Haven't checked in here for a couple days. Glad some of you liked my rat-in-toilet story.

The death struggle was indeed gruesome -- right after I had hit "Submit," I realized that I hadn't included any description of the little claws clicking against porcelain as the rat successfully paddled against the flow of the flush. (That was before I realized that flushing alone wouldn't do the trick, and that I'd have to hold it under with the plunger first and then flush the corpse.)

The Kliban cat bit was pretty cute, but that next one was SCARY! Funny that both cat animations featured slide guitar, of sorts. Felines are apparently into hard-core blues -- who knew?