Cat

I am now a proclaimed city girl… I admit it. I can honestly say that living en las guindas (hillsides) de Guaynabo has its drawbacks: mainly creepy animals.

I spend sleepless nights listening to weird birds singing like they are calling out my name… or I freak out because all the dogs in the neighborhood are barking up a storm… either at strays that pass by or maybe it’s at some creepy dude hiding out in the woods? Hmmmm… Yikes! I screamed when what I thought was a flying spider was attacking me… turns out it was some sort of long-legged mosquito… I scream when little lizards or coquies jump out at me… I try to avoid stepping into the centipedes that come in after it rains. What can I say, I AM a scary cat!

The ultimate in When Animals Attack Brenda… Two nights ago, I got a mouse in the house!!! OMG! I was sooooo scared. It apparently got in when I left the door open as I was taking stuff out of my car. Chela was barking up a storm and I thought it was ’cause she is kind o’crazy, but she was barking at the mouse that was running into my house!

When I first saw the mouse, I screamed like a little girl… as it was scurrying toward my hallway’s open closet.  I quickly barricaded the area so it wouldn’t get out… I thought I was safe, for now… I closed all the doors of the rooms, just in case… close out the perimeter, right?… Well… later that night, when I came out of my room… I heard something struggling inside an empty Macy’s shopping bag I had in the kitchen… apparently the mouse jumped over my Great Wall of China barricade, then jumped up a little kitchen cart I have, and then somersaulted into the red and white-star shopping bag and was caught! Yay for me!!! As it kept struggling, I started getting closer and closer to see if I could catch it inside the bag and trap it… but then, as I was trying to look inside the bag… IT JUMPED OUT AT ME!!!

EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk!!!  MIGHTY MOUSE!!!

I didn’t run…. I S-P-R-I-N-T-E-D to my room and locked the door!!! Safe!!! (for the moment).  Thank God I had a broom in my room, so every time I came out I was with weapon in hand. I never heard from him again…

Since then, I went to the store to get ammunitions and as you might have guessed… the mouse is with the little mouse angels now. I still left some traps out just in case another mouse wants to pay me a little visit. I am still getting used to living in las guindas… Next time, I am going to borrow my neighbor’s cat!

Mouse