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Miss Eva here. I haven't been online much the past few days, decided to visit my favorite FReeper place, the daily dose, and happened across your cat comments.

Back in the early 70s, two of my sisters had for some reason taken the screen off their bedroom window. They had pet hamsters in their bedroom. I decided it was stuffy so had gone around opening windows, leaving them open for a long time. Apparently, the neighbor's cat came in their window, pulled the top of the hamster cage, took the poor little hamsters, who were never to be seen again. At least that's what they surmised when the hamsters turned up missing, fingers pointing directly at me as the party responsible. Tragic! Tragic to kids anyway.

I will never live that down; they STILL like to tell about the time I allowed the neighbor's cat in w/ the resulting loss of hamster life.

So, anyHOO, seeing your post on your sweet kitty that's so interested in your other pets reminded me of the not-so-nice cat that came in the open window.

E.C.

Yikes! I bet you WERE in trouble for a long, long time!
My sisters have stories about me too, and I'm sure they'll follow me forever! :-)

I actually had to euthanize one of my daughter's hamsters; but I had to do it stealthily because it would have broken her heart. The poor thing had cancer and open wounds and sores and tumors ALL OVER its little body.

One time when we had hamsters and my old cat was still alive, the scene was like this; hamsters in their cage, being stared at by the cat, sitting right next to the cage. Dog on the floor, staring up at the cat who was staring at the hamsters. I wish I would have gotten a picture--I would have called it, "The food chain."

Do you have a cat today? Or a hamster?