Spitty x3

Get this dang bench offa me! It's heavy!!

Oh? Okay, right then. Thanks.

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Derby and Ducky have issued a little challenge to create a new version of  The Twelve Days of Christmas using creatures that are not Burds (The Trout-Talkin Tabbies, where all this originated, duz nawt like The Burds!) I came up with a tasty ♫ ♫  Rodentia Version ♫ ♫ :

On the twelfth day of Christmas

My true love sent to me

Twelve mousies twitching

Eleven voles a-sniffing

Ten rats a-running

Nine chipmunks chewing

Eight squirrels a-scrambling

Seven shrews a-sneezing

Six gerbils jumping

Five guinea pigs

Four capybaras

Three handsome hamsters

Two tiny muskrats

And a porcupine in a spruce tree

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I collected Nellie on Caturday and we set off in the cold December afternoon to the Empress Hotel in Victoria where we enjoyed a Cream Tea with Mouse Tarts and tiny Vole-and-Cream-Cheese sandwiches.
Nellie was a delicate and refined Lady who nibbled daintily at her tart and sipped her tea. I, on the other hand, having recently become a glutton, slobbered as I vacuumed up my fudz and slurped my drink. The wait staff were extremely courteous, saying nothing to me as they exchanged sympathetic glances with Nellie.
We headed back to her tiny village, well-fed and sleepy from our outing. Nellie invited me in for a snuggle and a nap before I set out for the City-by-the-Bay.