it is time. It's not so much when they are newborns, but when they start to crawl and grab. Esp if Bing is such a headstrong and independent lad. It only takes one time...

squisha wrote on May 14

My cats prefer to watch the mice cross the floor and nibble on their Iams cat food. And that, my friend, is a true story. Indoor cats they are...

shenry61 wrote on May 14

I loved watching our cat and our terrier team up to trap a mouse in the corner of our kitchen one time. They got it cornered and then they laid down in front of it to watch it. I grabbed a jar, rescued the mouse, and took it a mile away to a field to let it go.

brandedfel wrote on May 14

I think Bing needs to read this blog.

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

Bing has heard all this and more from me in the last 2 days. He's like... whatevah beeotch.

brandedfel wrote on May 14

theoriginalgirly said

whatevah beeotch.

See?

Bastard.

mskelie wrote on May 14

I have a mouse in my house. Can you bring Bing by. I won't scold him for tearing it limb from limb or anything.

And I'll feed him steak if she so chooses.

And I'll let him rub his head on me.

Cause we lurve kitties. (Emma said that not me)

aslowread wrote on May 14

be grateful you dont live next door to a cattle rancher or sheep farmer..imgaine the things he would bring home...?

brandedfel wrote on May 14

I'm going to eat lunch and watch the rest of Heroes ".07%".

Keep the faith.

samadri wrote on May 14

LMBO Slow Read!

So, Girly...did you post the picture of the baby bunny just to torture us?

aslowread wrote on May 14

he also knows about the rabbits lucky foot thingy..maybe?

masadablog wrote on May 14

Bunnies... aren't they God's original mid-morning snack? They uhm... breed like rabbits. They are designed by nature to overpopulate and die in larger than expected numbers. They are like self-maintaining pork chops that keep themselves fresh without a refrigerator.

And, yes, they are pretty cute.

You could move to a country without small mammals (like New Zealand). No chipmunks, squirrels, etc. I've only seen bunnies out in the country. But baring a move to a new ecology... Bing is a cat. He's living a good cat life. Bunnies in the wild don't have much to look forward to anyway... a lifetime of bitter survival and cat evasion coupled with disease risks and the arch enemy, Radial Tires. At least the brief interaction with the cat gave it a chance at survival... and the next batch of bunnies will be faster and smarter. They also breed faster than Bing.

Hell... pretty soon bunnies might develop opposable thumbs and you'll find them re-arranging your deck chairs and sneaking the cordless phone outside to crank call Animal Control to deal with a "wild cat".

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wbtak wrote on May 14

Bing is looking for the perfect bunny...

samadri wrote on May 14

Little bunny Foo Foo hopping through the forest...picking up the field mice and bopping them on the head...

To all of you who just got that stuck in your head? You're welcome.

jadedtales wrote on May 14

Dude. I love you, Masada.

*snork*

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

jadedtales said

Dude. I love you, Masada.

*snork*

What she said.

Yes, again. I can't help it.

jadedtales wrote on May 14

You think if we lived close together, some kind of chaos vortex would establish itself nearby, thus confusing Bing's Baby Bunny Hunting Instinct and creating *gasp* some semblance of "Right" within the world?

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

Try it!! What harm can it do??

jadedtales wrote on May 14

I keep dropping hints. Jase keeps looking at me like I'm insane.

This is probably due to me saying "I swear by whatever deity you consider holy that if you move me to a snowy, wintery, icy driving state I may very well remove your eyelids while you sleep."

I politely informed him that I rescind my former statement.

*nods*

samadri wrote on May 14

Hm. Eyelid removely during slumber. Sounds intriguing.

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

Just shoot him with botox. His eyes will never blink again.

Oh, but go easy - it's incredibly toxic. At least according to wiki.

jadedtales wrote on May 14

Where's the fun in using traditional threats, ya know?

Gotta keep loved ones on their toes. *rolls eyes at self*

Really, I just have this overwhelming fear of driving on snowy/icy roads.

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 14

Ah... it's nothin. In all my years, the worst I've done is lose a hubcap. Down a storm drain.

Plus - you could always do what ALL New Englanders do... Winter in the Caymans.

HA. No really, we do.

jadedtales wrote on May 14

*blinks*

I'm so there. We can bring Bing and he can hunt little leeezards.

jansplayground wrote on May 14

Well fed cats are better hunters than non fed cats.

harmaceutical wrote on May 14

I saw a t-shirt I really wanted to buy that said "Kitten Thinks of Nothing But Murder All Day Long", but they didn't have my size... truer words never spoken...

samadri wrote on May 14

Ok, lizards are off limits. Bunny - pfeh. I'm over it. (Well, unless I look at the picture again). But lizards? Completely not ok. I love lizards.

littleronnie wrote on May 14

Just remember...cats are like baby lions....LOL. I forget who told me that but it always seems to ring true somewhere. Our poor cat never gets to go outside but he does at least catch mice in the house.

littleronnie wrote on May 14

Oh and I love your photo....too cute.

befuddledbride wrote on May 14

My cat Gypsy would be a Bing if she was aloud out of the house. Right now she just hunts for dental floss. (I have to hide it. She will go from garbage can to garbage can trying to find it.

