..to have left DH at the mercy of the creature under the bed

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Fast asleep. Awoke to the sound of cat thumping onto floor (i stupidly left lower window open). A moments silence is followed by frenzied scuttling around the room. More silence. Then manic attacking of the bottom of the bed under the silky throw.
I grabbed phone and turned screen on to gloomily light the room(DH is still obliviously snoring)
Cat is frozen, staring under bed in stealth mode.
Decision time..to put my feet on the floor even though i dont know whats there or if its going to get me.(momentarily transported back to every childhood nightmare)
Leap off bed and into hall. Run upstairs n get DS2 to come down & look for evil bed monster. DS2 explains it would be easier to waken DH and turn light on. Decide DS2 is probably more sensible than me right now as he is not freaking out in the slightest.
Turn light on and waken DH..
DH is half asleep but agrees to look..says we dont need DS2 to help...DS2 leaves but DH rolls over n goes back to sleep .
Cat is still stalking bed monster.
I have lured cat out with ham and put it out
I have had to text DS1 and ask if i can sleep in his bed. He has offered to sleep on couch whenever he decides to come home.
AIBU not waking DH up properly and leaving him at the mercy of the catch of the day? How do i track down alive/dead thing tomorrow? Aarrgghh!!

How declasse having birds under your bed - I have the Queen under mine.

I think a rat makes a thumping with its tail

How declasse having birds under your bed - I have the Queen under mine.

Look, it's not my fault I had to hide when that appalling journalist from the gutter press turned up in your bedroom, what was he doing in there anyway?

love the thread tangent. So update. DS1 came home at 5.30am. Came upstairs and asked for a pillow. I apologised again for stealing his bed & said goodnight (or mornin). Got up this morning. Let cats in. Evil monster catcher goes upstairs to sleep even though he sleeps on my bed everyother day grr. DH gets up n comes back asking where DS1 is. We search all rooms. Search cars outside. Search garden. His phone keys and shoes are here but he is gone and so are his pillow and blankets.
Go back and recheck all rooms. Nothing!!
Phone his mate and leave a frantic message.
Trying to figure it out. Have an image of shoeless DS wandering through streets of town hugging pillow and blanket.
Consider when is a suitable time period before phoning police..
DH goes to get workshoes n finds him sleeping on the pregnancy pillow in the cupboard under the stairs!!!
Explanation.... he said it was too bright to sleep on the couch
Everyone has now gone to work. And other cat has left again.
So its just me and the bed monster!!
Anyone got bicycle clips they can lend me for my trousers?

There is nothing for it, you'll have to go and spend the day in a coffee shop. Meanwhile set up a webcam under your bed and link it to MN before you go.

Argh I need to know what it was!!

My cats are fiends. I have had lots of dead birds and mice. One cat stole a racing pigeon. One cat brought a live bird in once . Oh and one of my current cats likes to bring butterflies in and tear them to shreds on the couch

My first ever kitten was a bit wild, and was a small, slender thing. To begin with he would bring in dead leaves which had blown about outside.

Then he turned up early one morning with a koi carp, from over two fences away.

My mum popped it in a wash bowl with some water and took it back to the neighbour.

That was embarrassing (though why the heck they never put a net over their pond was beyond us, there used to be fishponds near us and the herons still flew over the gardens back then and were known to steal fish.

Whatever it was is no longer under the bed. You may never know where it went unless it dies of shock...it’ll give itself away then.

I had this happen one summer in the bungalow we lived in window open and in the cat comes great big thump on the floor and then squeaking and growling. We got up put the last get on and there's our wonderful Delilah and a mouse the only way to catch the mouse was for said cat to catch the mouse and then carve the snarling growling beastie and chuck uninvited pair out the top flap and swiftly close so no reentry happens. Few days later cat starts dribbling with a foul breath so quick trip to the vets and after a examination it was found she had a bite mark on her gums where the mouse had bit back, she recovered after antibiotics but the was a mouse that wasn't going without a fight that's for sure.

Sorry auto spell gone mad on my iPhone!

Oh god, this is awesome! @MNHQ - Classics please!!

Talc/flour on the floor. See what foot shape the demon creature has! 💡

Do you have a hamster that might have escaped?

We heard a scuttling behind the dressing table in the middle of the night and assumed it was a movie use. DH was armed with a frying pan to clobber it when we suddenly thought what it might be!
Low and behold one small hamster cowering in the corner as we pulled the dressing table out from the wall!

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Ok everyone..UPDATE
DH & DS2 came home for lunch and offered to lift nice heavy super king sized bed up to see if anything was there.
So they lift up bottom of the bed up (while fat useless cat lies on it and stares at everyone... not evil bed monster catcher)and i get down on my hands and knees to look. (Jeez..the stuff that can accumulate under that tiny space is amazing)
Had a good look for a few mins but nothing alive or dead. Thought it must have been a spider or just a mad half hour moment.
DH & DS2 put bed back down and then suddenly a rather large mouse runs out from under DHs bedside unit and makes a break for freedom.
I scream blue murder and jump on bed scaring the bejeezus out of DH, DS2 & fat lazy cat (Lets call him FLC) mouse gets fright of its life and runs back under bed to make a nice nest in the dust bunnies!!
Bedroom door is now closed. Everyone has vacated room apart from FLC.
Window is back open ( i think i may be inviting rhodents to stay at this point)
Im heading out to buy a humane trap!!
DS1 has just arrived and been updated and has said he want his bed back tonight(presumably so he dosent need to sleep in a cupboard) and asked.." Do i realise mice can squeeze under doors so no room will probably be safe tonight anyway!"
Does anyone want a lodger??

@Theyoungoffendersmum handing back the fish in a wash bowl lol classic

DH has just came back home and is worried mouse will die of starvation if we leave it with no food. Clearly he is not appreciating the level of freaking out im doing if he now expects me to provide bed and board to our new house guest!!

Look, it's not my fault I had to hide when that appalling journalist from the gutter press turned up in your bedroom, what was he doing in there anyway?

How else am I supposed to get my kiss and tell stories on the front page of the tabloids?

Poor mousie! Give it a regal name like Their Royal Highness Mousie Escape Artist the Third and feed it (they LOVE biscuits). It will give your bed status and your neighbours will admire and envy you. OK, you'll never sleep easy again, and it will widdle on your carpets, bedding, your DH and the furniture but it's a small price to pay. Mousie TRHESTT and "Saskia" could be great friends

@user . Oh no! Had only been concentrating on the horror that is a live mouse! Hadnt even thought about rodent bodily fluids. Gross!! I suppose its a good excuse to push the bed out and clean up the world of stuff that seems to have managed to squeeze under the 5cm space . Humane trap has been filled with Nutella (other brands are available) since lunch, but as yet not a single nibble. Perhaps he is protesting against the palm oil industry along with my sister!!

My cat bought a mouse in one winter and decided to juggle with it. During said juggling session he managed to bat it under the sofa that his fat arse couldn’t squeeze beneath.

Found it dead under the Christmas tree the next morning and DD cried her eyes out because poor mousy wouldn’t be getting a visit from Father Christmas that year

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@user WIDDLE!!! Haven't heard that in years . Also never thought about a rodent peeing before. You always know about mouse poop but it never occurred to me they must pee too

Nutella is good but the mouse needs bits of biscuits to dunk in it. Seriously, mice are incontinent and widdle as they walk so you need to get your new lodger back out into the wild, hopefully away from your manic killer cat and your carpets. Cats are fabulous animals but they have no respect for soft furnishings or small squeeky rodents so do the mouse a favour and rescue it before the cat comes back...