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Hey he was bring you Christmas presents, santa mouse.
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Cute syndrome, Quick lets ban mice traps!
Messing about in my shed here a few years ago I realised there was a mice in there somewhere.
Right I said to myself you are going to get beaten to death, I instantly stormed my shed ripping out all the junk that was in there gradually working my way back to the corner I thought was the lair of my prey.
I reached for my mouse head cracking tool with vains popping out the side of my head with rage.
There, Right there in the corner was the prey I sought to murder.
Trouble is it was a tiny weeny little cute gingery mouse that turned my rage to jelly & turned me into a big girly, I went indoors got some food for it out my cupboard & put a nice big pile down for him/her to eat then I put the stuff back in my shed & forgot about it.
Right I said to myself you are going to get beaten to death, I instantly stormed my shed ripping out all the junk that was in there gradually working my way back to the corner I thought was the lair of my prey.
I reached for my mouse head cracking tool with vains popping out the side of my head with rage.
There, Right there in the corner was the prey I sought to murder.
Trouble is it was a tiny weeny little cute gingery mouse that turned my rage to jelly & turned me into a big girly, I went indoors got some food for it out my cupboard & put a nice big pile down for him/her to eat then I put the stuff back in my shed & forgot about it.
Hey Op! You live up the road from my OH's Mum's house (in Irlam lol) She has 6 cats and at least 3 of them are successful hunters 
Kills include: Magpies, Wood Pidgins, Rats, Frogs, Mice, Sparrows etc 
For a small fee, I can deliver one or more of said felines to your home to catch your little furry unwanted friends
Otherwise I can bring my Cat Woman Kitty - so called cause she has brought down 2 bats this year
Picture in sig lol lol
Kills include: Magpies, Wood Pidgins, Rats, Frogs, Mice, Sparrows etc For a small fee, I can deliver one or more of said felines to your home to catch your little furry unwanted friends
Otherwise I can bring my Cat Woman Kitty - so called cause she has brought down 2 bats this year
Picture in sig lol lol
Mice are not cute! (well, they may be but...)
Mice in the house will eventually eat your electrical wiring. Then you will have real problems!
It you are lucky it will simply be expensive, If unlucky your house will burn down! (And insurance Co's sometimes exclude rodent damage on the grounds that you failed to take reasonable care of your property)
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Drive a tank through the living room.
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The best bait is penut butter, it sticks to the trap so they have to get up onto it and bam! They can get chocloate off the trap without getting their heads under the trap.
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You can borrow my cat but he would most likely just be asleep with a family of mice sitting on him.
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Hey Op! You live up the road from my OH's Mum's house (in Irlam lol) She has 6 cats and at least 3 of them are successful hunters
For a small fee, I can deliver one or more of said felines to your home to catch your little furry unwanted friends
Otherwise I can bring my Cat Woman Kitty - so called cause she has brought down 2 bats this year
I'm not any kind of conservationist, but what's the thinking here for cat-owners, where their cat kills hundreds of animals every year? You just don't care?
I don't keep any pets BTW, so I'm not one of those dog-owners who hates cats since they can't save people from drowning. I'm just wondering how people balance that in their head, that their animal they are keeping for fun, kills loads of other animals, and not even to eat.
Not trolling, my bro has a cat, but it's flat-bound so doesn't kill anything, and I don't know anyone else who has a cat who I can ask this.
Cats are hunters, that's what they do and you can't stop them. Only reason they don't eat what they catch when domesticated is they simply dont have to, so can do it for fun (the evil little buggers ).
I'm not a cat fan btw, but they are only doing what they are genetically programmed to do.
).I'm not a cat fan btw, but they are only doing what they are genetically programmed to do.
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Cats are hunters, that's what they do and you can't stop them. Only reason they don't eat what they catch when domesticated is they simply dont have to, so can do it for fun (the evil little buggers
I'm not a cat fan btw, but they are only doing what they are genetically programmed to do.
Yeah I know, but I'm interested in what their owners think about the fact they are ultimately responsible for all the kills since it's their pet. Brits are supposed to be animal-lovers, so it seems contradictory to keep an animal which kills many others for no benefit.
Messing about in my shed here a few years ago I realised there was a mice in there somewhere.
Right I said to myself you are going to get beaten to death, I instantly stormed my shed ripping out all the junk that was in there gradually working my way back to the corner I thought was the lair of my prey.
I reached for my mouse head cracking tool with vains popping out the side of my head with rage.
There, Right there in the corner was the prey I sought to murder.
Trouble is it was a tiny weeny little cute gingery mouse that turned my rage to jelly & turned me into a big girly, I went indoors got some food for it out my cupboard & put a nice big pile down for him/her to eat then I put the stuff back in my shed & forgot about it.
Amazing, you big softy you!
I am an animal lover - as is my OH's mum (more so than me tbh, anti animal testing etc) but I also recognise nature at work.
The bats that Snoopy has brought in this year were - surprisingly - unharmed and they were released back into the wild not long after I had rescued them from her
Trust me when I say I don't like her catching Bats - but short of keeping her in all day every day (which would be mean on her cause she is used to going out) there is not a lot I can do. She is a rescue cat and she will not wear a collar - again I have tried with her.
In regards to the birds and mice she has caught - most she has eaten the majority of them, again nature in play. And tbh, there are plenty of little creatures around. The 4 or less a month she catches are not going to do much to the population...
My OH's mum's cats really do hunt/ kill/ eat. She will only rescue the hunted creature if the cats bring it in and its still alive. But if it is already dead and the cat is having a munch then she will leave the cat with its "kill" and then clean up after is had its fill. Seeing that there are 6 cats in her house hold, there is a hierarchy and there is a 'head' cat - Frog. If he brings a kill in (he took down the wood pidgin) then he will eat his fill then its the turn of the other male cat, then the females in order of age...it was very interesting to see imo
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We saw one last week but it hasn't been seen since - the trap still has food in it. I hope it's gone.
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Slight over-estimation there. I have three cats and have to deal with a dead present but only once or twice a month. My three between them (let alone on their own) kill nowhere near hundred of animals over a year but anyway.
Whilst I describe myself as an animal lover, I'm also a naturalist. Unlike humans, the rest of the animal kingdom doesn't have the same reasoning ability to understand and work with the highly complex moral system us humans adhere to.
Furthermore a cat has far more need to retain it's hunting skills more than a human. When a cat finds itself homeless or lost it can't pop into the Job Centre and get food vouchers or eat fruit & veg instead. It has to hunt to survive.
