Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Puffy the Grasshopper Slayer

Last night, I was sitting around reading, or whatever I do when the sun goes down when I hear the loudest, scariest sound I've ever heard.  It was sort of like a fire-alarm?  Or maybe like a cicada with a loud speaker?  It was just a big grasshopper (BIG! like, the size of a mouse), sitting on top of my water filter.  I walked over, looked at it for a second and then decided that it lacked both stingy or bitey parts so I left it alone.  It hopped around the room for a few minutes--I could tell because it made a THUNK sound every time it relocated.

I went back to reading.

A few minutes later I heard some shuffling and crunching.  I looked up.  Puffin was looking at me crosseyed with a leg sticking out of her mouth and a wing dangling off her bottom lip.  She actually ate the grasshopper. I guess this means I can feed her less sardines tomorrow since she's supplementing her diet with insects.  This is great:  Kricket used to kill giant roaches in my MiamiHouse, but she never ATE them.  Just left the little carcasses for me to clean up.  I guess Africa cats are hungrier.

2 comments:

  1. Was it one of those super awesome rainbow colored grasshopper-ey things? I think I saw a few of them in the English hub. They look awesome when they fly.

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  2. Can Puffin teach my cats to do that please? They won't even eat a baby spider for me. :P

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