Real Mouse. What would your cat(s) do?

One of my cats caught, killed, and partially ate a mouse about a year ago. DH heard her chasing it in the middle of the night, I found the head the next morning. Ewww!

One of my cat's Tibs takes a delight in catching mice, bringing them in the house and eating them (she loves them, I think they're yuk).

One of my other cats, Topsy (Tib's mum) frequently takes in pressies of mice to me. Mostly they are already dead but she sometimes takes in live ones and drops them at my feet, then sits back and gives me a look as if to say "Well, go on then. Go catch it!" I'm sure she thinks I'm a cat The best one she presented me with was a live RAT - and it was a big one. We managed to chase it out of the house. A couple of weeks later I found it dead by the back door. I've got a photo of it somewhere on disk so I'll try and find it and post it.

my friends cat brought him a badger!

Thee are at least 3 that Limerick may do at a sight of a mouse. He might play with it but it lives, look confused, or run away. The only mice he's seen is his toy mice.

mine will play with them and groom them for a bit, then pick it up, still alive and wiggling (and thoroughly terrified...lol) , and meow until I come see it. She gives them to me, and I pet her and give her treats. She's only ever killed one that I know of. It was huge, and she laid it out neatly on its back in the middle of the kitchen doorway, sprawled as if it were sleeping. She's a weird kitty.

We used to get mice from the field behind our house in the winter, and Cupid caught one once. He came trotting up to me with a mouse hanging from his mouth by the tail. It looked dead but it took off a few seconds after he dropped it by me. Then he chased it and brought it back. It hopped off, and he caught it and brought it back. He sat right by it but he wasn't even looking at it so it ran off again. I wanted to save it, but I'm scared of nasty mice because they could bite and they could carry disease. I called my roommate crying hysterically and by the time he got here from work, the mouse had ran away into the rest of the house.

Poor little mousy. I don't think Cupid was trying to hurt it at all. I don't even know if he knew it was real. When we play fetch, he does the same thing: brings me the toy, and looks off to where he thinks I'll throw it. He might have known because he dropped it on the floor instead of on the desk where he usually drops his toys when I'm sitting here. (Thank goodness.)

I took Cupid to a hotel and had them exterminate this year! Mice are so gross.

Well, my two barn cats are very good hunters. They catch, kill, and eat lots of squirrels and chipmunks. So, yes, they eat them.

Originally Posted by maverick_kitten

my friends cat brought him a badger!

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Now that's a feat! They have very sharp teeth.
This is a weird hunting story. One of my students lives on a farm, and about two months ago they found that they were missing chickens, so they set up web cams in the chicken coop. They suspected a cat or fox. The culprit was a big old hedgehog! I didn't believe it till he brought in a CD of the hedgehog in action. I thought they just ate insects.

Originally Posted by jcat

Now that's a feat! They have very sharp teeth.
This is a weird hunting story. One of my students lives on a farm, and about two months ago they found that they were missing chickens, so they set up web cams in the chicken coop. They suspected a cat or fox. The culprit was a big old hedgehog! I didn't believe it till he brought in a CD of the hedgehog in action. I thought they just ate insects.

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No way! I thought they only ate insects too! That's amazing. Poor chooks always get a rough deal.

Originally Posted by pushylady

No way! I thought they only ate insects too! That's amazing. Poor chooks always get a rough deal.

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I freaked out when I saw the footage. I always wear leather gloves when dealing with hedgehogs, because they're usually infested with ticks and lung worms. It never entered my mind that they could/would kill anything that wasn't bite-sized.

Luna would so not survive in the wild...she takes too long stalking her pray.

I think Jazzy will play with it and kill after few minutes of playing.

Bobber is the only regular hunter now but Grizzly too has brought their mice in the house!!! Bobbers were dead but yrs ago went Grizzly had kittens I think one of the mice she took to the basement was still alive. Ox hunted yrs back or he would eat one of the other cat's kill but not for quite a while. Bakker hasn't figured out what hunting is all about-which is ok.

My cats would look at it running it around and then wonder what on earth to do with it!

These are all great stories. Keep them coming!

This is kind of a sweet little story:
When Smudge was really sick with FIP, just a couple days before we lost him, his kitty momma, Elsa, brought a mouse to our back screen door. (We have a cat-fence, BTW) Of course we wouldn't let her in to give it to him, so after waiting a while, she dropped it and left, presumably to find another one? Then Tigger, the 15 year old cat, came and picked it up and paraded it around for quite a while. (Yeah, Tigger caught that!) It was very cute. She made sure we saw her.

I don't know what happened to the mouse. I think the dog ate it.

Originally Posted by hissy

All my cats at one time or another have had a mouse. Instead of giving you 14 descriptions- basically they do one of three things- play with it until they torment it to death. Snatch it up and kill it then race around the house with it in their mouth growling all the time- or play with it until they are bored, without fatally injuring it then it escapes through the wire (I have an outside enclosure)

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That pretty much sums up my experience, except that once in a while after they kill it, they tuck it into something interesting like my briefcase or under my pillow.

Originally Posted by Momofmany

That pretty much sums up my experience, except that once in a while after they kill it, they tuck it into something interesting like my briefcase or under my pillow.

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Ewwww & ewwww.

Glory was an indoor only cat till she was about 8. She became a good hunter, but I don't think she ever ate any of them.

Tiger was a 'fend for herself' cat in her early years. So she ate many mice!

My step-father used to say thoes 2 worked as a team, Tiger held em and Glory bit em! Glory was declawed and Tiger had bad teeth. My poor babies!

Cairo once killed a mouse by scaring it to death. Seriously. She was snooping around the back of the telly when she was about 10 weeks old, I'm sure it was because she could smell something `not quite right' behind there. Anyway, two minutes later she jumped from a stationary position literally about four foot in the air, and when she landed she took off so fast she was just a black-and-white blur. The next minute a little mouse came staggering around the telly - looked for all the world as though it was drunk - and dropped dead at our feet. She had literally scared it to death. It almost scared her to death, too, she wouldn't come out from under the bed for about three hours!! We were very proud of her - non-violent mousing is the way to go!!