General Chat

Six months ago I took a cat into my mouse free home. This morning, I opened the cutlery drawer and there was a mouse in it.

Isn't the idea that you keep a cat (a cat employs you and honours your home with their presence) so that you don't have mice?

I am sure they move in and decide the home needs improvement so they bring in a few!

I had a cat who was a very good mouser, but I'm sure, sometimes he took a liking to particular mouse, brought it in alive, and let it live here :-0
I found one in my welly - I was about to put it on - and, another time, one with a nest, behind the washing machine! :-|

George brought a live one in once, and 'gave' it to me.
The mouse promptly ran into the fireplace (no lit fire), but also, the surround wasn't fixed to the wall, leaving accessible hiding places for the mouse.
Fortunately, Betty came along, and after a half hour 'tussle' - me with poker, Betty almost like a baseball player, paws cupped, I managed to get it to go her way, where she cornered it, and rapidly dispatched it :-D :-D

A friend of mine has a "few" cats...okay she is a cat lady can't turn a rescue cat away...and even she had mice this Spring but they stayed in the walls...she has a great picture of all the cats; and the dogs; sitting looking at just one spot in the wall !!

He does bring them in and despatch them at the foot of the stairs.

Even if he lets one go, I don't get involved because I know he is better at catching them than I am. There has already been a vole in and eaten this morning.

I think I will leave the cupboards open for him today. Well, he needs somewhere to store them doesn't he?

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My little git loves me so much he thinks I want live sparrows and mice

I have to rethink leaving the door open from the lounge to the back garden ( 1960,s house ) as he appears at my feet with a live offering !!

Sparrows I can deal with. I try to rescue and put out but mice are really a no no

I am petrified of mice or any tailed darty thing as when I was a youngster living in a Victorian house we had mice problems several times

I shared a double bed and bedroom with my elder sister

We would go to bed and then the scampering overheard would start. I was petrified that somehow they would come down the Victorian fireplace and get on me !!

Never got over my fear of them

I was out on sat for a 50th birthday dinner for my grandaughter in law. Cat wasnt coming in before I left so stayed out till I got home around midnight
Big fusses as he came in and then he went on his route to the kitchen .and he suddenly was tossing something. Bee hell he had a mouse in his mouth It was dead though and I opened the door and shussed him out mouse in mouth

But where did this bee mouse come from ??
He had bought one in the night before but I had managed to frighten it out the back door with him following iand me slamming the door shut
He was out all night because I wasn't letting him in just in case

Only saving though is he is a hunter so don't think any mice would survive indoors
It's field mice he rescues!!!

It's like Tom & Jerry <3 They're presents to the human

Scarlett brought a live bird home this morning
I managed to wrestle it off her and off it flew away :-D :-D

He is a bit of a tom and jerry

He bought in a live sparrow , poor littie thing got tossed and played with as it tried to get away . He stalked it behind the floor length curtains then as it tried to hide at the back of the tv unit

He so wanted that bird that he did a tom and jerry squeezing himself under the unit till his big bum couldn't compress even though his feet came out and he tried !!

Thank goodness a little while later I was able to throw a towel over the little bird and take it outside and release it under a bush

Bee thing is Mr Tibbs will play and agrivate his prey till he loses interest in it but I don't want dead or injured pressies

A couple of weeks ago I pulled out a very dead and dried up rat from unter the summer house.
Then last week I opened up a cupboard in the garage and there was a very dead and pretty dried up mouse.
We had a few mice in the garage several months back and had the pest control people in to lay bait, so that one may have been a victim or otherwise have chewed into something poisonus to mice in the cupboard. They do seem to go for the oddest things.
The bird food and dog treats are in mouse-proof (hopefully) containers but I still find droppings in odd places where there is apparently nothing to attract them.