Five cats! I have 5 cats and a mouse just ran over my foot!

[Liberal Veteran]

:grr:

Lazy bastards aren't doing their job!

[UTUSN]

1. You can name them all "Garfield"!1

Once I was driving on a country road and from out of the underbrush came a cat with a mouse in its mouth, the mouse's tail dangling with the cat's trotting. The cat had a blissfully happy look on its face until it saw the vehicle approaching and got a startled/puzzled look as it assessed whether this was a problem or not.

[murielm99]

9. That is funny!!!!

It is not all that different from a time I was driving home late at night. I slowed down and then braked because I saw eyes glowing in the headlights. First a mouse, or some type of rodent with a mouse-like tail, ran across the road. Then came the cat, chasing it. My daughter saw it too, and we both laughed out loud.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Re-read your conctact with them: Mice may be "extra".

There'll be some fine print as to what you have to provide in order for them to add mousing to their daily regimen...

[Liberal Veteran]

3. I know, sleeping 18-20 hours per day, the little darlings must be exhausted.

And I looked at one of my cats when it happened and said "What the hell? You spend 2 hours a day chasing dust or sunbeams in the middle of the room, but you ignore the mouse?"

[LisaL]

4. If my cat encounters a mouse I fully expect him to run the other way.

He is a persian.

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. They likely expect you to take care of the annoying mouse.

It's interrupting their sleep, you know.

[Recovered Repug]

5. Maybe they're Vegan.

:D

[pokerfan]

22. Maybe they're Buddhist.

[Liberal Veteran]

26. Well they do spend a lot of time "meditating".

:crazy:

[Lisa0825]

6. LMAO!

I used to have one cat with bad eye sight, and I had mice every winter when they came in looking for warmth. She would sit there and look at the wall when she heard them scurrying inside.

Now I have 7 cats, and not only do I never so much as hear a mouse, I also never find a live bug.

Yo just need 2 more.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. My cat is the best spider catcher on the planet...who knows what she'd do with a mouse

I always know when there's a spider in the house. My cat will site perfectly still in a spot and just...wait.

[kimi]

8. THEIR job??

Humph. You clearly have no clue how the cat - human relationship works.

YOU are expected to catch the mice, skin them, stew them, and offer them up in a fine Bearnaise sauce on Royal Copenhagen china.

Gold chargers under the plates, of course. And a nice Chardonnay on the side.

My goodness. Expecting them to catch their own mice will lead to mayhem, riots, and a distinct demarcation in the Cat - human continuum.

(So I've been told. By my cats.) :)

[murielm99]

10. My house cat, pictured below, is a terrible hunter.

When she catches a mouse, we have to keep an eye on her. She chases it around until it stops moving, and then walks away, like a spoiled child who breaks all his toys and then becomes bored. We have had to figure out where some of her dying mice have gone to give up the ghost. They decompose under various pieces of furniture and stink up the house. We once had to throw away a chair because we could never get rid of the smell.

We have six cats who live outside in the corn crib. Fortunately, they catch most of the mice before they ever get into the house.

[kimi]

11. Yep, that is quite the stench, isn't it?

Back when we were stationed at Misawa Air Base in Northern Japan, we left for a couple weeks - on the "Freedom Bird" - to visit family during the summer. Left 2 cats at home, and a young airman at the base was supposed to feed and water them while we were gone. He accidently left the back door open on one of his first visits. Unfortunately never notified us of this little hitch.

Long story short, we came back and found out about all this. The first clue was the unholy stink in the house. When she got out, our de-clawed kitty (no, I didn't do that, she was already de-clawed when I adopted her) had gone outside regularly, into the deep dark Japanese woods to kill mice and other critters and then she brought them back to the other cat, considerately depositing said corpses in the food bowl that they shared.

Oh my gosh. It was horrific. These dead, maggoty, stinking critters in my kitchen. (And Japanese kitchens are small - it totally ruined lots of stuff. That smell.)

I was quite impressed that old Tabitha was able to take out the rodents, being declawed as she was - but ugh.

[murielm99]

21. It is indeed a terrible smell.

I have gone away on business a couple of times and left my husband in charge. He never checks traps or checks on what the cat has been doing. I have found things in traps days later because he is so clueless. The smell is foul.

[jobycom]

12. Ask yourself how many they must have caught to be so full they couldn't eat that one. nt

[spinbaby]

13. I think our cats farm mice in the basement

They keep coming up with these teeny mice they bring upstairs and there seems to be an infinite supply of them. Maybe it's time to clean the basement.

[meow2u3]

14. The best mouser kitties are the ones taken in as strays

My personal experience. My Ruby, who I rescued off the streets as a stray (she was kicked out of her house as a kitten) was a good mouser--I actually saw her with a dead mouse in her mouth when she was 1, before she had Max. I don't know about her mousing skills now; she's quite a bit rusty because she's been kept indoors in a mouse-free environment.

Last year, Max caught and killed a rat!! Now I see why God makes cats as big as he--to use as ratters! If you need a mouser/ratter, you can borrow Max. He's a big one the size of a small dog ;)

[Demoiselle]

16. We have one cat who can catch 'em. She doesn't know how to kill 'em.

Twice she's sashayed across the lawn with captured little things in her mouth.
She dropped the chipmunk at my feet. It stood up on its hind legs, chittered angrily at her and shadow boxed. Then it ran into a window well.
I scooped her up, took her in the house, went back outside and tilted a small branch into the deep well so he could use it to get out if need be.
Next time I checked, he was gone.

Then there was the little bird she also dropped at my feet. It lay there quite still, but didn't look gone, so I gently put it on a high fence post so I could look for a shoebox. (We have a wildlife sanctuary near us that has repaired broken birds before.) I turned around three seconds later and the bird had flown.

We call her the Might Hunter and giggle and titter quite openly behind her back.

[NV Whino]

15. I'll lend you my guys

They seem to bring in a rodent a day. I'm never quite sure what they are because all I see is the innards.

[Brigid]

17. And that is one seriously brave (or stupid) mouse.

I would think he would steer clear of any house with five felines, lazy or not.

[tigereye]

18. aha!

:rofl: (sorry!)

[LynneSin]

19. Are you overfeeding them?

Why would they catch mice if they have plenty of yummy food available to them.

[Ineeda]

23. Two cats, no mice == but lizards don't stand a chance

in my house. If an anole gets in and I don't beat the cats to it to rescue it, it's a goner. Whichever cat gets it, gets to keep it, despite growls and chasing by the other. Joey, the Coon, plays with it until it dies (of exhaustion or terror, I don't know.) If Vito, the Tux, gets it, it's devoured quickly, sometimes leaving behind its still-twitching tail. Yuk.

[susanr516]

24. Be careful what you wish for

We have four cats. I once woke up in the middle of night to find one of them playing with a wounded mouse on the bed with me. On the bed.
:scared: :scared: :puke: :scared: :scared:
Took a long time to get back to sleep that night.

[mythology]

25. My cat

would run in terror from the mouse as dust bunnies scare her. Most of the cats I've been around haven't been mousers. I did have a cat who loved to attack teddy bears, the other cats and the dogs, but she got out and picked a fight with something too big for her. The image I have in my mind is that she walked up to a bear and smacked it on the nose like she would with a teddy bear.

[DinahMoeHum]

27. They may have caught it and brought it in as a trophy

for your viewing pleasure.

:evilgrin:

[BlueIris]

28. Ooooh, we have a mouse in the house, too.

Cats can't catch him, which I find hysterical. And mine aren't lazy--in fact, they're efficient killers. But this one little mouse just keeps getting away.