Dead mice/ voles/ wee hairy things

Annpan · Post: # 68155Post **Annpan** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:27 pm

Cat now wipes them out at a rate of 1 a day... lovely presents though they are, what should I do with the carcass? Is the wheelie bin the best resting place for the remains?

She is a mouser... this is her job, and very good at it she is too.

Thurston Garden · Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:28 pm

I stand on the doormat, hold them by the tail and heave them into the woods. 9 times out of 10 I am left with the tail in my hand.

chadspad · Post: # 68165Post **chadspad** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:33 pm

My cat brings them in thru the window every morning too. The other night he was playing with something under the bed, then crunching it - couldnt stand the noise so had to investigate and it was a baby rabbit! I was gutted, it was so beautiful. Then I thought about the feat that this tiny cat had endured to bring this rabbit easily bigger than him up onto a rainbutt, over a roof and into my window just for me - bless him!

Dont know how to answer your question tho lol - he always eats his prezzies!

glenniedragon · Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:53 pm

My bad lad Balloo is a ratter, I have had to wipe down a blood smeared catflap as he has tried to get them through- thankfully he hasn't yet suceeded! we back onto a riverbank, where the rats dwell, so I hope they take the chucked carcasses as a warning! He had a phase of bringing one daily, but thats slowed down a bit now (or he's eating them)

My Dad's feline killed a rabbit for him, while he was gardening he went to get his shovel to deal with it...while he was gone a couple of Jackdaws came to argue about the carrion, when Dad got back he had a dead rabbit AND a dead Jackdaw to deal with!

kind thoughts
Deb

Thomzo · Post: # 68168Post **Thomzo** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:23 pm

I also get one a day. I do chuck them in the bin at the moment but I'm not sure if this is the best thing to do.

Perhaps we ought to start a 101 uses for... thread

Zoe

baldowrie · Post: # 68177Post **baldowrie** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:11 pm

If you have rats down at the riverbank I would not throw the dead ones there as it will encourage more.

My cat is too greedy and eats all his stuff!

Milims · Post: # 68188Post **Milims** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:03 pm

A cat of mine once managed to swipe a pheasant that next door had hanging in their garage. He dragged if down their back steps, across the garden, over the fence, across our garden, up our back steps - but couldn't fit it thru the cat flap!! Talk about all effort and no return!! Our present cats have taken to killing and eating their prey on the old lady next doors step - she's not awfully happy about the blood bath so we have to check every morning and spread lots of pepper!! Can you really believe that this is a brutal killer??

By milims, shot with W810i

red · Post: # 68192Post **red** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:44 pm

mine catches daily

sometimes he asks for food, and i put it down.. he sniffs it and stalks off in disgust (I'm not buying anything more expensive!) and then he comes back with a mouse as if to demonstrate what I should be providing. why dont they make mouse flavour cat food?

the worst is when he lets them go alive in the house... thats the opposite of being a good mouser!

but mostly he crunches them up, just leaving the entrails.... ew

still we had a rat population here when we first moved.. and they have gone now.. moved away i suspect...

SueSteve · Post: # 68210Post **SueSteve** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:31 am

We get the occasional present, but they tend to be larger birds like seagulls and pigeons!!
Our old cat- Strider RIP ( knocked down by a car) used to bring home sausages and burgers, we have no idea of where they came from!!! We used to joke about something he prepared earlier, and that he cooked them on next doors bbq LOL!!
One day he brought us a living collared dove!! It was slightly injured.
He was meowing as if to ask us to come and see (did a lassie thing!!), so we did! He wasn't interested in eating it, it was as if he was asking us to help it. We phoned the RSPCA, who came out, we explained... they said it looked like it had been injured by another bird, and was definately not injured by the cat!! They took it away and said that it should be ok!!

ina · Post: # 68240Post **ina** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:48 am

Thurston Garden wrote:I stand on the doormat, hold them by the tail and heave them into the woods. 9 times out of 10 I am left with the tail in my hand.

That's what I used to do - complete with the left tails - they went into the field next door, where I'm sure they increased the fertility once rotted away!

Milims - your cat needs at least two screens to display itself on my computer - is it just me, or is the photo that large for everybody?

Nice cat, though. I love little "tigers"...

Milims · Post: # 68254Post **Milims** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:54 am

Sorry Ina- I think it really must be that big - My step son took it with his phone then down loded it onto here but I don't know how to make it smaller!!

Thomzo · Post: # 68323Post **Thomzo** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:18 pm

Your cat is sooo cute.

Please don't read the rest of this post if you are squeamish or have just eaten.

I came downstairs this morning and decided to use the downstairs loo only to find a drowned mouse in there.

It's about the only one that I haven't found half eaten on the laundry room floor. I've given up washing the blood off the floor every morning.

Zoe

Annpan · Post: # 68328Post **Annpan** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:44 pm

Well, I am going to keep on sticking them in the wheelie, I don't fancy picking them up and swinging them by the tail

We had a cat once called Hot-Rod (very placid, giant cat who looked stoned all the time)
He once brought a live magpie into the house which he had caught through an open window in the middle of the night. - he was inside and couldn't get out but some how he must have swung his paw outside and caught it.
I woke up in the morning to this almighty sqwuaking down stairs, it was petrifying, then we realised what it was. Needless to say after that we made sure all the window were shut at night after that.

Milims - thats the biggest cat I have ever seen... yes it does look like a brutal killer

(only joking... very cute)

ina · Post: # 68363Post **ina** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:24 am

Thomzo wrote: I came downstairs this morning and decided to use the downstairs loo only to find a drowned mouse in there.

Now how on earth did it get in there! Does your cat normally wash her catch before eating?

When I was in Australia (long time ago - working on a farm), the lady of the house found a dead mouse in the toaster one morning... Fortunately before she'd put the bread in and turned it on!

the.fee.fairy · Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:49 am

I've found dead mice in a box outside - i'd put out the rubbish, and amongst the rubbish was a box of liqueur chocolates (they were vile - even i couldn#'t eat them). The mice obviously took a liking for them, ate them and ended up dying from alcohol poisoning.

I can think of worse ways to go...