The mystery of the dead mice

[hedgehog]

So, I keep finding a dead mouse next to my desk in the morning. (It's actually a number of different dead mice, not the same one over and over.) The fur looks matted, like the mouse was carried in a wet mouth. Aside from that, there's not a mark on it, so I suspect its neck was broken in one bite. My mittel spitz (He's two sizes up from a Pomeranian)tends to stand guard over the mouse, but then, he also stands guard over bones and other treats when he's not hungry.

I have three cats, two of whom are young enough to be mousers, but they don't hang in the office.

So the question is, who is leaving me mice: the dog or one of the cats?

[Arkansas Granny]

1. That's a good question. My dog kills mice as well as my cat. If I find

the dead mice outside on the deck I know it was the dog that did it. The cat always leaves hers on the dining room floor, just outside the kitchen door.

[Jokerman]

2. The mice in your house have entered into a suicide pact.

They mess up their fur just to try to frame the cats.

I have often found this to be the case.

:crazy:

[marzipanni]

3. I'm going to put my bet on your mittel Spitz

I caught a small roof rat in a Havahart trap and it lived in a cage in the back yard for a while. Our border collie loved her job of accompanying me to give the rat some oats and peanuts, but one day the rat escaped like a flash, and in that flash the dog grabbed it as it leapt off the table, gave it a shake and dropped it. By the time I zipped around to that side of the table the rat was on the ground, limp as a rag. C'est la mort.