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Old July 21st 14, 11:41 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Christina Websell
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10 minutes ago Boyfie caught a mouse, brought it to show me and let it go
alive. He caught it again and let it go alive for the second time; he
rarely plays with his prey like this. It made a run for it and made it
under my kitchen trolley (I keep spare egg cartons and trays under there) so
I had to move them all. He caught it again but the silly boy is crouching
next to the trolley peering underneath with cocked ears and twitching tall
with the presumably now deceased mousie *in his mouth* !!
This is after insisting at 10.30 pm he hadn't had his 10 pm sprinkles
tonight (he had).
Hmm. It's bit worrying.
Either he is losing his marbles or it's two BCT's in just over an hour..and
I just checked, no mousie in mouth now and he's refusing to stop peeping
under the kitchen trolley. So make that 3.

Tweed





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Old July 22nd 14, 02:25 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
toci
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On Monday, July 21, 2014 5:41:43 PM UTC-5, Christina Websell wrote:
10 minutes ago Boyfie caught a mouse, brought it to show me and let it go

alive. He caught it again and let it go alive for the second time; he

rarely plays with his prey like this. It made a run for it and made it

under my kitchen trolley (I keep spare egg cartons and trays under there) so

I had to move them all. He caught it again but the silly boy is crouching

next to the trolley peering underneath with cocked ears and twitching tall

with the presumably now deceased mousie *in his mouth* !!

This is after insisting at 10.30 pm he hadn't had his 10 pm sprinkles

tonight (he had).

Hmm. It's bit worrying.

Either he is losing his marbles or it's two BCT's in just over an hour..and

I just checked, no mousie in mouth now and he's refusing to stop peeping

under the kitchen trolley. So make that 3.



Tweed


Maybe if there's one mouse, there are more. Toci
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Old July 22nd 14, 10:39 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Christina Websell
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"toci" wrote in message
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Maybe if there's one mouse, there are more. Toci


He caught it in the garden and brought it in through the open back door..
There are lots of mice out there but even he cannot catch two at once;-)
No chance of house mice here.









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Old July 25th 14, 03:14 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 7/22/2014 5:39 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
"toci" wrote in message
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Maybe if there's one mouse, there are more. Toci


He caught it in the garden and brought it in through the open back door..
There are lots of mice out there but even he cannot catch two at once;-)
No chance of house mice here.

I didn't have a cat at the time, but I once lived in a house where there
was some construction going on a couple of streets over. (New home
building.) This drove the field mice out of their usual habitat right
into the existing houses. My bag of cornmeal was eaten through; pretty
much any dry goods, in fact. The kicker was when I found one climbing
the shower curtain in my bathroom. I knocked it into the tub and
managed to scoop it into a shoe box and toss it outside. I'm sure it
came right back in. They find ways.

One night I was sitting in the den watching television when I saw
something out of the corner of my eye. There was a teeeeeeeeny tiny
mouse sitting on the fireplace hearth. It was so cute! It ran off
through a tiny hole in the panelling on the wall. I promptly blocked
that off.

Still, I couldn't have mice in the house. I set traps. In one night, I
heard the traps snap seven times in a row. It wasn't pretty nor was it
particularly humane, but I refuse to live with mice in the house.

Where I live now there aren't any mice. Marsh rats, yes. But they
don't come inside. The hawks and other predators catch them.

Jill
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Old July 25th 14, 03:23 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 2014-07-25 11:44 AM, jmcquown wrote:
On 7/22/2014 5:39 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
"toci" wrote in message
...

Maybe if there's one mouse, there are more. Toci


He caught it in the garden and brought it in through the open back door..
There are lots of mice out there but even he cannot catch two at once;-)
No chance of house mice here.

I didn't have a cat at the time, but I once lived in a house where there
was some construction going on a couple of streets over. (New home
building.) This drove the field mice out of their usual habitat right
into the existing houses. My bag of cornmeal was eaten through; pretty
much any dry goods, in fact. The kicker was when I found one climbing
the shower curtain in my bathroom. I knocked it into the tub and
managed to scoop it into a shoe box and toss it outside. I'm sure it
came right back in. They find ways.

One night I was sitting in the den watching television when I saw
something out of the corner of my eye. There was a teeeeeeeeny tiny
mouse sitting on the fireplace hearth. It was so cute! It ran off
through a tiny hole in the panelling on the wall. I promptly blocked
that off.

Still, I couldn't have mice in the house. I set traps. In one night, I
heard the traps snap seven times in a row. It wasn't pretty nor was it
particularly humane, but I refuse to live with mice in the house.

Where I live now there aren't any mice. Marsh rats, yes. But they
don't come inside. The hawks and other predators catch them.


For many years, I lived in an old wooden house of a type that was
generally reputed to have a problem with mice, partly because it wasn't
as solidly constructed as newer ones (and mice need a very small hole to
enter through) and partly because it was one of a number of row houses,
and even if I'd managed to find all the tiny holes in a very poor
foundation, I couldn't count on someone down the road having done so.
The previous residents had had constant problems with mice, and had
trays of poison everywhere. I got rid of all the poison and moved in
with my two cats - Mandy and Betsy, both now RB.

Mice are less stupid than I had realized. They almost never entered the
house afterwards (although God knows what they were doing in the walls).
There was never any evidence of droppings. Once I found the cats
harrassing a very scared mouse, which I caught and released. Once I
found half a mouse. Not bad for well over a decade in an area with lots
of mice!

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Cheryl
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Old July 25th 14, 04:27 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 7/25/2014 10:23 AM, Cheryl wrote:

For many years, I lived in an old wooden house of a type that was
generally reputed to have a problem with mice, partly because it wasn't
as solidly constructed as newer ones (and mice need a very small hole to
enter through) and partly because it was one of a number of row houses,
and even if I'd managed to find all the tiny holes in a very poor
foundation, I couldn't count on someone down the road having done so.
The previous residents had had constant problems with mice, and had
trays of poison everywhere. I got rid of all the poison and moved in
with my two cats - Mandy and Betsy, both now RB.

Mice are less stupid than I had realized. They almost never entered the
house afterwards (although God knows what they were doing in the walls).
There was never any evidence of droppings. Once I found the cats
harrassing a very scared mouse, which I caught and released. Once I
found half a mouse. Not bad for well over a decade in an area with lots
of mice!

Not bad at all! Mice are interesting creatures. If they can fit their
heads through an opening they can compress their bodies and just slide
right on through. I saw one flatten itself and crawl under the door
from my bedroom (in the aforementioned house) when I didn't think even a
cricket could crawl under that door. I was amazed.

OB Cats: I've read this is one of the things cats use their whiskers
for. They are sensors. Can I fit through here? If the whiskers say
no, don't go.

Jill
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Old July 25th 14, 11:01 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)
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jmcquown wrote:

Where I live now there aren't any mice. Marsh rats, yes. But they
don't come inside. The hawks and other predators catch them.

Jill


I used to relegate the cats to a screened porch at night - until one
bedtime when I found a little grey and white California fruit rat curled
up under the pillow on my night clothes! (If I'm going to wake up to
something warm and furry in bed with me, I prefer it be a cat!)
 




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