mice, being left as presents by one of my cats.

[toxcrusadr]

I enjoyed your little story, very descriptive. I can relate, that happens at our house too.

We have to do a cavity check on one of our cats when we let her in the house. She's known for bringing presents inside, more than once she's brought in live critters.


When she brought in the first live mouse and let it go, my wife and I were running around the living room trying to catch it. Francis the cat thought it was great fun, she got the humans to play too.

In addition to mice, moles and the occasional sparrow, she's twice left bats outside the front door!

Ours captures young rabbits and carries them by the scruff like kittens. Once we let her in on a summer evening when we had guests over. She pranced through the living room full of people and down the stairs, squealing baby bunny hanging from her mouth. We all looked at each other stunned..."did you see that? Holy crap!"

Mine sits on the back of the couch and chews on my hair. I have little enough without her doing that!

Mine used to do that...but the chewing at times included the skull. :scratch2:

 

[Rodzilla]

if some of the mice did relocate,somehow or someway...it sounds to me like you have your solution already in place....the cat will take care of them in pretty short order,and being an "active" solution,probably faster than traps or any other method too...

 

[treserious]

if some of the mice did relocate,somehow or someway...it sounds to me like you have your solution already in place....the cat will take care of them in pretty short order,and being an "active" solution,probably faster than traps or any other method too...

yep.
she didn't even eat them.

just caught them and licked them to death.

 

[Sam Cogley]

Ours captures young rabbits and carries them by the scruff like kittens. Once we let her in on a summer evening when we had guests over. She pranced through the living room full of people and down the stairs, squealing baby bunny hanging from her mouth. We all looked at each other stunned..."did you see that? Holy crap!"

That's...weird... Does she kill them, or just carry them around?

 

[treserious]

if they survive, those will grow up to be some seriously skittish rabbits.

 

[JonL]

My sadly departed cat once, when pretty young, climbed a tree in the front yard and retrieved a hairless baby squirrel from it's nest and left it on the front stoop. I watched him do the whole thing. I understood and appreciated the sentiment but I was mortified nonetheless. He was a feral cat that we took in and he became a wonderful pet. We also took in one of his cousins but that cat just never warmed up to people and lived his short life in fear. He got some kind of bone cancer or something and died before he was 3.

 

[merrylander]

Our five ferals will not let us near them, we had to trap them the first time round to have them spayed/neutered. Now the county wants me to have them get rabies shots before they will issue license tags. I said fine, you catch them and I'll pay the vet. I am not going through that drop trap routine again.

 

[toxcrusadr]

That's...weird... Does she kill them, or just carry them around?

Sometimes we find a dead one, but it seems like mommy behavior too. We've tried to 'splain to her that they are not kittens and to let them be to ravage the garden, to no avail.

if they survive, those will grow up to be some seriously skittish rabbits.

Actually I've seen her make friends with rabbits in the yard (the surviving ones). Earlier this spring she would go out at dusk and wait by the wood pile for one to come out. Not full grown but definitely a teenager able to run and fend for itself. It would come out and they would sit there and look at each other. Then she'd make a halfhearted run at the rabbit, which would scamper away a few feet, then they'd sit and start over again. :scratch2:

 

[JimJ[VT]]

 

[Sam Cogley]

Sometimes we find a dead one, but it seems like mommy behavior too. We've tried to 'splain to her that they are not kittens and to let them be to ravage the garden, to no avail.



Actually I've seen her make friends with rabbits in the yard (the surviving ones). Earlier this spring she would go out at dusk and wait by the wood pile for one to come out. Not full grown but definitely a teenager able to run and fend for itself. It would come out and they would sit there and look at each other. Then she'd make a halfhearted run at the rabbit, which would scamper away a few feet, then they'd sit and start over again. :scratch2:

Sounds like the standard poodle my family had when I was growing up - she'd go out in the yard and hang out with the local deer population.