Mini and the rabbit

I was taking a break, eating pizza (focahia bread topped with pizza sauce and melted Ropp Dairy tomato, basil, garlic cheese curds – Yum, yum) and watching TV, when Mini came in with something nasty in her mouth.  I thought at first it was a small intestine (long and gray, like an overboiled footlong hotdog with one end open and half the stuffing fallen out).  Since she has so few teeth, she had to drop it on the floor and I swooped over and grabbed it up.  Luckily for me, I had a napkin in my hand at the time!   It turned out to be a rabbit’s foot and leg that had been taken over by maggots then chewed by Mini.

Since I was curious, I went out in the backyard to find the rest of the rabbit.  I finally found it in the vegetable garden, between the tomato plants.  It had been there for a few days.  Its guts were gone, probably sucked out and eaten by the dogs, parts were here and there, and there was a coating of tiny, rice like maggots wriggling over them.  There was no way that I was going to touch that writhing mass, so I left it to Mother Nature.

Later that evening, I went up to the guestroom to read a book (The Pirates: In an Adventure with Ahab) and smelt something musky and pungent.  I found a bone on the bed – the same bed that Mini and Shoebert spend their days on.  It appeared to be a pelvis.  It was picked clean and didn’t smell.  Then I noticed the spot on the bed.  Someone had either barfed or had nasty diarrhea that oozed all the way down to the mattress cover.   At the time I bought the mattress, I thought I had fallen for the hard sell at the mattress store when Henry, the salesman, talked me into getting the overpriced and WATERPROOF covers, but now I’m feeling much better about the decision!