Rodent stocking program

OK, so we have two cats, mighty hunter cats, ferocious tiger cats. There is no better way to spend your time as a cat than by hunting small rodents out in the woods. Well, maybe there is. For instance, you could hunt small rodents inside, where it is warm and dry.

We have a cat door installed in our bedroom door so they can come and go as they please. This was done to allow them to attend to important cat business without scratching at the door and making us get out of bed every hour to let them in or out.

There was a flaw in our plan.

The two cats have worked out a plan in which they capture small rodents out in the woods, bring them in through the cat door, and turn them loose in the living room to hunt later. It's a daily occurance.

They bring in field mice, moles, voles and chipmunks. Sometimes Freddie the Cat will kill one and eat it. Well, at least most of it. Marble Cat just like to torture small animals, so he catches them, wounds them, then lets them crawl away so he can pounce on thme again. I've gotten pretty adept at capturing terrified small animals and setting them free back in the woods, but as I write this, there is a young chipmunk hiding out under the bookshelf next to Wendy's desk. He's been in the house for at least three days, but we haven't been able to catch him. She's on the phone with a customer right now; I can hear her talking about a ranger musket...it's only a matter of time until the little critter makes a run for it, runs over her foot, and she'll let out a scream.

Too bad pheasant stocking programs don't go as well as my cat's rodent stocking program!