UPDATED: B*stard cat brought a live mouse in: CAPTURED!

RandallFlagg

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!

4114Effects

Cheese is a bad bait for mice. They're actually not that keen on it. Use bacon or crumbled biscuits/crackers. Seriously.

Strat_a_tat_tat

Strawberry jam in a live trap has worked well in the past.

cj73

A whiskey tube works wonders 

Iamnobody

Get a 50p Spring trap from Wilko's load it with chocolate. Dead mouse almost guaranteed...

boogieman

Our cats used to bring all sorts of wildlife into the house. They sleep in the garage these days. Humane mousetrap with chocolate or peanut butter will soon get your little visitor caught. 

RandallFlagg

The traps I bought are pre-baited but I have added a dollop of peanut butter to one. 

There will be a Mousewatch update tomorrow

bbill335

Chocolate spread as bait. Put the heating on to wake them up and lure them out. 

hotpot

Our cat is the same, he brings mice in &  plays with them, some are dead some are alive & run off in the house, He brought us a bat this Summer & let the bloody thing go in the house.

ArchtopDave

I ceased to be bothered about my cats brining in dead, or live, wildlife years ago, and just accepted that ever so often there'd be something for me to capture and release. The list has included mice, voles, rabbits ( the commonest life form, as I live in the country) and a mole. There are bats living in my neighbour's roof, so I usually find a few get into my house each year!!

Rocker

The cat is contributing to the food stock in the house. Show your appreciation for this gesture and let the cat dine on the mouse. Best food for a cat is mouse. Not a lot of people know that....

IvanMC

Lol but that's ok! He'll learn how to hunt eventually. Mine brought a couple of live ones -not that tiny ones to be called mice but rats- some years back, when he was a kitten. Now he's 16, and I haven't seen a rat for ages. He also left me some slaughtered birds, a present which I never particularly appreciated.

Paul_C

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

boogieman

One of ours must have brought a live mouse in at some point. I noticed a stench in the kitchen and thought it was a blocked sewer or something. Eventually we tracked it down to coming from the radiator. The poor mouse had obviously gone up behind it to get away from the cat and then died. The radiator had slowcooked it, then it had bloated and burst. 

Corvus

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 : )

RandallFlagg

Same cat ( Bea) brough home a young Moorhen once, we saw her dragging it with it's neck in her mouth and massive webbed feet dragging on the ground as she struggled to get it across the lawn to the back door. We opened the door and she dropped in and it looked dead. cat lost interest and wandered off, young Moorhen jumped up and started running round the garden, looked hilarious, and bigger than I expected up close, it eventually flapped it's young wings and just got enough height to clear the hedge and head back to the pond over the common land over the back.

thermionic

We had a cat when I was a teenager who disappeared when he wasn't yet fully adult. My sister and I feared the worst because he hadn't been seen for a few days and he liked to go for walks along the railway line that ran below our estate. We eventually found him looking bedraggled and with scratches on his nose and in his fur, in a hole in some undergrowth at the far end of the garden. There were white feathers everywhere, and we reckoned he'd had a go at a seagull, bitten off more than he could chew, and holed up to lick his wounds and recover.

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. 

WezV

I remember once when my dad was coming home from a night shift.  There was some cheesecake in the fridge at home and as soon as he got in he started talking about having a bit quite excitedly, as if it was the only thing that had got him through the night.

he opened the fridge and there was a mouse sitting in the cheesecake staring back at him.

Paul_C

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.

Cirrus

A cat I used to have once brought a 30cm stick home. When she brought it in she was wagging her tail.

Emp_Fab

Dogs don't kill animals for fun then fill your house with the dying or dead.  Get a dog.