Originally posted by: Carbo
Oh, yeah! Well I found half a mouse on my front lawn last week! That's a real cat. Think I'll go stroke her right now.
You too? Mine was delivered to the driveway about a month ago. Half at the bottom of the driveway, half at the top. Not our cats though - we keep ours inside. They suck at catching mice - because they lack the ability to use a flashlight, or move heavy furniture, which it seems, is the only place the mice here go. The trap in the cellar does well - dried fruit wedged in the trigger, with peanut butter on it does the job. They try hard to get the fruit out - snap, right on the head.
If our cats do catch anything though, the first task is to get ahold of the growling cat, who doesn't want its new prize/toy taken. Take it outside, get it to let go of the mouse, then use a BB gun (only gun I've ever owned, and I don't need anything more powerful) to shoot the petrified little thing. I always feel bad doing that but...well, they don't pay rent, and they don't read eviction notices.
Our one cat won't eat rodents anymore - he ate a shrew once, which are venomous. He got kind of sick afterwards - fever, and just sitting in the same spot for a long time, even for a cat. After that, he won't eat anything like it - just play with it. Until someone takes it away, or it lays down from exhaustion.
He's very gentle and just plays with them. I managed to catch the mouse in a trash can when my cat was batting it around the floor, and I dumped it out in the yard of an empty old house about a block away. It was in shock, but a few seconds later it hopped off pretty quick...think it'll come back?
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