House Hunt
I need to begin the story with a little background. I live in a housing
development with lots of open space, so there are lots of critters around, I
also have a barely domesticated female cat that is at least 12th generation
Indian Reservation stock, so is very good at hunting. Now the story:
Late one night after having more than a few drinks I was awakened by a great
commotion down stairs. I flipped on the light at the head of the stairs to see
one of the biggest rats I have ever seen. It was sitting on the back of a chair
fending off the cat, which had apparently drug it in for the main course of a
midnight snack, which it does frequently. The rat had other plans, and, being
large, aggressive and holding the high ground, was keeping the cat in check.
The wife was up by now watching the whole cat rat fight thing, lots of hissing
spitting and biting. I grabbed up my single cock pellet rifle and loaded up a
pellet, lined up on the rat on the back of the chair with the wife yelling at
me not to shoot the cat. One shot mid section of the rat knocked him off the
chair, it was a through and through shot with the pellet hitting the Piano
(which was a bad thing) the rat then proceeded to run around the living room
leaking blood with the cat after it. The carpet now had little blood spots in
pinwheel patterns and the wife was telling me I had killed the piano. The rat
finally crawled under an end table and holed up in the corner, and the cat
couldn’t get it out. I then went to plan B, with was my pellet pistol. With
the pistol in one hand and a flashlight in the other I pulled back the end
table, stuck the pistol up to the rat which proceeded to try bite the end off
the barrel which didn’t really work out too well for the rat. With the rat
finally dispatched, the cat ran out of the house, I collected the rat, threw it
out the window and went back to bed. Next day was spent cleaning the carpet and
trying to patch up a pellet hole in the piano, which I never could do to the
wife’s satisfaction. This is as true a story as I can remember it and is the
best house hunt I have ever had. Larry