So the older cat brings in a mouse......

[hedgehog]

The young dog goes over and chases the cat. After a brief negotiation under the dining room table, the dog emerges with the mouse and goes to his den on the stair landing. My daughter and I follow him, and he is sitting there with the mouse running back and forth behind him. I try to grab the mouse, but I'm a little mouse shy. The mouse runs down the side of the stairs behind the dog pen. We crawl into the dog pen with a flashlight and locate the mouse, now running back and forth between the pen and the wall. Of course the dog is right beside us checking out the action. I go and get a plastic bag to cover my hand and come back. My hand is just a tad too thick to go far enough past the wires of the pen. I drop the bag over the mouse and my daughter tries. She gets her hand through, but the mouse, which we have both been watching, is gone. I look under the dog pen and find only a mummified frog. I don't even want to think about the frog. The dog and the little bitey cat start chasing something around in the office on the other side of the house. The dog emerges with the mouse (I hope it's the same mouse although I still can't figure out how it got from here to there so fast), trots into the living room and releases the mouse. The mouse runs under the couch and vanishes once again.










Sometimes I wish I drank.

[Sanity Claws]

1. You get a second chance to get it right

I'm sure your pets will be patient with you and will keep bringing the mouse in the house until you get it right.;)

[cwydro]

2. Oh my lord!

I have been there!:rofl:. I live on the water, getting ready to go to work one day....see the cat with a big old pigeon...chase the cat...cat runs out back...jumps in the canoe...bird escapes and lands in the canal...cwydro jumps in canoe and paddles to get bird, floating placidly...cat watches from shore....cwydro gets bird (in lobster net finally)...releases bird..cat chases bird....cwydro chases cat(screaming obscenities at cat, who cares not a whit)...bird flies into tree and looks down derisively at cat and cwydro (now late for work).

I have a squirrel story too, featuring the same damn cat.

[Pool Hall Ace]

3. Oh my, I love these stories!

You must post the squirrel story! :rofl:

[cwydro]

5. Oh dear,

I just realized there are TWO squirrel stories.

First off, back to the OP - NEVER use a bag...pretend it is an insect with the old glass and piece of paper trick...you know...you put the glass over the creature and then slide the paper under and then take the critter out and let it free. (I know, I'm weird, I don't kill insects). So with a mouse or in my case, a squirrel, you get something like a bathroom trash can and put that over the poor critter, then get a large solid STURDY (very important!) piece of cardboard and slide it under. Voila! You have a captured critter. Now quickly, but VERY carefully, go outside and let it go. Preferably out of sight of cats...(mine DO like to watch.) But this can very easily become deja vu if you are not VERY careful with the cat spectator stands.

[MichiganVote]

4. Well I'd loan you my male cat if I could. He'd have the mouse and the dog. Fearless.

[NV Whino]

6. Do you live at my place?

Oh wait, I don't have a dog, just three cats.

Been there done that several times over, including desiccated frogs, tailless lizards, unhappy snakes, and birds in various states of disrepair.

Who needs a television when you have cats?

[cwydro]

7. >>>

:rofl: ...Yes yes, lizards and snakes too. Except my male cat, (of squirrel and pigeon fame) brought me a LIVE snake...Of course, I didn't REALIZE it was live until I picked it UP....:hide:

[NV Whino]

15. Oh yes,

I wasn't talking about dead snakes.

The terrible twosome have been awfully interested in something under the bed this morning. I don't think I want to look.

Fortunately, Rosita is retired and just ignores all that stuff.

[hedgehog]

8. So the older cat brings in a mouse......

The young dog goes over and chases the cat. After a brief negotiation under the dining room table, the dog emerges with the mouse and goes to his den on the stair landing. My daughter and I follow him, and he is sitting there with the mouse running back and forth behind him. I try to grab the mouse, but I'm a little mouse shy. The mouse runs down the side of the stairs behind the dog pen. We crawl into the dog pen with a flashlight and locate the mouse, now running back and forth between the pen and the wall. Of course the dog is right beside us checking out the action. I go and get a plastic bag to cover my hand and come back. My hand is just a tad too thick to go far enough past the wires of the pen. I drop the bag over the mouse and my daughter tries. She gets her hand through, but the mouse, which we have both been watching, is gone. I look under the dog pen and find only a mummified frog. I don't even want to think about the frog. The dog and the little bitey cat start chasing something around in the office on the other side of the house. The dog emerges with the mouse (I hope it's the same mouse although I still can't figure out how it got from here to there so fast), trots into the living room and releases the mouse. The mouse runs under the couch and vanishes once again.










Sometimes I wish I drank.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. So you have two cats, the older cat and the "little bitey cat."

Which one got the mouse? And why is the little one "bitey," and whom does he bite?

[hedgehog]

14. Three cats, actually,

Sapa, the big orange DU cat, spends most of his time sitting on the dining room table or sleeping on my bed. Frodo is a black and grey tiger about two years old and she brought the mouse in. MJ, the little bitey cat is a tiger kitten with patches of red. She's named for Peter Parker's wife. MJ grabs people's hands and play fights with them, setting her teeth against the skin but not biting down. Hence, she is the little bitey cat.

[marzipanni]

10. My big cat used to bring live mice in at night, through the dog door

He had a peculiar low proud hunter voice which alerted me to get up, get a dish towel, and drop it over the mouse so I could put it outside, and keep the cat in. My dog Sally has killed two small roof rats. Other than tennis balls and cloth frisbees, whose "necks" she has broken repeatedly by shaking, she loves to focus on nocturnal rat-nibbling-walnut sounds in the backyard, or occasionally in a wall of our house.
If you can't catch the mouse,at feed stores you can get a plastic humane trap that the mouse can enter on a little ramp which tilts and closes the door as he goes to the opposite end and around the bend to get to the bait.

[davsand]

11. You got a free cat toy? I DO envy you!

Sorry, PETA folks, I was only joking...

One night I was sitting on the toilet doing--well--doing what people DO on there--when the cat comes thundering in the room in hot pursuit of a mouse. All 15 pounds of that cat were headed toward me at full tilt, and that poor mousie was running as fast as his little legs could go.

I let out a yell, and given the fact that it was a most impossible time to get up and leave the room, I looked for anything that can be used to ward off either a frantic mouse or a cat run amok. I finally end up with a tiny paper Dixie Cup in one hand and a toilet brush in the other. The whole time I'm shrieking for reinforcements.

Given the general ambiance in the room, no help is forthcoming, so I am left to defend myself as best I can. The mouse darts behind the cat box and the cat manages to run into his litter-box throwing ultra fresh "litter crystals" everywhere. I am reduced to yelling and cussing at the cat while trying to lean over and swat at the mouse with the toilet brush.

The Dixie Cup nor the cat were injured in the event, however, the mouse was apprehended the following morning. The toilet brush was a total loss and the cleanup of cat litter was an extended project.

Anyhow, the point to my story is that the mousie provided the cat (all 15 pounds of his thundering hunter self) with HOURS of entertainment up to the point of capture.

I was less than amused at the time, and I do understand why you might wish for a cocktail at times like this.

Regards!


Laura

[ThingsGottaChange]

12. What a great visual, Laura!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[hedgehog]

13. I'm just sitting here laughing and laughing!

That's wonderful!

[astral]

16. Good stories, but --

If my cat has a mouse I just want him and the mouse OUTSIDE until he is willing to come inside with -- NO MOUSE.

I don't worry about the mouse so long as he is not in the HOUSE.

I don't see the point in taking the mouse from the cat, that may be heartless, but hey, I live in a mice-free house because of a cat and I am pretty happy about that situation.