Oh My Gosh!

Friday morning a little after 5am after my dad went to work I was downstairs and heard the cat meowing at the door, I thought 'he just went out with dad, why does he want in now?'. I soon found out. I open the door, it's dark and in he comes and sets a mouse down. It starts running around and over my foot! EEK! I about passed out! Normally it wouldn't bug me so much but it was early in the morning, I hadn't slept, and the mouse ran over my foot! I called my dad and he was probably barely out of the driveway, he tells me to lay back down on the couch and let the cat get it-I'm thinking 'dad, mice CAN CLIMB!' Just because he hates them and didn't want to come back :) He proceeds to tell me to whack it with a broom or something. I just thought 'thanks for the help :)' So the cat is chasing it and I'm chasing it and it's crazy because I'm normally not scared of the things, but when you see these little beady eyes staring at you in the dark it kind of gets to you. I got a plastic cup and since I had the cat chasing it one way I went the other and finally trapped it under the cup and put a flip flop on top of that and proceeded to beg the cat NOT to knock it over :) if someone would have heard me they would have really thought I'd lost it! I then went and got some old newspaper and slid it under the cup and took the mouse outside and let it go. Mission accomplished-panic dying down. Then I felt bad because my cat was looking for it after like 'where did it go?'. So I went upstairs and had luckily gotten him a mouse toy that has a remote control and drives around so then he started getting that instead. I didn't feel so bad then. I kept telling him good boy :). It was funny because when my dad got home from work he starts playing with the cat and tells him 'don't bring a mouse in the house anymore and scare your sister to death'. I about started laughing when I heard that. So word to the wise, if your cat is meowing and sounds like his mouth is full-DON'T OPEN THE DOOR!!! Otherwise good boy Tom!!! We love you kitty!!!