About four weeks ago I posted a photo of our new arrival. Since then she’s settled in well, after a period of hiding on top of wardrobes and anywhere out of sight. We’ve renamed her Heidi, because of that. She knows her name and comes running when we call her.
She’s not really allowed on the furniture, but she’s tired out after a session in the garden hunting for mice and there plenty out there for her. She brought a dead one in this morning. I wish she wouldn’t bring them in, but she’s proud of her catch.
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She looks blissful!
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“she’s not really allowed on the furniture” 🙂 famous last words of many cat owners 🙂 I just wish I could sleep this peacefully 🙂
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She looks done in from chasing all the mice.
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She’s got really pretty coloring, especially the cream shade. And so sleepy from catching and bringing you presents. 🙂
Here’s my Saturday Snapshot. Have a wonderful weekend!
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What a great picture! They look so innocent when they’re asleep, even when you know they’re dreaming about the furniture they’re going to shred.
My Snapshot
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And I wanted to take a nap *before* I saw this!
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Awww, she is so sweet and quite content by the look of things! Oh but anything other than dead mice as treasure, you poor thing.
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Seems like she ought to get a crick in her neck in that position…cats are so funny the ways they choose to sleep!
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Cats certainly have the art of ‘the snuggle’ down pat … particularly snuggling with inanimate objects! Ha!~ She does look snookered out! What a great shot!
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SO sweet 🙂
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That really is the downside of cats hunting. 🙂 She looks very cute!
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It’s amazing the contortions cat can put themselves in and sleep like that. I’d have a stiff neck all day if I slept in that position. Heidi’s a sweetie, by the way!
Here’s my Snapshot.
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She’s very sweet! I’m not sure if how she’s settled on your sofa looks all that comfortable, but if anyone knows how to sleep and rest it’s a cat!
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I get such a kick out of the way cats can get into the oddest positions and sleep so contented. Heidi is beautiful, but obviously deadly to mice. Oh well, you won’t have live mice in the house, just the dead ones Heidi proudly presents to you.
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Adorable! I don’t think I’d be able to handle the dead mice, well really dead anything, in the house. But it’s so cute she wants to show them off to you 🙂
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She is so beautiful and looks very happy with her new hope — great capture
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Dead ones are better than live ones, Margaret! One of my cats brought a live field mouse in, dropped it at my feet and turned away at which point the mouse shot into my daughter’s shoe bag which was on the hall floor!
Fortunately for the mouse, I managed to tip the bag out of the door without the cat seeing, and it got away!
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Liz, since writing this post Heidi has caught more mice and brought them in including a tiny, tiny one that was still alive. It was hiding in a bag of my knitting and I managed to rescue it. I put it in the field at the back of us, but worried that she’d just catch it again. We found the remains of a bird in the house a couple of days ago – just lots of feathers, all the rest had gone! She’s definitely a killer cat.
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