Crap!!! One of my cats just brought me a "present" -- a LIVE mouse!

[SeattleGirl]

She set it down under the coffee table, and I managed to get a gloved hand around it, but then it got away from me. Now, it's hiding under the couch! And Katie Cat? Went outside, the little brat. I'm not squeemish about mice, but I really don't want one running around the house.

[reformedrepub]

1. Hit in the head

with a shovel.....Problem solved.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Ewwww! It would squish all over the place.

Besides, the shovel won't fit under the couch.

[reformedrepub]

8. Well

there ya go, lift up the couch and DROP IT!!!

[reyd reid reed]

3. Yeah, but then she's gotta clean up the resultant mess

My cat used to bring her toys in alive...she'd drop 'em under the dining room table and then I'd have to catch 'em with one of those big plastic cups, slap a magazine over the top and take it outside.

The cat had to stay in after that, though.

[reformedrepub]

7. MIne brings me all

kinds of stuff..Hes a killer!!!

[reyd reid reed]

9. Heh...we started to watch when ours went outside

and then made them come in through the garage. Until I stepped on one of their 'gifts' in my bare feet at 2 a.m.

Now the cats pretty much stay inside, period. They wanna play? Beanie babies. They don't squish when you step on 'em.

[SeattleGirl]

10. Ick! You STEPPED on one????

:scared:

[reyd reid reed]

11. Stepped

*in* one would be more like it...


Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww


:scared:

[reformedrepub]

12. Now what were you

doing in the garage at 2am in "bare" feet?? I bet that wasnt all that was bare......:evilgrin:

[SeattleGirl]

13. "In" one?????

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww is right! :scared:

[grasswire]

4. get a metal bowl or a cardboard box

Then flush the critter out and drop the bowl/box over it. Then you can slide a piece of cardboard underneath, take the whole thing outside, and voila.

[SeattleGirl]

5. So far, I haven't been able to get the critter out from under

the couch.

[grasswire]

6. it could be gone already

Or it might be up inside the couch.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Can it wait until tomorrow?

Then you can pick up a few humane traps and set 'em out.




Poor li'l mouse. :cry:

[SeattleGirl]

16. I don't want to hurt the mousie. I just want it out of the house.

That's why I tried to pick it up, but it got away from me.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Guess I've been lucky

All the live ones Lucy's brought me were either stunned or li'l bitty ones that were slow.



Mousie is sorry for causing you trouble. :cry:

[SeattleGirl]

23. Aw, what a sweet mousie!

Thank you, mousie!

[pokerfan]

20. I hope you were wearing gloves

They are rodents and they can and will bite.

[SeattleGirl]

22. I was definitely wearing gloves.

Don't want any rodent bites!

[speedoo]

15. A birthday present!

What a loving cat!

[SeattleGirl]

17. But she didn't put a bow on it!

:cry:

[jrandom421]

26. Just think...

Nothing says I love you more than a dead mouse dropped into your open mouth at 2 AM

[murielm99]

19. We had one of those "presents"

under the couch, and we didn't know it. The couch started to smell, and we did not know why. The damn thing died in there, and we had to get rid of the couch.

But the most fun was when kitty brought us a live present when my daughter was a toddler. My daughter took the live mouse away from kitty, and I freaked.

[SeattleGirl]

21. Yuck! I am definitely going to keep looking for that mousie!

Katie Cat is back at her post, in front of the couch, waiting for the mousie to come out of hiding.

[NMMNG]

24. Wasn't that sweet of her?

You should feel honored. ;-)

[benny05]

25. Mice don't bother me

Except they may have rabies..