Monday, October 18, 2010

Maddeningly Unhelpful Monday--Pest Control

On my drive home the other night, I turned onto my street and saw a pair of glowing yellow eyes. As I got closer I realized they were attached to a rather large raccoon. Ah, country living, I thought. At the end of the street, I pulled into my driveway. As my headlights cut across the grass, a pair of rabbits ran through the light. How cute, I thought. Finally (and I'm not exaggerating, all three of these things happened in one night) I opened the garage and as I parked the car, a rat scampered out from behind some boxes. So not cool. This is when my husband and I decided we needed an outdoor cat. Preferably a big, ugly one who was on at least his seventh life and was appropriately named Bruiser or Killer.

Well, we couldn't find one of those. So we settled for these guys. They are going through the training program now (being pestered by a three year old). But I have high hopes that they will become the future pest control:

HUNTER:


SCOUT:

10 comments:

  1. Cuteness! The neighbors across the street have a big ugly cat that patrols our backyard for some strange reason. I call him Scarface. It doesn't like people at all, but, it keeps the mice away!!

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  2. Adorable, my daughter would love to have that cat and luckily I live where there are no rats.

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  3. Better watch out! Those are ferocious beasts! ;) If you can't take the heat, I'll take them off your hands for you. I'm a trained 'cat-killer' handler. I have two of them, myself. Of course, the only thing they manage to end up killing is plastic milk bottle rings. =P

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  4. How sweet! Scout reminds of our cat when he was so little. Too cute to be killers, though. Good luck with that! ;-)

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  5. Awe so cute! How can you put them outside? Our outside cats were great rat control on our property. It always creeped me out a bit to see them walking across the back acre with a big old rat in their mouth though.

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  6. I think the first thing I would do is remove my family then burn my house down. I hate mice. I'm sure rats are worse. However, arson is probably not the best option and so I think the cats are a good second-choice.

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  7. I can't believe it. Kasie has animals with fur. What will the turtles think?

    I want to play with them. awww

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