I had a German Shepherd when I was a kid that used to kill snakes. (Plus anything else that enter our yard that wasn't part of his pack.) He would literally grab it by its tail and snap it. Then he'd run over and put his head down to see if its heart was beating. Coolest thing I ever saw. My mom loved that dog just for that trait alone. She had a phobia of snakes.

chrisceb wrote on May 14

samadri said

To all of you who just got that stuck in your head? You're welcome.

Damn you.

chrisceb wrote on May 14

jadedtales said

This is probably due to me saying "I swear by whatever deity you consider holy that if you move me to a snowy, wintery, icy driving state I may very well remove your eyelids while you sleep

Oh. Um huh...I see how it is. Ya'll call ME psycho...and she says something like this. Yeah...all need to be afraid.

chrisceb wrote on May 14

samadri said

I love lizards.

When my daugther was little, she couldn't say her "L's"...so she would call the lizards around our place wizards. It was so dern cute!

samadri wrote on May 14

MUAH!

samadri wrote on May 14

befuddledbride said

This just gave me Wednesday's QaD!

brandedfel wrote on May 14

The ceiling cat is watching you.

samadri wrote on May 14

No, Brandon. The ceiling cat is watching YOU.

jadedtales wrote on May 14

Dude, don't knock Ceiling Cat.

jadedtales wrote on May 14

Sandy - dig lizards? Move to Southwest Florida. They're EVERYWHERE. At least they used to be. Maybe mankind found a way to get rid of 'em.

The babies were cute, the bigger ones I could do without.

Our cats used to gnaw the legs off and play with them. Glack. BAD KITTEH!

samadri wrote on May 14

I lived in Florida for a little bit as a teen, and believe me, the lizards everywhere couldn't have made me happier.

PS>J-in-J, who is Ceiling Cat to you?

ladymindy wrote on May 14

mine brought home a baby bunny last week. I congratulated him, and I cried.

jadedtales wrote on May 14

http://ceiling-cat.com/ceiling_cat.jpg

Pick a caption, any caption.

samadri wrote on May 14

LMFAO!!!!

Ok, now that I'm done laughing.

Ask Brandon what it means in OUR house to have a ceiling cat. Er...ceiling FAN cat. Go ahead Brandon. Tomorrow is TCT.

jadedtales wrote on May 14

Oh crap! It's Thursday here!

jadedtales wrote on May 14

I have a confession inspired by this blog actually... *meanders off*

mcolour wrote on May 14

I'll admit, I am getting tired of shoveling up dead parts.
And I am still haunted by the baby bunny from 2 yrs ago that I had to put out of its misery with a giant rock. Haunted isn't strong enough word.

samadri wrote on May 14

oof. just, oof.

masadablog wrote on May 14

I used to have a cat that got ahold of a rabbit under my deck. The rabbit was screaming, but the crawl space under was not accessible and I couldn't chase the cat out. I eventually had to get a power drill and pull up deck boards to rescue the screaming bunny and ultimately kill it as it's spine was broken.

But these are the trade offs of sharing living space with active predators.

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 15

Bing is on to bunny 4. How many come in a nest???

jadedtales wrote on May 15

A bazillion? Jase is assuming about six-eight.

theoriginalgirly wrote on May 15

Maybe tomorrow'll be the last day of this then. (Sigh).

jadedtales wrote on May 15

I hope so! Arrrgh. Bing is too good at his job lately.

mcolour wrote on May 16

Atleast the bodies disappeared before I got home tonight. I was grabbing a shovel to give them a proper burial, instead of just throwing the bodies into the brush pile.

jadedtales wrote on May 16

Uuuugh. I have such issues with it. Even the rats my cat used to bring home made me kinda sad.

samadri wrote on May 16

mcolour said

Atleast the bodies disappeared before I got home tonight. I was grabbing a shovel to give them a proper burial, instead of just throwing the bodies into the brush pile.

I say you just flick them at the neighbors.

jadedtales wrote on May 16

Flick dead baby bunnies?

samadri wrote on May 16

I know. Macabre. Did I spell that right? I am so disgustingly morbid at times, that when my cat had kittens in my closet drawer in college, and we found one of them born dead, I actually suggested a game of hacky sack.

samadri wrote on May 16

jadedtales said

Flick dead baby bunnies?

Oops, let me clarify...baby bunny PARTS. Not the bunnies.

jadedtales wrote on May 16

yes. that's such a big difference. *pbbbt*

samadri wrote on May 16

I know. I'm so tired right now.

jadedtales wrote on May 16

Sleep is good. It cures that whole "tired" thing most of the time.

samadri wrote on May 16

bah

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