Vila later graduated to spiders (he found one under Gary's bed) mice and small birds, if I remember rightly. Very tiresome finding a pair of feet and piles of feathers around the house. Still, better than mouse guts.

Harry Cat used to leave just the top of the scalp and the ears of rabbits on the lawn, with the ears invariably set at a jaunty and innapropriate angle.



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Iain f. used to know when his family cats had been catching rabbits. Very circular and smug cat, with left-over rabbit scut on doormat.
Ah, the joys of living in the countryside.

I coulda done with a spider hunting cat when I lived with my brother (and where's he gone, anyway?). I lived in the attic, and in high summer it would get very hot. So one warm evening I'm lying on the floor watching TV. (It was cooler down there). I have very few clothes on. All is calm, until an absolutely *&^%ing huge spider decides to run across my chest.

Cue entire household banging on my trapdoor to find out what I'm dying of.
The next time I saw that spider I dropped the complete works of Shakespeare on him. It was a quick death, and a cultured one.



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sadly, cats rarely hunt spiders when you want them to. they prefer to prove how poor your friend's housekeeping is.

We didn't need no cat to prove how poor Adam's housekeeping was. My parents have now bought the house, and you wouldn't know it was the same place.



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My first apartment had been empty for some time when I moved in, and was utterly infested with spiders. For the first week or so I'd carefully catch them in a kleenex and throw them outside. After a week or so of doing this with multiple spiders a day, I became annoyed and started using shoes, books and flyswatters instead.

The frequency with which I found them gradually dimished the longer I lived there, but even after 2 years I'd find a least a couple a week. Usually rather large ones too.

Funny, I wasn't particularly arachniphobic before living there and being snuck up on by them regularly.....


Mind you, I have a friend who is going to be killed one day when she discovers a spider in her car and drives off the road. She nearly did it once when the spider was on the *outside* of the windshield.



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I'm better about spiders than I used to be. Great fun last summer watching Erica chasing her tall, rather villainous-looking boyfriend around, with a spider in her hands. Dave hates 'em.

I used to have a pet rat, which escaped and went into my sister's room. It popped out under her boyfriend, who screamed and lept onto a chair, like the woman from Tom and Jerry. Needless to say, he didn't last long.



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I like rats. A friend of mine keeps rats. She also has three nipples. These facts are completely unrelated.

Does she float?



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I've never tried to drown her

Well, weigh her against a duck or something, then...



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There's a shortage of ducks around here. Will swallows do ?

African or Asian?

And do swallows float. come to think of it?



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Only if they happen to be on top of a coconut.

So who's collecting those fees?

I dpon't know, but I suspect they'd soon sink with all that loose change.

Can I pay by installments?



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News just in --

U.S. forces have swooped down on an Iraqi primary school and detained 6th Grade teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar. Sources indicate he was in possession of a ruler, a protractor, and a calculator. Bush argues this is clear evidence Iraq has weapons of 'maths instruction'



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Grooaan !
that's so awful, I might have to share it with some unsuspecting friends.