# Well this is a new reason to be up at night

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 26, 2015, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-a-new-reason-to-be-up-at-night/713644 "2015-02-26T05:29:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-a-new-reason-to-be-up-at-night/713644/41 "2015-02-28T18:17:06Z")

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> [@Baker](#):
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> One night I was sitting in the living room and the sounds of a scuffle come from down the hall.
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> I hear a squeaking noise and I think “Oh shoot, the cat caught a mouse.” The squeaking comes down the hall. The cat comes into the room, and the “mouse” is flapping it’s wings.
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> It’s a damn bat. I swatted at the cat, he dropped it, and the bat goes flying around my living room. I get a pillow and take swings as it flys by. Third try I strike it and it falls to the ground stunned. Using a thick oven mitt I pick it up and toss it outside, where it flys happily away.

Somewhere in Baker’s house is a cat. A cat who first thought,  
[“…But…but…that was My toy…”](http://kittentoob.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/02/sad-cat.jpg)

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