General Chat

I heard Betty (cat) playing behind me - between me and the kitchen - I presumed it was a hair tie she was playing with (her favourite 'toy').
She stopped.
Then started again, in the kitchen.
She's only gone and caught a mouse (thankfully now dead), but so fresh there are blood trails where she's 'played' with it.
As I wouldn't want to discourage her from this useful pastime, I shall now have to wait until she comes out of the kitchen (minus mouse) to dispose of it :-(

Lucky you :-(...could be worse she could have played with it and not killed it but left it in your bed

True - but Betty rarely comes upstairs - and never goes on my bed.

George (another cat) brought one in alive once and let it go. It hid in the fireplace.
George (being male) disappeared after a few minutes.
Betty came to my rescue, we spent half an hour trying to get this poor mouse out of the fireplace (me with a poker, Betty 'on guard' to catch it)
Eventually it made a run for it - and Betty killed it with the first bite.

Never bored with a cat are you :-D

Bored? No.
Peed off? Many a time. :-|

:-D

Thankfully mine little terror leaves his outside and only plays with his catnip tous inside. Have buried my share of birds over the years.

My friends Siamese cat Penelope use to bring live grass snakes in through the cat flap & leave them in the Kitchen for him - transparently she would round them up if they moved too far from where she wanted them to be.

I would have run screaming from the house hate the things

Gizmo's favourite thing to play with is sadly blue tits which he brings in alive and then invariably lets go. The whole family gets to play catch the bird.

Tabitha - you have grass snakes - lucky you :-D
I have slow worms - but the cats were discouraged from an early age from catching them. It's the only thing I would take off them and say 'No' to.

Tawny - I'd imagine a live mouse is easier to catch than a bird :-0

We know when Gwyneth brings in a mouse, the meow changes pitch, if mouse is dead she usually plays with it before attempting to eat it - Yuk. I try to get into the kitchen and tell her to take it outside which she often does. We don't get many live mice.

It was my friends cat who had the Grass snakes - they lived on the downs .

i would run a mile if i saw one - luckily I dont get to see slow worms either as they send me into a fit too - anything that wiggles along the ground & is big.

Shelley Rose - your cat is called Gwyneth? :-D :-D :-D

Tabitha "anything that wiggles along the ground & is big"............ :-0
Not much I can say to that.......... :-D :-D :-D :-D

maggiewinchester yep my cat is called Gwyneth (oh calls her many other things lol) she's a rescue cat and came with the name, she was 4 yrs old when we got her, I didn't have the heart to change her name, it really suits her (I'm welsh anyway). :-)

:-D :-D :-D :-D