No photos with this blog – you’ll see why!

I came down this morning and opened the back door to let the cats out. Sukie came rushing into the kitchen, choking her little heart out. After soothing her and rubbing under her neck to ease it, I gave her a saucer of milk and then went out into their room – well I didn’t go right in as I was faced with quite a sight! Cat biscuits all over the floor, piles of sick everywhere (including in a food bowl) and bits of something I couldn’t make out strewn around.

On closer examination I realised it was the remains – and I mean remains – of a creature. I felt sick so decided to close the door on it all until I had something to line my stomach!

When I felt able to, I opened the door again and decided that I should start somewhere. I laid kitchen roll over the various patches of sick and reached for our wonder sweeper to collect all the biscuits up….. I felt really sick now! Right on the top was a blob of what looked like strawberry jam. I immediately put that down and was faced with a decision. What should I tackle first? I decided that maybe the bits of ‘Whatever’ should be the first thing. The quicker they were gone, the better!

As I got close I realised it had been a bird as there was a single tuft of about four feathers laying close to a lump (about an inch square) of flesh and then some smaller pieces. It was doing my stomach no good I can tell you! I quickly gathered it up into kitchen roll, after dropping it a few times, and rushed it out into the bin. I then did the really brave bit of getting rid of the strawberry jam :O(

Now the sick….. That wasn’t too bad. Then I got rid of all the biscuits and sprayed the floor with ‘Vanish’ and cleaned everything up along with cleaning the sweeper with anti-bacterial cleaner – All done :O)

We had a pile of sheets ready for the washing machine and I decided to get that done. I picked one sheet up and then had a horrible thought…… I shook it and it was fine :O) I picked the next one up, shook it, fine. Then the third one, which had been underneath the other two…. you’ve guessed….. out rolled a tiny little birds head! I very quickly got rid of it, trying not to think of what I had in my hand :O(

I only hope I don’t find any more surprises .

It wasn’t hard to guess why Sukie had been choking. Mitzi must have brought it through the cat flap and then had a free for all chasing it around the room with Sukie. Poor little thing. Worse thing is Sukie now has a taste for birds so will obviously follow Mitzi in that horrid habit :O( None of our cats have done that before, and now we have two hunters!

The cat flap is staying firmly closed now and they will have to ask to come in.

Stumble it!