A Zoo!

The last 2 nights have been unbelievable around here! Thursday night - well, actually, it was Friday morning at 2:00, I'd just finished feeding Sarah and was walking back to bed when I heard a funny noise on the stairs, I look over the ledge and there's a cat running down the stairs! This wouldn't be a problem except we don't own a cat!! So I start yelling for Chris...there's a cat in the house! So he gets out of bed to run downstairs to find it, mom hears me (she'd just flown down that night) and she's getting out of bed to help find it, too. Luckily, the dogs were passed out asleep in her room (great watch-dogs, huh?), so they didn't hear the cat until she/he started meowing like crazy, then they went nuts! The cat moved from under the kitchen table, to behind the recliner then finally up the stairs to our bedroom, under the dresser. In the meantime, mom and I are closing all the bedroom, bathroom doors we can but we left the front and back door wide open, hoping he/she would go out on it's own. I finally moved the dresser and Chris was able to catch the cat, wrap it up in a towel and put it outside...all without being scratched or bitten. We finally let Murphy and Riley out of the guest bedroom and opened the door to Sarah's room and Murphy ran in to check on his "baby" to make sure she was ok - Riley ran downstairs looking for food.

Then THIS morning, mom went downstairs with Sarah to feed the dogs, they'd already gone out and the back door was open (typical, so they can go in and out on their own). I'm upstairs putting Sarah's laundry away and Chris was still sleeping. Mom then yells out, Oh My God - There's A BIRD In The House!! Yup...a robin had come in through the open back door and was walking around the kitchen! I ran down the hall and yelled for Chris - he couldn't believe we had ANOTHER animal in the house! We were trying to get the dogs to stay upstairs, but the bird was so freaked out it was screaming and the dogs were NOT going to stay upstairs! The bird was trying to fly out the kitchen window (above the sink) and kept hitting the glass. Mom finally threw a baby blanket over it and was able to get it outside onto the hill (so the dogs wouldn't go after it). Murphy is still jumping up to see what's above the sink!

What a crazy couple of days, huh? Wonder what we'll have visiting tomorrow? A raccoon?