nutria motel

apparently the nutria are coming into the house now. and they're attacking my cat! gracie has been hiding a lot lately--in cupboards and under things--and the other day she had a wound on her neck. we cleaned it up and made sure she was current on her rabies shots. and then last night (i missed all of this somehow, by the way, because apparently i sleep like i'm in a coma) otis woke matt up at 2 am barking and running back and forth next to the bedroom door (he sleeps in the bedroom with us with the door shut so he can't dig through the trash in the middle of the night while we're sleeping). so matt went out into the living room to see what was up and otis started howling and looking around. grace was practically behind the refrigerator. nothing else was out there, though, so he went back to bed. the same thing happened at 2:30. then at 3, gracie woke him up by scratching on the bedroom door. he went out again to make sure nothing was going on and saw ratty tail disappear out the cat door. he shut the cat door. then he was woken up again at 4 by the nutria, scratching alternately on the cat door and the bedroom window, like he was asking to be let in! fantastic. a nutria with a sense of entitlement.