I had noticed that it looked like we had a mousie in the pantry. There were signs that things were getting chewed into. Well, last night, actually about 4am this morning, I heard a lot of cat activity in our bedroom. I suspected there was a reenactment of a scene from The Hunger Games going on, but I decided not to get involved. BooBoo usually just chases the mousies and they get away, but this morning mousie was DOA on the rug. Luckily I did not step on its well fed little carcass.

I felt bad for the mousie, and wish it would have just stayed outside, but I was also glad that maybe my pantry is safer now. Hopefully I don't see any of mousie's little friends.

BooBoo earned her payroll check with that one.

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You did thank BooBoo for her gift of food for you?

Good kitteh! Mighty huntress!

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You did thank BooBoo for her gift of food for you?

Good kitteh! Mighty huntress!

Of course! Since she didn't seem to like the taste of mousie, she got an extra kitteh treat this morning.

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Is "little friends" a euphamism for mouse @#$%&?

"The Mouse Police... never sleep". Good Kitty !

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Is "little friends" a euphamism for mouse @#$%&?

Ha, ha. Actually, I am hoping that mousie didn't birth a litter of little mousies.

I didn't notice any mousie droppings, yet, but I haven't looked really hard either. Sort of hoping if I ignore them they will go away.

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"The Mouse Police... never sleep". Good Kitty !

"Just doin' my job Ma'm."

You're lucky.
Malibu leaves me a half a mouse.

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I woke up one morning and found a rat tail and scalp on our doorstep, a gift from our cat. By my best estimate, the rat was about 2/3 the size of our cat, and he's a BIG cat. I'm not sure what freaks me out more:1) there are rats that big around my house 2) my cat could catch,kill, and eat it

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Nothing to see here, move along.

Max leaves me the head.. He eats the rest. Blech!

What he used to REALLY love is to bring a totally live mouse so "we" could chase it around and catch it "together"... He still doesn't get why I didn't enjoy the hunt as much as he did.

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My dad's cat Chester used to bring me dead moles. Chester would eat everything else he caught, mice, chipmunks, etc, but he did not have a taste for moles and would offer them up to me, when he was at my house for a visit.

I once put the "present" out by a tree, it was left on the doormat, and he found it later and returned it for me. The next time, I put Mr. Mole in a zippy bag and deposited him in the trash. I miss Chester.

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When we got our first cat as a couple, we learned that we had mice (or that mice were attempting to move in, at any rate) when one morning I walked into the kitchen and found three dead mice lined up in front of the refrigerator. It would be a rather cute story except for the fact that I "found" them by stepping on them in my bare feet.

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Max leaves me the head.. He eats the rest. Blech!

What he used to REALLY love is to bring a totally live mouse so "we" could chase it around and catch it "together"... He still doesn't get why I didn't enjoy the hunt as much as he did.

Yep, sounds familiar. I was chasing a chipmunk around just last week.

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When we got our first cat as a couple, we learned that we had mice (or that mice were attempting to move in, at any rate) when one morning I walked into the kitchen and found three dead mice lined up in front of the refrigerator. It would be a rather cute story except for the fact that I "found" them by stepping on them in my bare feet.

Oh yuck! I was really glad that the little mousie was on my husband's side of the bed and that neither of us stepped on it in the dark.

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Years ago, as a youth (yeah I was one, once) i worked at my father's golf driving range and we had a cat named Duchess. As we lived next door sometimes the cat would wander over, and i gave her a piece of myHershey bar a couple of times (didn't know it was bad for them then). She became an addict. She'd catch a mouse or vole, bring it down there and drop it by the counter and meow. I'd give her a piece of chocolate and she'd leave me the mouse. Smartest cat we ever had, tho she had substance abuse problems.

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When our kitteh was younger she would amuse us by killing rats, coming over to us while we were outside, and tossing them up in the air repeatedly as if she expected they'd magically come back to life when they hit the ground.

Now that she's almost 20 she's down to hiding in the pappas grass and smacking the fool out of chipmunks as they come bounding by.

Ou cat totally ignores mice. We had a 4-5 last year, she never bothered.

I even caught one on a glue trap, it was stuck, trying to get away and she just walked on by like it didnt even exist.

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Darn chipmunks are FAST in the house, ain't they?
Cute though...


$tevie;

Try finding just the head.... when it gets stuck between your toes. I could be YouTube famous if I had video of me shaking my foot to dislodge the dismembered mouse cranium from 'atween my toes... but alas, Max didn't know how to work a camera.

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Oh, lordy, that sounds so gross!

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"The Mouse Police... never sleep". Good Kitty !

I love that song. The whole album, in fact.

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When we got our first cat as a couple, we learned that we had mice (or that mice were attempting to move in, at any rate) when one morning I walked into the kitchen and found three dead mice lined up in front of the refrigerator. It would be a rather cute story except for the fact that I "found" them by stepping on them in my bare feet.

Oh yuck! I was really glad that the little mousie was on my husband's side of the bed and that neither of us stepped on it in the dark.

A cat we had when I was a kid left a poor little dead mouse in my mother's bedroom slipper during the night. It definitely got my mother's attention in the morning.

Normally she'd leave them in front of the the door to the upstairs for us to find when we came down in the morning.

I caught one Monday night and one Tuesday night after such a long dry spell that I thought the batteries were probably dead . . . I knew they trued to get in in the fall to stay warm but I guess they also try to get in in late spring to stay cool.

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I caught one Monday night and one Tuesday night after such a long dry spell that I thought the batteries were probably dead . . . I knew they trued to get in in the fall to stay warm but I guess they also try to get in in late spring to stay cool.

My mousie was looking to poach my chocolate and my sesame seeds.

I saw evidence of both.

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