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So, this room is mainly a crafting supply and exercise room. It also is where we feed our cats (two 13-month-olds, brother and sister).

And, we keep three litter boxes there.

There is also a cat door in the window leading to a catio.

Yesterday I found a large, slow-moving fly in the room and whacked it.

This morning the window had about 20 of them. Amity Horrorville!

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My very smart other half moved the couch, and the horror became real.

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Apparently a baby bunny had somehow squeezed into the catio - then our baby cats did the rest, including dragging it to their lair (through the cat door) - no clue if it was still alive at that point, or how it ended up under the back of the couch.

So, why didn’t we smell it?

Well, maybe we did. We changed cat litters, thinking the smell was the fault of the litter. It didn’t help much.

I can tell you this rabbit must have been there two or three weeks, because the underside was dry and crusty, and the hardwood floor (which had recently been refinished with three coats of polyurethane) was stained.

Sigh.

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“Let’s get a couple of kittens.” I said. “It’ll be a blast!”

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P.S.

Thanks to their fiercely persistent efforts, our back deck (which has contained adult cats quite well for many years) is beginning to look like Alley Cat Alcatraz.

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If you look closely at this next pic, you’ll see why: Lower middle, a temporary carport has a large hole in the canvas. This is from a kitten-cat (Jazzy, the dark gray one and the SMALLER of the two) landing hard and falling through.

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I am cautiously hopeful that we can let them out there again, but supervision will again be required for at least a few days.