THE RAT TAIL MYSTERY

Today Celia discovered a rat tail in the house.  Our cats are noted for their rat-killing abilities outside and have been known to leave certain parts of the poor critters at the sliding door to the outside deck.  I guess it is a way for them to show their appreciation of us and wanting to share their good fortunes by providing us with a morsel for our pot of swill.   How the rat tail got into the house is a mystery.   Most of the carnage takes place at night when we leave two cats outside to do their dastardly deeds and one cat stays indoors.  On colder nights we bring all three cats indoors.  We know there are critters in the walls and they have scratched their way through the sheetrock in one place, which has been plugged up with steel wool, pending a complete repair job one of these days.  We have not witnessed any critters running about in the house or seen anybody parts before the tail appeared today.   So far we have not found the remains of the rat with the missing tail, time will tell I guess.