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It was a bright sunny day. The Brautigam family just got home from the store. They had gone there to get ingredients for the Christmas lasagna they were planning to make for the evening. As they were just getting home, Mrs. Brautigam realized she had forgotten the marinara sauce. She frantically gathered her family and got back into the car, then headed back to the store. Before she left, she fed Meow Mix to her cat, Sprinkles, and told him to watch over the cheese she left on the kitchen counter for the lasagna. Sprinkles is a black and white cat that always listens to the family order. He would not let that cheese go missing. Guda, the determined and clever father mouse, was watching all this go on with his family. Seeing his family leave again, he started to plan his adventure to get the cheese and bring it back into his hole in the wall for his family. As soon as the family left, the cat knew it was on. Sprinkles and Guda have always hated each other. Guda walked out of his hole, slowly with his cowboy boots with spurs on them, while Sprinkles walked out from the opposite side of the house and faced him. They had a good old western fashioned stare down as a dust cloud rolled from under the furniture bye. "I'm watching you," Sprinkles said, never taking his eyes off of Guda. "We'll see about that!" Guda said, scurrying back in his hole to create his master plan to capture the cheese. Guda comes up with his master plan with his family. They decided he should slide down the railing and try to get the cheese that way. Guda kisses his wife and family goodbye asks them to wish him luck. Leaving his hole he looks back at his family in case it may be his last time seeing them. He walks away quietly to set up his first event. As Guda is about to slide down the railing, Sprinkles spots him and gets ready to stop him. Guda starts sliding down and lunging down thinking he's got the cheese. Sprinkles suddenly swings out and tackles Guda in mid air, stopping him inches in front of the cheese. They dropped to the ground and were wrestling for a while, then got up to face each other. "Stay away from my cheese!" Sprinkles said, hissing at Guda. Guda scurried back into his hole to plan his next attack. Half an hour later, they have the plan devised. Guda would use the children's small trampoline to bounce himself up to the cheese to get it. The trampoline was already in position, so there was no way Sprinkles could see him. He took a deep breath, lunging leap, and jumped onto the trampoline and through the air. While in midair, Guda saw out of the corner his eye Sprinkles, sitting on the couch smiling and holding a large laser gun. He aimed, shot, and fired at Guda with great precision. He stunned him, so Guda became completely stiff and fell to the ground. Sprinkles yelled "Bulls eye!" when he saw he had hit him. Guda lied stiff on the floor for a few seconds, then got up and shook out his fur. He flashed Sprinkles an angry stare, then scurried back into his hole. Sprinkles smiled to himself and casually walked back into the kitchen and laid down. He knew that he had won this time. Guda was getting angry. He strongly disliked not getting what he wants, and he felt sure that the third time was the charm. He and his family had carefully devised this plan, making sure it was foolproof. The plan this time involved a large catapult, which would launch him directly up to the cheese. Also, to distract Sprinkles, he would leave a false trail of catnip where Sprinkles will think will lead to Guda, but Guda will wheel the catapult the other way. He kissed his family goodbye, and set out for his final attempt. He crept into the hallway and led the catnip into the dining room, to distract Sprinkles. He then brought out his large catapult and hid it behind a door until he saw that Sprinkles smelled the catnip and began to walk towards it. Guda wheeled out the catapult and set it in the perfect position to launch himself. Sprinkles, in the midst of enjoying the amazing catnip, had no clue that Guda was planning all this. Guda looked both ways, then pulled the string and released himself towards the cheese. No sign of Sprinkles, Guda was ecstatic when he finally reached the cheese. He embraced it, and then carried it back to his hole with his family. Just as Guda was closing the door to his house, the family walked back in. They got the marinara sauce and were now getting hungry. They were ready to start making the lasagna, when the mom realized the cheese was missing. She looked all over for it, but all she found was Sprinkles in the dining room, surrounded by catnip. She asked him where the cheese went and his face went blank. Guda had tricked him! Sprinkles was extremely angry with himself for getting distracted and not doing his job of watching the cheese. The family was all angry with him also. Due to the fact that the cheese was gone, the family decided to just go out to dinner and save the marinara sauce for another night. They went out and had a lovely dinner at a Japanese restaurant, Wasabi Tacos. The family returned later to find the house clean, and the cat and mouse never had any problems again.