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I've just had a gift from one of the catfinks of a mouse.
She brought it in live but seems to have issues with live things, it seems to freak her out. She took it up to the spare room and sat it on the pillow on the bed and they just looked at each other for a while before little mouse made a bid for freedom bless it.
Managed to get the cats out and shut the door but the mouse is hiding behind the bed.
Any tips for getting mousey safely out of the house without any risk of me getting bitten or scratched very very gratefully received!
She brought it in live but seems to have issues with live things, it seems to freak her out. She took it up to the spare room and sat it on the pillow on the bed and they just looked at each other for a while before little mouse made a bid for freedom bless it.
Managed to get the cats out and shut the door but the mouse is hiding behind the bed.
Any tips for getting mousey safely out of the house without any risk of me getting bitten or scratched very very gratefully received!
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One of my cats used to do this but it was in my bedroom not my spare room. Fortunately I like rodents. I used to use a deep tupperware tub, put a pile of books next to it as stairs and leave a trail of boring food up to it with something more exciting in the tub.Then I'd prop the lid open with a vaselined matchstick and leave it. The mouse would eventually be tempted, go in the tub and knock the lid down after it so it was trapped and I could release it outside.
oh B00 my old tom cat was a terrible one for bringing gifts.
one time he came through cat flap growling (it was always our first warning of a gift he didnt want to hand over)
he looked at us and his mouth was stuffed full, with a little bird leg sticking out. we held him down and he spat a tiny baby bird onto carpet. But still his mouth was bulging. We tapped him on nose and out he spat a 2nd baby bird.
But his mouth was again still full,another tap and a growl and a 3rd was spat out.
Eventually he got mightily peed off with us when the 5th and final bird was depositied on the floor. Sadly only one was alive and didnt make it through the night.
one time he came through cat flap growling (it was always our first warning of a gift he didnt want to hand over)
he looked at us and his mouth was stuffed full, with a little bird leg sticking out. we held him down and he spat a tiny baby bird onto carpet. But still his mouth was bulging. We tapped him on nose and out he spat a 2nd baby bird.
But his mouth was again still full,another tap and a growl and a 3rd was spat out.
Eventually he got mightily peed off with us when the 5th and final bird was depositied on the floor. Sadly only one was alive and didnt make it through the night.
I keep dog food in the garage and just scoop a bowlful out every day for Casper to eat. I'd scooped some out one day and put his bowl down in the kitchen. When I went in later the dog had eaten his food, a dead mouse must have been in it, and he'd laid it in the middle of the kitchen floor.
I now have special big airtight containers to keep his food in......
I now have special big airtight containers to keep his food in......
I found a mouse in my tub of meal worms the other morning. It must have got in there the morning before when I fed the birds and before I put the lid firmly back on. He was so fat he must have been eating meal worms for 24 hours. I took him out, but, looking like a tennis ball on little legs he couldn't walk and just sort of rolled backwards and forwards precariously. Slight lack of oxygen wouldn't have helped.I put him under a hedge and kept an eye on him. He eventually managed to walk away and looked reasonably OK. Must have had a huge stomach ache!!
Somewhere out there is a very fat constipated little mouse, brain damaged from oxygen starvation.
Good luck Jenna! My cat brings in live mice and voles and then sits on them. I think she is a bit muddled up and thinks they are her babies.
Somewhere out there is a very fat constipated little mouse, brain damaged from oxygen starvation.
Good luck Jenna! My cat brings in live mice and voles and then sits on them. I think she is a bit muddled up and thinks they are her babies.
All is not going quite to plan lol :)
Went up and was peering down the back of the bed trying to work out why I could hear movement when the little black lump I was peering at seemed pretty still, was pondering whether to nudge it gently to see if it was still alive until actual mousey appeared from under the bed looking at me as if to say "what are you doing" then ran away and I discover what I thought was traumatised mousey appears to be a black sock...duh!!!
So mousey is alive and exploring!
Went up and was peering down the back of the bed trying to work out why I could hear movement when the little black lump I was peering at seemed pretty still, was pondering whether to nudge it gently to see if it was still alive until actual mousey appeared from under the bed looking at me as if to say "what are you doing" then ran away and I discover what I thought was traumatised mousey appears to be a black sock...duh!!!
So mousey is alive and exploring!
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