Cat brought in Live mouse

pigpen

I want to know how they catch bats.. I think my cats can fly!!!

Butterflies are particularly fun too apparently.. though they don't try to get moths which terrify me.

Mine bring stuff home then yowl until I go see what they have brought..

We had a rat one time.. but I think it was someones pet .. and twice Cracker broke into pigeon ofts and brought home his prize.. my living room looked like a feather pillow had exploded. We had a live blackbird and robin recently... why are they so dirty? they leave nasty smears on my clean windows.. ggrrrr

flower24

Wish mine would bring them live, last summer there was a dead mouse or a shrew in our yard every flaming morning He did bring one in and drop it and it ran off so I ran outside to try and get him away from it so it could escape but he picked it up and ran away with it

flower24

We've had a bat as well, they live under our guttering and a load of the babies fell out don't know whether they were still alive when they fell or not

Bunny

I think my two are in the amateur ranks next to some of the above cats and their efforts, I'm not going to try and encourage the progression to professional.
We have bats around here, but they stay in from around 8pm onwards (the cats that is, not the bats)

amszephyr

Zephyr, my girl cat, frequently used to bring home 4-5 live mice a week: much more interactive and fun than the toys in the house, I suppose. I have 2 humane 'catch-and-release' traps I use but best of all is a plastic storage tub from the kitchen: once the tub is thrown over the mouse (you get more accurate with practice and square ones are good if the mouse is cornered by the skirting board), you slip the lid beneath it, click it shut and release in your neighbour's garden. This way I like to think the mouse has a small chance of escaping before my cat realises what happened and goes on the prowl again.
I'v also nursed baby birds back from a traumatic visit to the house in the cats' jaws. The most sad one was a baby mouse I nursed back from an extended chase inside my cottage and released it, only for my naughty boy cat to slip through the back door when I returned and gobble it up almost instantly. Equally traumatic was a mouse I caught and, in the act of releasing it, I accidentally threw it into the garden wall (10ft tall) and killed it.