Mouse Update -- The Doofus Caught It This Time!

My cat Nero, the hunting-impaired one with the hueueueuge claws and fangs that are so long they overlap his bottom lip (he's well-armed and usually about as dangerous to the local fauna as a jar of marshmallow fluff), caught a mouse in the kitchen last night, but he dropped it and it skittered under the stove and ran away.

About an hour ago, he came trotting in here to the living room, where I was sitting at the computer, with the mouse in his mouth, whereupon he dropped the mouse in front of me (he wanted to share, nice kitty! yuck!), then caught it again and took it out to the kitchen because I got up and led him out there.

He caught it again and kind of squished it, so it was pretty well dead by the time I scooped it up using a Tupperware bowl and a manilla envelope. It was definitely dead (or maybe just unconscious -- do mice faint?) when I flushed it down the toilet. If it wasn't dead by then (but I think it was), it is now...

That's the first thing Nero's *ever* caught. Usually, his idea of hunting is to take two or three inadequate swipes in the direction of the thing I'm trying to get him to catch (with his claws in, of course), and then look pleased with himself and demand to be petted.

I've got a couple traps out and a bunch of Warfarin bait (non-toxic to cats, as it's in a grain-based medium), so hopefully that's the end of it for now. (I really need to move!)

you Canadians and we Americans. We worship our Tupperware and would never sacrifice a piece just to dispose of a mouse. We love our Tupperware so much that we kill our husbands if they take it to work and leave it their. But congratulations on your cat's newly aquired hunting skills.

I flushed the *mouse*, not the bowl I put over it to keep it from running away again! I've put the bowl in the sink, and I'm going to wash it up later... (That Tupperware was a birthday present!)

Now the big galoot (~15 lbs of cat) is walking around, coming occasionally to stare at me, and making that, "Hey, bring it back!" meow. I can't win... I keep telling him it's gone, but he hasn't quite grokked that yet.

What a kitty!

I laughed all the way through your post. Please give Nero an ear scratching for me, will ya?

Re the mouse, you shouldn't have flushed it so soon. I'd have let mine play with it a bit more. Big moment, you know.


Cher

I will give him a big ear scratching (his favourite), when he gets done with the sunbeam over there.

I thought he'd already played with it a bit too much for my tastes, considering that he batted it around pretty good last night (the thing kind of wove its way under the stove, and wasn't moving too fast), and since I've had Warfarin out as well, I kind of didn't want the thing to explode into a puddle of red paint, either.

it might not be good for the cat. Note also that a sick mouse (that's ill from the warfarin) is easier for the cat to catch.

Just my 2 cents...