RODENT ALERT!!!

We have rodents in the house. I’m a cat…It’s my job to scare them, or alternatively to chase them down and eat them. Not so much apparently.

I was sleeping under the bed in the peep’s room last night ‘cause it’s the actual coolest place in the house and also ‘cause its my secret place and it was nighttime. Anyway I felt this gentle tickle on my nose. I opened my right eye just a crack…I couldn’t see anything out that eye, so I opened my left eye. Nope, nothing there. So I drifted off to sleep again…, into the coolest dream about being outside and finding cat sushi actually does grow on trees – but that’s beside the point. What a great dream though.

Then, I felt it again, tickle, tickle tickle…WhooshBAAM, I squeezed my eyes tightly shut and sneezed so hard I thought my ears had blown off. The noise musta scared off whatever it was because when I could finally open my eyes again; there still wasn’t anything there except me and an old rolly ball thing under the bed.

How odd, I thought. Is this a new game the peep is playing with me? What a very peculiar time to start playing games. It’s still completely dark outside and my tummy tells me I gotta be quiet for at least another 2 hours before I’m allowed to wake the peeps up.

I tried to go back to sleep again but every time I drifted off something tickled my nose and eyes and I’d wake up again. Finally I decided I’d have to catch whatever it was in the act if I was going to get any zzz’s at all. So I pretended to be asleep and rolled myself up into a grey (fat) ball with my nose covered by my front paws. I kept both eyes open a tiny bit. Then, there it was. A little grey fluffy furry thing scampering around under the bed. Every time I got close to it, I sneezed and it ran away… This went on for quite a while and the lady peep was whispering “Ed, what’s wrong, do you have a cold?”

Finally she put me outside the door (again) and I had to go sleep in my cat tree. This morning she was looking under the bed for her running socks and I heard her chuckling to herself. “Oh Eddy”, she said, “It looks like you were being attacked by DUST BUNNIES in the night and you must be allergic to them.”

She said the dust bunnies were making me sneeze all night long. So she took the broom and chased them all away this morning. I like it when she looks after me. All cats, beware of dust bunnies. They might be small, but they are just like regular rabbits. If you have two, you have a thousand (that’s what the peep said anyway).