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Rabbit, rabbit

// October 19th, 2006 // Personal

Picture the scene:

01:30am – Robert is tucked up in bed slipping gently into peaceful slumber
01:31am – Robert is snapped into some semblance of wakefulness by his mother banging into the bedroom
01:32am – it becomes apparent that the cause of dear mum’s distress is the cat, lurking in the corner of my parent’s room looking very pleased with himself and making the small, back of the throat noises that any cat owner will recognise as meaning “look what I brought you”
01:33am – Having adjusted to his new state of consciousness, Robert follows the cat’s gaze and discerns a pretty freaking huge furry shape under the radiator. The cat has somehow managed to get a flaming rabbit through the cat flap!!!
01:34am – erm … don’t quite know what to do here. The bunny is unharmed (the cat has never quite got the hang of the whole hunter killer m.o. – hunt yes … kill what?) but I’m dammed if I’m going to pick the thing up. Resort to removing the cat from the vicinity and poking the bunny lightly with a shoe in an effort to persuade it to vacate the premises
01:35am – rabbit is immune to shoe pokage – still under radiator
01:36am – Dad, awakened by the commotion, arrives on the scene and has enough sense to grab a set of gardening gloves, pick up the bunny (which now decides to remember what its legs are for and starts kicking up a stink) and removes it from the house.
01:37am – everyone goes back to bed

I still can’t work out how in the name of all that is holy did the cat get a fully grown, wild rabbit to go anywhere with it? I pictured him setting up a sign, Wile Coyote style – Rabbit Food This way >>> and sniggering behind the cat flap.

But the highlight of last night’s drama was mum’s sleepy statement as we identified the cause of the cat’s joy. She looked at the lump under the rad, looked at me and said, “That’s not a mouse is it …”

Well DUH!