I have never met a white cat that was completely normal or sane.
I have never met a ginger cat that wasn't nuts.
Kira is half white half ginger.
The best of both worlds.
Let me tell you the tale of the dead starling.
Last week Kira proudly brings a starling in through the cat door and starts playing with it under the diningroom table. Don't ask me what it is about the dining room table but that is were the bulk of cat found prey turns up.
The good news is that the starling is dead.
The bad news is that Kira refuses to take it back outside and I am running late for work.
I scoop it up and throw it outside into the leaves thinking I will deal with the body and the feathers left under the table later.
I open the door to leave for work and in comes Kira with the dead starling and deposits it under the table.
Again I scoop it up and remove it leaving it in a less accessable spot and head to work.
When I get home the first thing I hear is "Mum, Kira has a dead starling under the table".
Again I get the dust pan and scoop it up - why the kids can't do this I don't know. I can't find the trowl to bury it so I put it under the big pile of leaves under the trees at the top of the section, oddly enough the bird isn't in rigor as I would have expected it to be by now. I go and put my feet up, it has been a long day.
Mr Sp gets home and the first thing I hear is "oh f***, Kira get that out of here" Kira came in as Mr Sp opened the door -carrying a dead starling.
While he is getting it off her and out from under the diningroom table yet again Sp1 turns up home from uni.
"Did you notice that the dead starling that was lying on verge up the road is gone"
"What, that one that has been there for the last 3 days?"
"Yeah, that one"
"I think this is it, look the body has been completely eaten out by insects"
It was a very dead starling.
Mr Sp puts it in the outside wheely bin (why didn't I think of that?).
While we were comparing tales about how many times Kira had brought it in Kira was outside trying to workout how to get into the wheely bin.
She gave up after an hour.