awww! who knew dead mole babies were so cute ( altho im sure there much cuter alive hah)

Yeah...since I posted this she brought home another. We have a little baby mole graveyard. I feel like I'm housing a serial killer.

Jess, I'm concerned. You need to move back into the city ASAP.

My kitty surprised me be becoming quite an effective mouser for an indoor cat.

He's gotten 5 mice, which makes him an ace mouser.

LOL. I'm concerned too. The country air has made me a little odd these days.

I think that's just a standard-issue mouse. Moles, IIRC, don't have tails.

Your cat looks unnervingly like my old cat, which lives somewhere in Long Island.

Zuzu--but it had that long weird snout and squinty eye thing going on...

Perhaps you're right. Then she isn't as cool a cat as I thought. ;)

I'm going with the standard-issue mouse too. But the mouse is not as lovely as your cat.

I believe the confusion is explained by this being a field mouse or a tit-mouse, rather than the kind of mice that inhabit NYC - why, the building I grew up in had roaches bigger'n' that lil' guy!

Your kitty looks very content :-)

At least your cat kills them! Mine's good at catching them, but can't figure out how to kill them. So he just runs around the house with them in his mouth, ALIVE, and growls at anyone who tries to take his "prize" away.

Hey, at least your cat kills them! We used to have a cat that caught 'em, brought 'em in, and then let 'em go for me to catch.

By the way, the victim looks more like a shrew than a mouse.

What a cute dead mouse! Neidra looks very satisfied.

You're lucky my last two cats brought home the much more pitiable birds.

Booda dragging a still live and fluttering sparrow, which died two days later despite my ministrations (although a vet had advised me that once they've been mouthed by a cat, it's near impossible to save 'em.)

And once he woke me at 3 am to his triumph of a big ol' headless rat. And expected a pet on his possibly bubonic plague riddled head.

No cat door in my new place, so Felix dumps the entire dead pidgeon (or beautiful dove) on the doormat, usually with only a red circle eaten out of them (the organs?)

Sigh.

i vote small mouse.

my barn cats find the mice amusing things to watch. be appreciative that the cat kills them rather than watches them chew up everything expensive you own.

Could be a vole. Bit hard, need to see more.

Hate cats, they desroy our wildlife. The only good cat ... is a dead cat.

If your cat is now a country cat (and eating wildlife,) you may want to test periodically for toxoplasmosis.

I made the discovery one morning that my indoor cat had been practising her hunting skills on the large spiders we get in Sydney in summer called 'huntsmen'. One was scattered from the front door of our apartment, down the corridor to the lounge. She was quite pleased with her efforts I think!

The Italian cleanliness

In order to carry out their tasks, the Heads of Quarter and Heads of Buildings had suitably furnished premises in the building which were used as office and lodging; storekeepers and housekeepers had premises as stores at their disposal whilst the room personnel made use of dressing-rooms situated in the Services Quarter where they changed into uniform, thereafter being posted to the various buildings in accordance with a pre-arranged plan of allocation.

The Accommodation Section attended to the organisation of the Villa Glori and Pratoni del Vivaro sectors for arrangements in connection with the stabling of horses entered for the equestrian events and lodging of the personnel in charge of the horses.

The Villa Glori complex in Italy, which comprised seven buildings, having been suitably furnished, was able to accommodate some 100 to 150 grooms as well as making use of other premises as offices, stores and forage stores.

The organisation of displacements was attended to by the Displacements Section which consisted of military personnel and comprised: a Head of Displacements, a Head of Quarter, a veterinary officer, a warrant-officer farrier, a warrant-officer storekeeper and 4 soldiers.

The Pratoni del Vivaro complex, where the "Dressage" and "Endurance" tests of the Equestrian Event were held, consisted of six groups of buildings set up especially for the purpose. In two of these, 120 beds were available as well as offices, stores, saddle store and other accommodation services. The other four were used as stables with a capacity of some 120 horses.

Special arrangements made with local enterprises made it possible for this displacement to be autonomous as regards food for the personnel (the displacement staff, grooms and athletes participating in the competitions), forage for the horses, the removal of horse dung from the stables and the repair of saddles.

Apart from managing the stock of material for furnishing the buildings and offices, the Accommodation Sector carried out other tasks which, although accessory, called for arrangements and measures of a certain importance in view of the considerable amount of consequent work. This was mainly composed of services for the cleaning of bed linen and towels and the replenishing of consumable materials.

For the entire period of functioning of the Olympic Village a total of 60,140 sheets, 23,609 pillow-cases and 8,111 bedspreads were changed for some 7,000 beds in all.

The replenishing of consumable materials in the lodgings i.e. toilet paper, soap, toothpaste and other toilet products was effected by the Administration Section at such times as to pass unnoticed by the guests.

During the entire period of functioning of the Olympic Village the following quantities were distributed in the buildings: 20,000 rolls of toilet paper, 11,520 tins of shoe whitener, 5,000 tablets of soap, 5,000 tubes of toothpaste, 1,000 litres of liquid deodorant besides other consumable material of lesser interest.