Love to eat those mousies!

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Mousies what I love to eat.
Bite they little heads off.
Nibble on they tiny feet.
Klibben


Well this morning DH calls up to me that we may have a mouse in the house.

WHAT do you mean we have a mouse in our house?

Well, Cougar is staring at the bottom of the fridge and his tail is whipping back and forth. I think there is a mouse.

Unlike the cartoons of yesteryear with women standing in heels and chairs, I am unafraid of mice. Horses. Grain. Mice.

So DH leaves for work and I leave Cougar staring at the bottom of the fridge.

20 minutes later said cat brings mouse up to the office as a gift to the "food lady".

I go downstairs to retrieve a suitable container to scoop up the small but cute rodent.

Rodent is gone.

Cougar and Shiloh are now focused on the linen closet.

I open the linen closet door.

5 minutes later I am fighting the nearly feral Shiloh over a dead mousie as I can't leave the house and face what I'll return to if I don't get the poor mousie's dead body.

Fight off Shiloh. Ditch dead mousie.

All in a day's work.

Good kitties! I guess they've earned their keep for a while longer.

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

All that and ExOps. Wow, are you super woman or what?!

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

Mouse

Well, I wouldn't be standing in heels on the chair, but I would definitely be on either the chair, or the table......Actually, most days I would be in heels. Yup, it wouldn't be quite like yesteryears, but I would be in heels, standing on the chair.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Speaking of mice, is there any truth to the comment that Walt Disney was afraid of them ? I had an uncle who was a boxer and he was scared to death of mice.

[IreneLF Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close IreneLF]

EEEwww Lawren, but good kitties.
Had a similar thing here years and years ago, can relate.

[billymach4 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close billymach4]

Have not yet had the pleasure!

I would love to see one of my little lions to pounce on a mouse! Has not happened, probably never will but one can only hope.

[Hoc Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Hoc]

Growing up, I used to live in a rural area of Hawaii, and mousies making their way into the house was an almost daily occurrence. I could tell because our dog, Kaina, who (she was part shepherd, part poodle, part collie and part cocker spaniel) was about the best mouser I've ever known, would have a sparkle in her eyes and would be fixated on the linen closet.

I would get a yardstick, and run it along the top of the closet, inevitably causing the mouse to leap out. Kaina would jump into the air and normally catch it midair and kill it. Once she missed, and the mouse landed into the toilet, where Kaina promptly went "bobbing for mousies."

No fear of mice here.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

Jeff is retired now, but in his day he was a killing machine. Just follow the links on the left of the page for his known kills. Who knows how many other prey he handled but that didn't get recorded.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

Can't say that I'm sorry to hear that Jeff is retired. I'm sure that the bird community would agree.

[kbletzer Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kbletzer]

We get an occasional field mouse (due to construction in the neighborhood). I'm usually pretty good at trapping the buggers with the sticky pads but the last one was particularly tricky and I had to use those little poisen squares (oh how I wish hubby wasn't deathly allergic to cats!) anyway, I forgot about the poisen squares when BOO BOO the hamster got out of his cage earlier this week!

I was running around the house in the middle of the night trying to remember where I placed them all so poor Olivia (age 8)wouldn't wake up to a dead hamster.

Got the poisen, got the hamster (little bugger...just took a few walnuts).
That cage is secure now!
K

[kbletzer Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kbletzer]

We get an occasional field mouse (due to construction in the neighborhood). I'm usually pretty good at trapping the buggers with the sticky pads but the last one was particularly tricky and I had to use those little poisen squares (oh how I wish hubby wasn't deathly allergic to cats!) anyway, I forgot about the poisen squares when BOO BOO the hamster got out of his cage earlier this week!

I was running around the house in the middle of the night trying to remember where I placed them all so poor Olivia (age 8)wouldn't wake up to a dead hamster.

Got the poisen, got the hamster (little bugger...just took a few walnuts).
That cage is secure now!
K

I spelled poison wrong!

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

A Southwest airlines flight took off 6 hours late this week because of a mouse on board- the Stewardess was terrified.

[kbletzer Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kbletzer]

A Southwest airlines flight took off 6 hours late this week because of a mouse on board- the Stewardess was terrified.

They said that they were afraid the mouse would eat through the wiring!

[MargeS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close MargeS]

My Tiger cat was an agressive hunter and climber through his 14 years (lost him to kidney failure)
He would proudly bring home and onto the deck, anything he could get his paws on, and right away. Birds, mice, snakes, bunnies.... this made me very sad (for his catch), but it is the nature of the beast. BUT I learned if I responded to his pride right away, I could bop him lightly on the head and whatever he was holding would take off when he released his hold! He never learned NOT to bring his catch home, so many things survived because of that habit....

[billymach4 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close billymach4]

Jeff is retired now, but in his day he was a killing machine. Just follow the links on the left of the page for his known kills. Who knows how many other prey he handled but that didn't get recorded.

Go Jeff! Natural Born Killer.

For what it's worth cats are wired to hunt. After all they are really wild animals masked in warm and fuzzy outfits