Welcome to the mighty hunter

[pegkerr]

Our neighbor's cat, Greta, is sniffing around my office in a curious way. She is not panicked at her strange surroundings, being a basically friendly and level-headed cat who has known me on a casual basis for the past couple of years. She wanders away from the room for several minutes and then comes back and stares at me inquisitively, plainly thinking "No offense or anything, neighbor lady, but why am I here, anyway?" I am hoping that she will figure it out before long.

The mice are being very very very quiet.

I am not sneezing yet.

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[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

ah, the borrowed feline.

i loaned my (previous) cat to Jym once for that very purpose. she was a tremendously fat older animal who had exactly zero interest in vermin-menacing ... until the damn rat went for her food bowl. then, did a mighty struggle ensure.

score one for fat, pampered feline.
rat went away.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Greta is a good mouser, so I'm very hopeful. I will keep you posted.

Right now she's stroking my legs and purring.

I had forgotten how much I love talking to cats. My cat allergy really is a tragedy.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Allergies strike me as one of the greatest injustices in the world: it's not *right* that you shouldn't be able to be with cats.

You'd think I'd have gotten over expecting 'fair' from the universe, all things considered, but certain things still catch me in the raw. The only allergy I had as a child was bee stings, and since no one I knew got great pleasure out of beestings, even if they didn't all react as badly as I did, I never had the sense of my own body arbitrarily denying me pleasures. I'm glad you can have at least a temporary cat, and I hope that the sneezing remains hypothetical.

And I also hope that your (borrowed) cat has better mousing habits than our Bryton. Given that she has a mouser reputation, you're probably safe. I continue to think that our problem was that we had three pet mice, and even introduced them to her (under careful supervision) so that she had learned that mice were acceptable members of the family, though usually in enclosures. She would catch mice avidly, carry them to us, and drop them at our feet, unharmed: "Look! I brought you another pet! Hey, you let it run away!"

Better than having her stalk the domesticated critters, though. I still don't understand why on earth those mice thought they'd be safe moving into a house with three cats upstairs, and one cat and two snakes downstairs. Of course, they were correct, but still.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Well, if your sneezing enuses, that might be signal of enough cat-ness about to frighten the mice away. Here's hoping Greta gets her job done.

(Is one of the non-allergic members of your family going to brush her? That might help keep the allergens down to a dull enough roar to let her stay a bit longer.)