There’s a story called “The rape patrol” by Michelle Belling in Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s anthology Amazons! and it’s about a group of vigilantes. A cathartic read, if you can find a copy.

So true, and I think they love us too.

That makes a certain amount of sense, as a mother cat will bring her kittens mice to teach them how to kill them. And we love them anyway.

You’re welcome, and good luck!

That is old! I

Yep; it’s over in a second, and I gather they don’t mess about like cats do, although there are reasons that cats “play” with their prey; they are trying to tire them out so that they are easier to kill with less chance of injury to themselves. Terriers just wade in.

I read an article a few years ago about bringing back terriers for ratting in England (I have rats in the yard, so it’s of interest to me), and the article was talking about one case where 10 terriers of different breeds were brought to a farm which had a really bad rat problem. 10 dogs. They killed about 4,000 rats…

I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with this!

I have no specific advice myself (never married), but I’m bringing you out of the greys.

Cats are dodgy when it comes to rats though; some will take on a rat, others no. My money is terriers for rats.

Last year I found dead mouse in one of their food dishes. I don’t know if the cat was hinting that he would like “more of this, please” and less chicken/salmon pate. It was like a tv dinner where you have your peas in one compartment, your potatoes in another and mice in the third one.

Kathy Reichs’ daughter Kerry is a gifted writer; she doesn’t write much, but they are very enjoyable. Not mysteries though; more “human interest/women’s fiction”.

Cats are THE BEST for mouse control! At one point, I was taking 4 cats to the cottage, and while everyone else was having an infestation, and mousetraps had sold out in every town for 50 miles, my ancient pile (it’s 120 years old) had barely any trace of mice; not even much in the way of droppings. They just avoided…

You might want to check out Ask a Manager’s archives; she might have a similar case

I think that “pay it forward” has to come with no strings; you see an opportunity, and then pay it forward. But, if you want to keep score, you could maybe take the money you would have paid for the meal, and maybe donate it to a food bank, or other charity.

I recently read Still Life, by Louise Penny. It’s the first in the “Inspector Gamache” series, and is set in a quaint town in Quebec. It’s quite beautifully written, and could stand on it’s own without even adding in the murder, but I will add, that I didn’t figure out the murderer until the reveal, which is unusual.

He was a great cat. He’d been moved around the shelters for a few months; I don’t know if they do this in your neck of the woods, but if they’re in a kill shelter, and the staff think they’re adoptable (maybe even if they don’t think so), when their number is up, they shift them to another shelter, maybe in another…

Yay!! Wynn’s getting adopted!!!

Every library system in a large city has had at least one dead body in a public washroom in one of their branches.

Excellent! His fur should be growing in and he’ll fluff up nicely. Let’s hope the prednisone can be discontinued at some point.