Thanks Frank

Our cat Frankie has to be one of the most tolerant cats I have ever met. And I have met A LOT of cats! Working @ an animal shelter for 4 years gave me the opportunity to meet maybe thousands. Frankie is ridiculous with Avery. She LOVES Avery. Well, more like Frank loves to be touched and pet and she is totally willing to take Avery's abuse and call it good. Frank has never hissed, swatted or growled at this kid and I have even caught Avery trying to drag the cat across the room by her tail. Not only is Frankie absolutely wonderful with Avery, but she has been doing an AWESOME mousing job @ our trailer. I have been aware of 2 mice since we have moved in that have made it inside. The first was back in July and Frankie had it in her mouth one morning and I thought it was dead so I had her drop it...whoops. It was alive, but we caught it in a trap the next morning (thank goodness, because I am pretty sure it was pregnant). The second was last week and I heard Frank chasing it around the house one night and the next day I found she had cornered it in one of Avery's toys. Rather than let Frank have the fun of torturing the poor mouse, I smashed it with a shoe. Totally gross, but what else was I going to do? Set a trap and hope it falls for it? Let Frankie play with the thing until it died a slow death? Catch it, risk it biting me, throw it outside and hope it doesn't find its way back inside? I went with the quick and easy and smashed its skull. Then, I threw it in the trash, washed my hands and sanitized Avery's toy, the floor and the bottom of my shoe. Avery just stared at me like I was crazy the entire time. I just hope Frankie will continue to let me know when we have a mouse before I have to clean up mouse poo all around the house.