Sticky

As the clock struck 11:30pm, all was quiet in the Becker household. Not a creature was stirring not even a………………………Oh wait, sorry, wrong story .  Got carried away with the thoughts of Yule.
Anyway, earlier in the week we had an invasion of flys. I know, right, flys the end of Nov. in Iowa, who would of thunk it? In face we have never had a fly invasion of this proportion since we’ve lived here.  They were all collecting on the ceiling and with my short self and the fact I’m afraid of heights that’s where they were staying.  Yes even standing on a chair scares the crap outta me.

I called Brian and asked him if he would pick up some fly strips on his way home.  He thought I was insane asking for them but non the less he still picked up some.  For those of you who are not familiar with them I grabbed a pic off of the internet for you. I’m such a thoughtful blogger.

You hang it up and the strip is all glue so the flys just stick to it.

We had one hanging from a ceiling fan and I didn’t think to much about it. Just wanted to get those pesky flies outta my house.

The next night all the lights were off as everyone was asleep and I was at my computer when all of a sudden I hear a ruckus behind me.  I hear Zoey (our cat) scrambling around on the table then I hear the chair falling to the ground and the race is on. She is running around the house like she’s on fire. Turns out she had been batting at the fly strip and it fell on her. Since it’s covered in glue it stuck to her and it wasn’t going anywhere. Finally after running around for a good 10minutes she was able to get it off of her. It actually got caught on a door and ripped a bunch of her fur off.  She was one sticky kitty!!!
I held here while Brian tried to use a baby wipe to get some of the glue off of her. No luck…so he held her while I combed her hair…again no luck.