What a Lovely Cat

[handscombmp]

Got back from work today only to find that my cat had left my a gift inside the house. A small live mouse. The pesky cat.
So what to do. Well first i put the cat in the room with the mouse in and the cat looked at me like what do you want me to do about it. its your problem now. So that idea failed. I then tried to trick it into a cardboard box with cheese and food but that didn't work. So my thing is what to do know before i can go into town tommorow and get a (humane) mouse trap.
Is ther anything i can try this evening to stop it making a mess.

[MadduckUK]

I then tried to trick it into a cardboard box with cheese

cartoons have so much to answer for

[jackvdbuk]

your lucky, my cat sometimes brang home birds that were still alive but barely moving!

[joshwa]

The humane mouse traps don't work from my experience... in fact we even had the pest control people out with the small boxes full of mouse poison - the mouse ate it - and survived. We call him little mousey now.

[handscombmp]

The humane mouse traps don't work from my experience... in fact we even had the pest control people out with the small boxes full of mouse poison - the mouse ate it - and survived. We call him little mousey now.

Hmmmm. Perhaps i should by two. A humane one and a more traditional one. Why the cat just doesn't want to catch it. It's fast asleep now (spends the whole day like this ) and won't budge. Grrr

[Tumble]

they will be more tempted by chocolate than cheese - you might try that...

[handscombmp]

they will be more tempted by chocolate than cheese - you might try that...

I did try to use other food like biscuits raisans but i didn't try that. I'll go do that.
'Come here little mousey. I have something for you'

[Lucio]

I just let the cat finish the damn job.

[Lanky123]

Not just your cat, mine did that as well. Also does the half dead bird thing. Fortunately mine was persuaded to continue the fun and catch it. The family joining in as if it was a team game seemed to help.

Do you actually know where the mouse is...I know they're nippy little gits but it's not impossible to whack a box over it if you're lucky. This looks like a decent idea.

[steve threlfall]

I then tried to trick it into a cardboard box with cheese

Your cat?

[handscombmp]

Do you actually know where the mouse is...I know they're nippy little gits but it's not impossible to whack a box over it if you're lucky. This looks like a decent idea.

I'll try that. It hasn't fallen for the chocolate yet.

This is my cat most of the time


or if it bothers to catch anything it catches the wrong thing (apart from this time )

[xiphrex]

This has happened to me a handful of times and what I do is I get a broom and then I chase and scare the mouse out into the open. Then I direct it out the door. The poor thing though looks very scared when it comes out in the open and usually runs to the corner trying to escape my wrath.

Alas I dont have the heart to kill it and this whole procedure can take 2 hours...

[handscombmp]

Alas I dont have the heart to kill it and this whole procedure can take 2 hours...

2 hours i could be using to be on Hexus

It was about to eat the chocolate but as i got up to get ready it ran off. At least the cat seems involved know.

[sammyc]

At least the cat seems involved know.

Try and save mousie if possible plz, it's less than 24 hrs if you get a humane trap tomorrow after all (and they work fine in my experience - white chocolate did the trick in no time). Just shut it in if you can put up with it, not going to make that much mess in one night.. I took mine out to nearby fields, it looked very happy that I'd spared it's little life it was a heartwarming moment. (Am I moving you to tears yet? )

[handscombmp]

Try and save mousie if possible plz, it's less than 24 hrs if you get a humane trap tomorrow after all (and they work fine in my experience - white chocolate did the trick in no time). Just shut it in if you can put up with it, not going to make that much mess in one night.. I took mine out to nearby fields, it looked very happy that I'd spared it's little life it was a heartwarming moment. (Am I moving you to tears yet? )

That cats stopped being involved know. gone back to its life of sleeping. Planning to get a humane trap tommorow hopefully but i'm on Standby tommorow so it would be just my luck to get called out. I don't really wan to kill it as it's done nothing wrong

[SiM]

cartoons have so much to answer for

I lol'd... that's exactly what I was thinking