Gross Encounters

Warning! Disturbing and disgusting post. Not to be read by weak minds or stomachs.

It actually pains me to follow my previous post with this one, but I was so grossed out tonight that I just had to get it out of head.

While Emma was working on falling asleep upstairs, I was working on trimming my body on the Wii Fit. Lovely thing the Wii.

This is of course irrelevant to what happened next, but just to set the scene of how great the mood was all around.

I finished my exercise and as I was choosing my next one, I heard this "squishing" sound coming from the front entrance. First my brain wasn't registering the sound as an odd sound. Only after more "squishing" did I stop what I was doing and went to investigate.

On the third step from the bottom was Grace feasting on a mouse she'd caught. Now Grace is an excellent mouse hunter with 100% accuracy when catching mice. I'm no whimp when it comes to mice in a house. I grew up with mousetraps and cats leaving "presents" on the front steps. They don't bother me at all. Hearing them run around in the walls of this old house is actually rather comforting. It's a sound from childhood.

However, this was not comforting. This was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. Grace has never caught a mouse and eaten it before! She's brought them to me while I'm sleeping or played with them until they die and then leaves them because she doesn't know what she's suppose to do with it.

There were blood splatters on the stairs, blood spots on the tiles...and half of the mouse was already gone. The head part! Oh lord. I'm so grossed out.

That's not really the worst part. When I tried to get her to drop it, she ran away. Up the stairs, in to my bedroom and under the dresser. Simon ran after her and I finally got her to drop it.

Then I spent about half a bottle of cleaner sterilizing the stairs and every other place Grace had been with the half eaten mouse. Poor little thing. But he clearly should not have entered this house. There's not two cats here, what was he thinking! I swear Grace was showing off to Cedar. Look at me, I am so cool, I can eat a whole mouse! Wow Auntie Grace, you are so crazy! I wanna be just like you when I grow up.

GROSS. Just sayin.