Useless cat brought a live mouse in 2 days ago and proudly let it go. We chased it from one room to another and it went under our gas fire in the lounge. We staked it out to about midnight and could see it at the back of the fireplace on the marble effect plinth but every time we tried to get it it ran up into the fire surround. Gave up went to bed.
No sound all day, but last night around 9-10pm we heard a scratching sound in the lounge ceiling, it's somehow worked it's way up inside the cavity wall, into the void between downstairs ceiling and upstairs floor, through the cut out for the gas fire flue no doubt and we heard it move across the ceiling into the kitchen.
Put some cheese out last night went to bed and some of the small blocks are gone, though one of our cats eats cheese so we don't know if it was the mouse or not.
Just got 2 Big Cheese live catch traps and put them around the fireplace and will see how go tonight. I expect it will sleep all day and get active again tonight.
Useless bloody cat!
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a mouse is nothing, my ex-missus's cat (who died last year and was too old for such things when he was here) once caught a duck - imagine that being let loose in the house
Mice aren't too bad but that hiding/copping it/stink thing is bad news... We've had live rats, birds and snakes but a squirrel was the trickiest, they're effin fast and good at jumping. Got him mid-air in a towel : )
My sister had another cat who used to bring live birds into the house, more than once she had to phone my dad to come over because she'd come home from work to find a panicked bird flying round the living room and banging into the window. She came downstairs one morning and saw what she thought was half a rubber snake, probably a toy from the young child next door. No, it was a real snake, presumably the other half had been eaten.
he opened the fridge and there was a mouse sitting in the cheesecake staring back at him.
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I once walked into a darkened lounge first thing in the morning and half awake, and stood on something cold and soft with a bare foot.
I turned the light on expecting to find cat poo trodden into the carpet only to discover I'd stood on a (dead) fish, pilfered from a neighbour's pond.
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