My Cat just captured a mouse and brought it in

[Zuni]

I let her out for a minute so she could play in the snow. I leave the door open, thinking she would just run back in. She does, with a small grey mouse in her mouth. It is still alive, but in shock. I put on a gardening glove and take it outside. i feel sorry for the poor thing but have nowhere to keep it. I dug a whole in a flowerpot, put the mouse in and then covered it with leaves to keep it warm.

I just checked on the mouse. It was already dead. :(
I am mad at my cat, the cold blooded killer.


I was joking about the cold blooded killer part. Some here took it seriously, so i decided to correct it. it was a joke.

[Maple]

1. So what are you waiting for?

Bake and serve already!

Ahem.....that's what cats DO.

[Archae]

2. You're applying human standards to an animal.

Your cat is a predator, who was just doing what is normal for it to do.

It's not a "cold blooded killer."

[Zuni]

14. I know

I was just joking.

[Archae]

18. Ok.

It can be a little jarring though, seeing your "kyooote widdle kitten" hunt down and kill something.

[Dookus]

3. naw...

don't be mad at kitty. Just doing what she was born to do. I hate when my cats do it, too, but I can't get mad at them for it.

[Limbought]

4. She was bringing you a present,

cause she loves you.

[xultar]

7. My cats used to bring me lil creatures as gifts and

leave them on my pillew...EU

[Zuni]

15. I know

she always brings me things, like socks

[corarose]

5. My Ramona could break a mouses neck in a second

She use to pile that little mouse bodies on top of each other and she was a very odd cat for doing that.

We didn't even know we had mice until one day her dad Garfield had a foot sticking out of his Persian mouth and I picked him up and shook it out so that the poor mouse could get away and the minute that the mouse fell to the floor Ramona grabbed it and killed it within a second.
As a joke I use to call her Trap.

She brought the mouse to you as a gift.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

6. Oh, please.

She's a cat. It's a mouse. There's a little thing between them called the food chain. Your cat was just doing what comes naturally to her, and you can bet the mouse understood that, even if it didn't like it.

Cats might make great pets (sadly, thanks to my allergies I'll never know this firsthand), but all the affectionate nuzzling in the world doesn't change the fact that you're sharing your home with a ruthless predator.

[Zuni]

17. I know about Cats and carnivores

they are hunters by nature. I was just kidding.

[Don_G]

8. She Loves You

Just following her instincts and - because of the love you have for her - it was her gift to you.

[LARED]

9. Only a mouse?

My wife's two cats drag home rabbits, squirrels, mice, blujays, moles. One day I'm expecting a small child to show up on the porch.

[Zuni]

19. my old cat

I had when i was growing up used to bring back all kinds of things. Once, when I was ten, he brought a headless squirrel into the house. Me and my mother were afraid of it, so we called a neighbor to get rid of it.

[Flaxbee]

10. We're renovating, live in the woods, and

apparently have disturbed the wee mousies that live in our walls... and it seems we have one very determined mouser. Problem is, she catches them, brings them to me, looks me square in the eye and drops the little suckers who then scamper down the hallway, into the closet, into the bathroom, wherever they can escape. She never bites them (at least not hard), she's just a "catch and release" kind of girl.

It's natural. Not pretty, but natural. Our primarily-outdoor girl brought me a chipmunk gift the other day. She is NOT a catch-and-release huntress, the poor chipmunk was thoroughly dead.

[Don_G]

13. Smart Cat

It's not like she's taking on a Polecat attitude-to-odor.

[Kamika]

11. You should really reward the cat

Its great she caught a vermin.. you shoudl give her candy or something..

When our cat was alive we rewarded him ALOT whenever he caught one.. but yelled him out when he had a bird..

It wwas pretty cute.. he always tried to hid the birds and came with the mouses

[put out]

12. I had a cat, he would catch a mouse.

He would catch it outside, and bring it in gently. Then, when it had recovered from the trauma, it would run off to join all the other mice, and have a party, find love, and make many babies. The cat was running a sanctuary for rodents; a respite, a shelter. It sure as h*** wasn't a monastery. I should have applied for a grant. The cat would have, but he was illiterate.

The eating was good, though, for the mice. It was free and it was mine.

[FDRrocks]

16. It prolly died of shock.

I chased a mouse around the house for like 2 hours trying to put it back outside. I got it, put it on the ground, it walked like 1 foot, then just died. :(

[Raenelle]

20. I read that, when they bring us kills, they are trying to teach us to hunt

That's what momma cats do for their kittens--kill, then bring the dead animals to their babies. It's a sign that you cat thinks you are a very bad hunter, she loves you, and she is trying to teach you to hunt.

[NJCher]

21. the mouse that came to dinner

the fact that you're sharing your home with a ruthless predator.

Well, hey--if you're sharing your home with another human, you're sharing it with a potentially ruthless predator. The average cat is a better person than the average person. Strictly MHO.

One night we were doing some fine dining with the candles, several nice wines, five-course meal. In comes our kitty with a mouse in her mouth, which she puts down right on the dining room floor. I remarked, "I think I'm going to ignore this until dinner is over." I continued feasting.

My husband decided not to ignore it, however, and went over to lift the couch, where the poor mouse had taken refuge. He wanted Mitzi to get it and take it back outdoors. But when he lifted the couch, a bird flew out!

She'd been a busy kitty that day.

And so much for the fine dining for the evening.



Cher

[SheilaT]

22. Several years back

one of my cats kept on catching baby rabbits and bringing them inside the house. Then she'd look at me with the "Well, go ahead, finish it off" look on her face. I'd capture the poor little darlings and release them outside. Killing is HER job, not mine.

We stopped letting her go outside very much, and now there will be rabbits cavorting in our back yard, she'll see them through the window and get all excited, and when I let her outside she just stares at them as if she can't quite remember what they're good for.

[democracy eh]

23. My dog just caught a fly

not quite as gratuitous as the mouse

but she is currently tormenting it on the kitchen floor, nudging with nose and batting with her paws. quite a sight, full grown blonde husky mix playing with a incapacitated insect....

update, now being eaten...

...gone

where she finds them and how she catches them I will never figure out. That fly should sit well in her belly on top of the package of smoked salmon she stole off the counter earlier today.

[TreasonousBastard]

24. Maxine was a superb hunter...

and ate most of the mice and voles, but left the birds for me. By the time the birds got to the house, they were usually so broken I had to finish them off-- no way could they survive.

So, eventually Moe shows up, and he was the greatest, friendliest, cat ever, but a bit clumsy for a cat, and a lousy hunter. But, he was twice Maxine's size, and all muscle. They tended to get along pretty well, though. Most of the time.

Max would come back from the hunt and Moe would be waiting for her.

Max didn't keep her little treasure for long.