It's Shrewsday!

I pronounce it Shroosday, as it is shrews we are being given, MawBroon. Not sure what the cats say.

Love the idea of Raterday, Shysal, And I have no doubt it might well follow here, Wormsday, not so likely.

Greyduster, I used to have the cousin of your mouse-in-gumboot-cat

Yesterday was Raterday for me! Twice! My garden backs onto farmland and Saffron obviously found a nest. The first rat, medium sized, was brought into the house and released then re-caught. I would have freaked out if it had gone behind the furniture!The second time I saw her heading down the garden towards the back door so managed to shut her out until she had finished it off.

We are currently the recipients of a fair few voles and shrews. A previous post outlines Minnie's retrieving skills , where the same deceased rodent was brought back several times , despite it being thrown out of a window at the back of the house.

Minnie would race downstairs, out through the open kitchen window, round to the back of the house, find dead rodent, then do the trip in reverse!

She is currently focusing on harvestmen, the insect type, not the farm labourers.

What I am wondering is that pronounced Shrowsday or Shroosday?

Let’s hope that ‘Wormsday’ does not follow ‘Shrewsday’!

Aren’t they priceless? 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!