Zues & Artemis
by Moon Fae
I had two mice which I acquired from a friend who wasn't taking care of them. I knew my two cats would be *very* interested in them but I didn't know the seriousness of the situation would come to this point. Well, a couple days ago one of my cats - Nubbie - knocked over their cage and got ahold of one of the mice while everyone else in the house was sleeping. In the morning, after a night of Nubbie and my other cat, Salem, throughing him around, he was found dead in the dinning room. :( Then, while I was watching TV I heard something in my room thunk. I thought it was just the wind slamming my door so, I didn't go see what happened. But soon I wondered why Salem and Nubbie weren't play-fighting or running around so, I turned and looked around - only to find Salem watching Nubbie playing and throughing something around in the air. Immediately I knew what it was and scolded Nubbie. Thank the Goddess, he wasn't dead but he was breathing hard and obviously traumatized. I held him for about 10mins just making sure he was alright and then my Aunt Laura came to pick me up because we were going to mow and trim my Grandma's backyard after we stopped at Home Depot. I took my mouse with me to the store. He was fine in my pocket throughout the store and when we were leaving, I felt him kicking my hand - come to find out, he was having a heart attack. So, my sweet little mousey died; the second and last one. They might've been smaller then a baby's shoe, but the size of their hearts were tremendous :) *sniffles*
Comments would be appreciated by the author, Moon Fa