My stupid STUPID cats have brought in a mouse guest, presumably for tea.

[sibelian]

Stupid cats!

They bring mice in but don't kill them, simply depositing them on the floor and mewing, and wanting attnetion and praise. As soon as they let go of the mouse the mouse runs under things and they can't get at the mouse! Through overconfidence and a desire to play they are INCREASING the house's mouse population! There is one now living permanently under the washing machine! I've seen it wandering out looking for it's dinner in the evening and picked up the stupid cat and pointed it at the mouse and the stupid cat doesn't even see it ! ! !

Now my cats have lots of mousey pals to play with indoors!

Gr.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Cats can never have enough friends................

[LynneSin]

2. This is why I have adopted a feral cat

My Evita lived 3 years on her own in the wilds of Middle Delaware so for her, small critters are dinner. Nothing gets out of my house alive including, unfortunately, the neighbors pet hamster that escaped.

The downside, mind you, is after 8 years she still doesn't trust me and is the least adorable cat one could ever own.

[sibelian]

3. In a sense I'm ... kind of... jealous....

I love cats and I actually quite like being around the snooty ones. I used to spend a lot of time at home alone with my very first cat - Polly. she was amazingly snooty and never EVER said hello or let you stroke her. Not at all like my curent pair who are big softies. But Polly was very beautiful and, despite being unfriendly, quite often she and I would sit as I worked alone on something and I might catch a very *very* quiet purr escaping her. She was very skittish and I felt quite honoured to have her around and she was much more calming than Hamish or Harry (current cats - boys). And sometimes, very rarely, I would hear a quiet *quiet* purr at the foot of my bed in the middle of the night and she would settle down on my bed to sleep.

Also, not one mouse in the house. And she did rats, too, also she was known for killing birds - big ones. Once she brought in a gull...

What does Evita look like?

[LynneSin]

4. Here you go

Evita is on the left - she's got medium length grey hair and I believe 2 different color eyes (one is green and the other is copper)

Since she has come into my home she is totally indoors. She panics when she thinks someone is putting her outside. I can't even get her into the carrying case to get her to a vet. She's lived on the streets and knows a good life when she has it.

But in her time she has killed a bat, 2 mouses, a hamster and 2 song birds. BTW that was while living totally indoors. Not sure how the Bat got into my house, but the songbirds she ripped a hole into the screen and would grab them with her paw - just fricking amazing.

[sibelian]

5. Evita's a beauty

It looks liike she has a lovely coat.

Who is on the right?

[freshwest]

6. Well, that's just outrageous negligence on their part. Mine always brought dead mice. Yummy!

[sibelian]

7. I should sue. But I can't!

Neither of my cats have bank accounts! Damn slackers.

[freshwest]

12. Adopt a Jack Russell terrier. They're considered terrorists by the mice I've interviewed.

By the way, your... ahem... cats are a bunch of wussies.

[sibelian]

13. They're not wussies, they're OVERCONFIDENT.

My pusscats have challenged you to a duel!

[freshwest]

14. They can't jump this high. So there!

:woohoo:

[sibelian]

15. No fair! I can't see how high and you might be CHEATING.

Send photos.

[freshwest]

17. No pix, internex. But I'm in a high rise. And it's a secured building. Mwuahaha!!!

[sibelian]

18. hmph

well my cats jump higher than your tall tales so ner!

[Demoiselle]

8. Maybe your cats haven't mastered the killer bite...

I have a slightly loony cat named Monsoon who has, thrice, proudly born a captured creature in her mouth across our lawn to me, muttering great "Look what I've got for you" mrrrows at me as she approaches. She has dropped them at my feet. One was a small bird, who was stunned but clearly alive. I put Monsoon in the house, then picked the bird up gently, put her up high out of reach, and she flew off after a minute or so. The second trophy was a mouse, who fled into a nearby basement window well. Again, Monsoon was tossed into the house, and I leaned a wooden plank into the well and the mouse eventually climbed out to safety. The third captive was a chipmunk, and I swear to you that when Monsoon laid said chipmunk at my feet, the tiny rodent stood up on its hind legs and batted at Monsoon with his forepaws, before he skittered off to safety. Monsoon clearly never mastered the crunchy breakneck bite that cats do (usually!) quite efficiently.
I have kept Monsoon inside for a long time now, I usually don't let my cats out, but she was quick and shifty and insistent for a while, so she had a bit of time to perfect her lack of hunting skills.
Thank goodness, she never brought a friend inside!

[sibelian]

11. She sounds lovely

and probably far more genuinely useful than my stupid pair. Both of them can kill when the mood takes them, and they'll sometimes eat the mice but mostly they just invite guests in! ! !

I wonder if she has killed without your knowing, though...? Cat's are in fact less likely to bring home dead things, I was told...

[Demoiselle]

19. She may well have managed to actually kill and eat something..

But we never got a carcass delivered to our front door during the time she was outside. We have one feral cat living outside in a heated cathouse (yes, heated, I'm every cat's dream servant)
and she has gifted us occasionally. And we FEED her too! Monsoon might be her sister. Or her daughter. It was definitely Chinatown under our front porch for a while thanks to the rascally Tom who installed his harem there. We managed to spay neuter adopt all but Sir Thomas Gray, we have another five cats in the house, all kittens of Outside Feral, who is known as Nicole Kitman because of her strawberry blonde coloring. Yes, happy cat freak here. And yes, thank you, Monsoon is actually lovely. She's named for the rainstorm she turned up in as a bitty kitten howling on our porch (pre-harem.)

[Sabriel]

9. Better that than a tidy line of beheadings

Beasley used to line up 5-6 heads on the front step for us to admire. Ick!

[sibelian]

10. Oh, they do that too

mostly leaving the decapitated heads on the hall carpet in the dark for us to step on barefoot...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Used to have a cat who'd bag chipmunks and eat the heads.

Then she'd leave the bodies on the front steps.

Ack.