My cat caught a mouse!!!

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Today I went downstairs to find my cat playing with a small brown mouse! Does anybodies cat does this?



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When we lived in a house, in the fall we'd have mice come through the basement occassionally. One of them was clearly not very smart, and for some reason came upstairs. :lol3: I came down to find Spooky crouched COMPLETELY wide-eyed, every muscle tense, on guard in front of the crack under the closet door. I knew it must be something, so I opened the door, and she BOLTED in there and chased the mouse out. Tuxedo grabbed it and ran up the stairs to the cat room with his "prize," and Gary had to go rescue the mouse from him and put it out of its misery. :nod:
 

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Yep lol, we had a mouse in our old house goodness knows how it got in but it was comical to watch the cats,they sat there for days where it was hiding and they literally would only leave to go and eat and do their business.I came down one morning to find that someone had gotten it.x
 

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lol my parents' oldest cat Tasja is a hunter of all things furry.  We used to keep the door that connected the kitchen to the garage open when we went on vactions and when we came home we'd go into the garage and find the scene of a mouse mass murder.  She would eat the bodies but she'd leave the heads, back legs and tails alone so we'd see a mouse head over here, a tail over there, another tail with a back leg still connected on the seat of the lawn mower, another head, another tail.....you get the picture. lol needless to say, though we appreciated the rodent population control in our garage, we got tired of cleaning up mouse parts and we started leaving the door closed to the garage when we left on a vacation.

She killed a bird and ran inside the house with it....we thought it was was dead..it wasn't. When she dropped it, the poor bird started flying around in our dining room getting birdy blood over the curtains and walls...not cool.

On occasion she'll come across a mouse outside, which is the funniest, most morbid scene depicting survival of the fittest and the food chain. It's like watching something from the Wild Kingdom. She'll spend a good 30+ minutes just toying with the mouse. Playing with it...and truthfully just torchuring it. She'll toss it in the air, catch it, put it back on the ground, watch it try to run, then she jump on it and sit on it for a few seconds before tossing it in the air again. She stomps on it with her back feet, throws it a few feet, watches it as it trys to run again, sits on it again.  All this time, she's extemely gentle with it, she'll almost carry it like a kitten and rarely brings her claws out.  After the mouse is too tired to try to run anymore, she'll finally deliver her kill bite.   Its kind of hard to watch but we figure that at least its its Nature's Law.

A month or two before I moved out she caught and killed a baby bunny...she ripped its throat out...it was pretty nasty but not nasty enough to snap a quick picture on my cell so I could show my parents Tasja's handy work when they got home.

Sorry, I know that some of you might think its cruel to let my cat "play" with a mouse like that but its natural.   I'd rather have the mouse get killed by my cat than one of those horrible glue traps.
 

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Happens quite often when you have cats. Since mine go outside, the prey varies - mice, frogs, bugs, lizards. Flying creatures like bats and birds is rare though.
 

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Our yard is teeming with shrews and mice, so a lot of them get caught. I usually take them away from the cats, because they won't eat the shrews and rarely eat the mice. Jamie sometimes gets birds or bats. He'll eat the birds, but release the live bats in the living room. Watching them flutter around is obviously a big thrill to him.

One time I was out back with him when he caught a rat and dropped it right on my lap. That poor rat was stiff with fear.
 

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How much will it cost to get Jamie shipped to the U.S. for a contract job?
  I've got an offer he can't refuse... (See my rat post above!)
 
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How much will it cost to get Jamie shipped to the U.S. for a contract job? :lol3:   I've got an offer he can't refuse... (See my rat post above!)
I call our yard and street "Kitty City" because so many people have cats for rodent control, so I can sympathize. I'd hate to imagine what it would be like without so many indoor/outdoor cats. The problem started when our county made it illegal to put garbage (anything organic) in with the rest of the trash. People have to pay a lot for extra garbage removal every other week, or compost, which many do, so the rats and mice have gotten fat and out of control. We're even getting raccoons in this area now.

The rats and mice are so bad that Jamie catches them despite being hampered by his harness and leash.
 

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Ari was a good mouser at the old homestead. He highly recommends leaving them under the fridge to mummify and increase their play value. :lol3:
 

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Bobber was our huntress supreme.  When cancer finally took a tole on her she stopped hunting and it was obvious as the damage in our yard increased.

Lucky for us Bender does a bit of hunting and Chirpy Boy does a bit too so hoping this winter the mouse/vole damage to my plants will be reduced.

But we have mouse part in the garage too-they like bringing the items into the garage and the run down the steps their "play" area where the prey cannot escape.  Sounds cruel but that is how they do it.

They don't get birds though.  Sometimes a gopher or chipmunk.
 

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Oh yes. Hydrox, the Old Coot, was a great mouser. Most of the time, he would play with them, but there were a couple of mice that bit the dust. He would chase them around the house, catch them and then when he got tired, he would lay on the mouse for awhile. Then he'd get up, let the mouse go and the whole thing would start again. Until he got tired of the whole thing. Let me see......

One winter night Hydrox brought a mouse to bed. We were lying in bed in the middle of the night and I heard Hydrox come into bed and I heard him purring. Then I heard the squeaking. Leaped out of bed and jumped backwards onto the bureau (I really hate mice). After trying to kill the mouse with his work boot, Rick finally grabbed Hydrox, who had the mouse in his mouth. He carried Hydrox out the hallway into the kitchen. We opened the kitchen door; Rick stuck Hydrox outside, Hydrox gasped at the bitterly cold air and he dropped the mouse, which scurried off into the night. We changed the bedsheets and went back to bed. It took awhile for me to go back to sleep that night.

I came home one morning from working third shift. Flopped down on the sofa and was lying there. I saw this "thing" on the rug next to the couch. Turns out that it was the hind end and tail of a mouse with entrail hanging out. I grabbed paper towels and covered the mouse butt. Grabbed Hydrox and went back to the bedroom. Shut and locked the bedroom door and went to bed. Rick came home from work that afternoon and knocked on the bedroom door. I opened the door and he said, "Pam, the mouse is dead; it's not going to do anything to you....why'd you lock the door?" And I replied, "Because I'm not taking any chances!"

And then, another morning, I had come home from working third shift, came in through the front door, and started up the steps, just in time to see a mouse run out the hallway with Hydrox right on its tail. I went back to the bedroom, shut and locked the bedroom door, and stuffed a towel under the door....so the mouse couldn't get in. And went to bed. Til Rick got home that afternoon, the mouse was.....um.....disposed of. And Hydrox wasn't very hungry.

So our King of the Mouse Catchers was Hydrox, the Old Coot. May he forever live in mouse heaven.
 
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