stuart little can swim

or maybe what i thought was a sweet little gray mousie was really a rat.

in any case, I saved it from the pool.

hopefully it doesn't repay my kindness by coming in the house. poor thing was so freaked out that it tried to jump out of the skimmer net and ended up back in the pool. i fished the rodent out.

after a few seconds of drying off it seems ok, but now I am too afraid to look in the baskets tonight...

I originally thought it was a really big frog, until I noticed its tail. i guess i am tired.

still it's not as traumatic as my first encounter with one of stuart's kind, back when i was 5. no one ended up bitten or tested for rabies.