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(65,487 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)Marthe48
(17,018 posts)It's a gubmint robot. Spying on you
markie
(22,757 posts)"all creatures great and small" these cats have elevated
lastlib
(23,286 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 3, 2021, 11:46 PM - Edit history (1)
We had a mouse in a barrel we kept cowfeed in at the barn. It couldn't get out. Dad goes to the house, hand-carries the cat to the barn, puts it in the barrel with the mouse. Cat catches mouse. Jumps out of the barrel with it. Turns the mouse loose. Pats it on the head twice, and turns around and goes back to the house. "Go in peace, brother." Mouse went scot-free. A corn-fed, Grade A, USDA Choice Mouse, and the freakin' cat Lets. It. Loose!
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)Maybe the cat was too well fed!
lastlib
(23,286 posts)All the hamburger and roast beef she could eat.....corn on the cob.....apple butter....ice cream.........I guess uncooked mouse just wasn't her cup of tea....
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)and it is so much work.
housecat
(3,121 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 3, 2021, 07:40 PM - Edit history (1)
yup same phone number. The ad says one useless human pet to a good home.
unc70
(6,119 posts)KT2000
(20,587 posts)in the neighbors' yards and then brings them home to set them free in my yard.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Old Terp
(464 posts)Other than that, he's a great cat.
ShazzieB
(16,511 posts)Siberian hamsters don't have a long tail like that.
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)Too funny. The mouser is having a Stand My Ground moment. And the cats? Appear really confused and confounded.
Made me laugh out loud.
paleotn
(17,956 posts)We use to have a tabby named Hobbs. He was a stone cold killer. No playing. Just dispatching and presenting his handiwork to his peeps. Every time my better half screeched in the morning, I figured Hobbs had been on a "dispatching" spree the night before.
Delmette2.0
(4,169 posts)venusgirl
(4 posts)A Mother cat teaches her kittens how to hunt. If the cat is separated from the Mother before she has taught them then this is the usual response. They are lovely kitties!
burrowowl
(17,645 posts)dawn5651
(604 posts)dawn5651
(604 posts)OverBurn
(958 posts)I'd rather she not bring me anything, but cats do not mind very well.
She's a sweetheart other than being a prolific serial killer. Showed up on my back porch. Went from being afraid to come near, to now she follows me everywhere, sleeps on my bed, loves scratches and belly rubs. Stays in the house more and more but still loves the outside.
Kitty Kill List
54 Rabbits
42 Mice
15 Birds
6 Moles
5 Chipmunks
Warpy
(111,339 posts)but damned if s/he can figger out what.
The mouse is hilarious, just keeps teasing the cat.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)is also a stone killer. 5 years old, 70+ mice, 9 rats. Also three snakes, but she wasnt sure about them so I was able to let them go unharmed. Otherwise the nicest, most untroublemaking cat you can imagine.
Danmel
(4,924 posts)She lets blue jays steal catfood from her bowl. Doesn't care, makes zero effort to chase them away, much less have them for breakfast. It's pretty amusing.
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jmowreader
(50,562 posts)In our house we had a strict rule: no eating mice inside the house. And in St. Maries, pretty much everyone's house was infested with mice during the winter, so he caught something like ten mice a day and ate them all.
Morris would catch a mouse, kill it, walk to the back door, put his mouse on the floor, cover it with his foot, then cry loudly - he was orange, the loudest color of house cat - until someone would let him out. He'd go on the back porch, eat his mouse then cry to be let back in. Twenty or thirty minutes later..."Jim, go let your cat out, he caught another one."
For reasons that should be obvious, we didn't buy cat food in the winter. He couldn't have held it anyway. There was always a bowl of dry down for him, and it stayed full all winter.