Not A Fluffy Bunny Tail

I got a call from Genius on Sunday, while he was out running errands again. I fear I took up too much of his time telling him about a how-to-murder-your-wife show that I had seen the night before, that featured HILLMOMBA! I thought he might have heard about it, even though the actual events occurred the year before he was born. One of the murderers was death-penaltied right here at the local prison. Anyhoo... Genius had to cut our conversation short, as he was back home, and didn't particularly want to sit in the car talking, now that his errand was over. But luckily he had already told me a story about moving things into his new house.

It's a beautiful house! I don't know what you'd call it, but it was renovated in 2016, and has a basement, two full stories, and a gabled room on the third floor. The basement was used as a wood shop, which Genius plans to continue. There's a garage out back, and a nice back yard.

"We were walking along the driveway to the garage, and something ran out in front of us. It came from right down by my feet, and darted across the driveway and into the back yard. I said, 'Oh, look! A little bunny!' But as I watched it go across the yard and disappear into a hole, I realized that it was NOT a little bunny, but a big rat! I was horrified!"

"You need to call an exterminator. Or get a cat."

"I'm not going to spend hundreds on an exterminator. I'll trap it. The neighbors have FOUR cats, and they come into our yard all the time. Those lazy things should take care of that rat!"

"Are they outside cats? Don't you have ordinances there in the city?"

"I don't know. That's a gray area. They're in the house a lot. They're chipped, and have their shots. The neighbor said that they found them about 10 years ago, and to them to the pound. They were told, 'These are wild cats. We will put them down, or you can have them neutered and chipped and get their shots, and take them home.' They didn't have the heart to leave those cats to die, so they took them home. They're okay cats. They don't shun us, but they're aloof. They're cats."

Anyhoo... at least it's an outside rat!