Chris’s rabbit has had quite enough of Tottie’s bad manners...
Chris Pascoe’s Fun Tales
If there’s one thing my rabbit, Billie, can’t abide, it’s bad manners. Of course, she’s been fairly long suffering on that front, what with living with Ted (the world’s daftest rabbit, if two books on the subject are to be believed), but Ted doesn’t mean to be impolite, it’s just that he seems to lack the ability to think things through before behaving in a way likely to offend (eating Billie’s bed springs to mind).
However, our new cat Tottie’s recent actions have been a different matter altogether.
Tottie has so far managed not to get beaten up by our bruiser tomcat Bodmin – her technique being to slap him from behind so hard it takes him a moment to register what happened, then leg it at high speed and vault over a fence (echoing my own ninja fighting skills back in my heyday, which was of course…never).
But, she’s definitely fallen foul of Billie.
One reason Billie finds Tottie crude and distasteful is Tottie’s enthusiasm for ‘mousing’, something she excels at, as some readers may recall.
It’s difficult to understand Tottie’s mousing abilities, considering her habit of galloping around like a racehorse, and sounding exactly like one, too, leading to the nickname Thunderpaws.
How any mouse can’t hear her coming is beyond me, but catch them she does, and at such a rate, a local smallholder farmer has stopped using any other pest control techniques.
So, despite her terrible ways, she’s actually saving lives, because those abandoned techniques had a secondary effect on other wildlife, such as foxes and birds of prey (even SuperKeith had to be careful).
But Billie doesn’t like it.
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