Not sure who was more frightened .....
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catalyst2..... me or the cat!
The long of it is that we have two rabbits who, in the normal bunny way, adore digging holes. I have long since given up having a nice garden as they have free-run of the garden during daylight hours. At night we put them in a large hutch - 2m wide x 2m deep x 1 m high. Then I go around the garden and fill in their holes. Most of their holes are very shallow, half-hearted efforts but some are bigger. Today they had dug a very big one in the corner of the garden right next to the fence. The entrance alone was about 2 metres long and about half a metre deep. There was a bit completely underground (about half a meter) and then it resurfaced at 90 degrees to the original entrance with another long entrance. They had moved an enormous amount of soil in a short time.
After we put them both into the hutch, I started to fill one end of this hole fairly loosely and then went around to the other end. This end had much more dirt so I was going to throw the dirt as far into the tunnel as I could and then stamp it in tightly. I threw the first shovelful in and then a very dirty sandy cat exploded out of the tunnel and ran straight at me. I am not sure who was more surprised - the cat who had been sleeping in the tunnel (it was a warm day today) or me, attacked by The Monster Zombie Cat From Hell (actually it was Tigger from next door) but how was I to know that? It frightened so many shades of blue out of me that I had to sit down to recover!
See, GARDENING IS EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL!
The long of it is that we have two rabbits who, in the normal bunny way, adore digging holes. I have long since given up having a nice garden as they have free-run of the garden during daylight hours. At night we put them in a large hutch - 2m wide x 2m deep x 1 m high. Then I go around the garden and fill in their holes. Most of their holes are very shallow, half-hearted efforts but some are bigger. Today they had dug a very big one in the corner of the garden right next to the fence. The entrance alone was about 2 metres long and about half a metre deep. There was a bit completely underground (about half a meter) and then it resurfaced at 90 degrees to the original entrance with another long entrance. They had moved an enormous amount of soil in a short time.
After we put them both into the hutch, I started to fill one end of this hole fairly loosely and then went around to the other end. This end had much more dirt so I was going to throw the dirt as far into the tunnel as I could and then stamp it in tightly. I threw the first shovelful in and then a very dirty sandy cat exploded out of the tunnel and ran straight at me. I am not sure who was more surprised - the cat who had been sleeping in the tunnel (it was a warm day today) or me, attacked by The Monster Zombie Cat From Hell (actually it was Tigger from next door) but how was I to know that? It frightened so many shades of blue out of me that I had to sit down to recover!
See, GARDENING IS EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL!
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Date: 2007-08-13 09:35 am (UTC)Years ago, my brother, who is not fond of cats, was watching a National Geographic special about tigers hunting prey while my sister-in-law was away. He went to bed and was dreaming about a tiger stalking him. He woke up and sitting on the pillow next to him was a large orange tabby cat. (They don't have a cat!) He said he was out in the living room before his feet hit the floor! :D It turned out that a neighbour's cat had come in the basement window!
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