Our cats have started a new tradition: On Fridays we get up in the morning and find a dead shrew, neatly laid on the indoor door-mat.
Said door-mat, which is in the hall at the front door, is one of the dark grey rubber- backed kind, so it is fairly difficult to see our present, when blurry eyed before first cup of coffee.
This Shrewsday's shrew lay to the right of the door-mat, last Shrewsday's precisely in the middle, but I haven't worked out which of our two cats lays his present in the middle of the mat and which to the right.
No, no it isn't the same shrew brought in a week apart, I have thanked cats properly for each then disposed of the creature suitably in the dustbin behind the cats' backs.
I had a cat who frequently brought mice into the garage and deposited them in one or other of my wellies! The first time I “discovered” one it frightened the life out of me - I thought it was a sock! After that, I checked by upturning the Wellington before I put it on. My father told me he used to have to do the same thing in the desert with his boots, but looking for scorpions, not mice!! Carry on patting them on the head, grandtante!
, where the same deceased rodent was brought back several times 
, despite it being thrown out of a window at the back of the house.Changing from a Manual car to an Automatic after driving manual for around 50 yrs
