My cat caught a mouse in my kitchen! Mixed feelings.

Interrobang

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Sat Jun-19-04 01:40 AM
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My cat caught a mouse in my kitchen! Mixed feelings.

That's amazing! I mean, this is *my* cat, the "can't hunt for shit" one... On the other hand, it's crappy because it means there's a mouse somewhere in my kitchen, since the doofus played with it and then dropped it, so it oozed under the stove and ran away. (With luck it got sufficiently mauled that it'll just crawl away somewhere and die, preferably *not* behind my fridge.)

Nevertheless, I am amazed, because my cat's idea of "hunting" is usually to take two half-hearted swipes (with his huge claws and giant sharp teeth) near whatever it is I want him to catch, and then come over looking pleased with himself and to be petted...

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amerikat

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Sat Jun-19-04 01:42 AM
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1. He's probably saving it to play with again later

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Spinzonner

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Sat Jun-19-04 01:44 AM
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2. How do you know

It's not an act the two of them worked up to improve your cat's reputation

He may have paid off the mouse.

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bullimiami

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Sat Jun-19-04 01:52 AM
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3. If theres one mouse...

there are probably more.

You probably want to take some pretty effective anti mouse action now.
Traps (no poison you have a cat) and try to figure out how they are getting in and out.

Do you have hanta virus where you are?

http://www.explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa052300a.htm

If so, be very careful about cleaning up the droppings.

I hate those meeces to pieces....

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Interrobang

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Sat Jun-19-04 02:35 AM
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8. I'm not sure there are...

I've had two in before, but they got caught and I haven't seen any evidence of them for months. Also, I'm not seeing really any droppings or that, so it may have been a fluke.

I don't think there's hantavirus here.

This mouse is pretty stupid, though, to come in a house with two cats (one upstairs, one downstairs).

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shanti

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Sat Jun-19-04 02:20 AM
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4. my cat

brought a mouse she'd caught INTO THE HOUSE. i freaked! sorry to say, but once the mouse crossed my threshold, it was fair game. the end was mercifully quick.

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northofdenali

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Sat Jun-19-04 02:32 AM
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7. One of mine did that to a shrew today.

Brought it in, let it go, recaught it.............spouse told the kitty to "take it outside", and..........SHE DID!!! We have a Cat Fence-In (tm) system, so the kitties don't get out of the yard, but we also have a neighbor who hasn't mowed his back yard in a decade. The shrews are so small, they can get in the little holes in the fence. Sugar, my kitty, was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO proud of herself.

Don't know if the shrew made it or not. With Sugar (who is our resident terra-ist kitty) I doubt it.

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InkAddict

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Sat Jun-19-04 02:26 AM
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5. Okay, true confessions but I'm reformed

I bought a little mouse and a plastic ball to put him in so my cats could get some kicks. Well, they wouldn't have anything to do with poor little Gizmo. I had to buy a very nice expensive habitat for the guy very quickly. After I purchased his mansion, the cats liked batting at the lightweight contraption and finally knocked it over allowing little Gizmo to escape. When he did, guess who hunted him down - the dog! I learned my lesson the hard way about providing sadistic pleasure to my felines and now stick w/catnip.

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TheWizardOfMudd

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Sat Jun-19-04 02:31 AM
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6. Let me know if you ever get a big fucking rat that chases your cat away

I'll tell you how to get rid of it.

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Throckmorton

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Sat Jun-19-04 06:54 AM
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9. Wanna borrow Andrew, the Assassin Cat?

He would stay in that room for days if necessary. The best hunter cat Ive ever owned.

BTW: He would eat the mouse too.

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