Nooo! How can I have mice with three cats?!

[CatKisser]

Snowers did a massive flamboyant pounce today behind the log basket and somehow caught a poor little vole. Didn't think voles lived indoors but hey. I couldn't get him to drop it so let him do the humane thing and polish it off.

But he couldn't even manage that. He dropped it and it has literally vanished. By tomorrow it will probably have had appalling vole babies.

Useless cats!!!

[cozietoesie]

Hah! As I think I've said before, a full marching band of mice could progress across the room and Seniorboy would only yawn. (I grant you that he's elderly but some cats are mousers and some just ain't.)

Has it occurred to you as well that maybe Scabbers is bringing them inside then getting bored and letting them go?

(It's also that time of year when outside animals start thinking of winter boltholes and coming inside.)

[Fluffycloudland77]

And people think cats can fend for themselves eh?. I'm surprised you haven't got three cats lined up intently watching to see if it comes out!.

[CatKisser]

Cozie my dad suggested that too about Scabbers. Part of me hopes that's right, and has brought dead voles and birds in for Olive so maybe he thought he'd treat her to a live one this time...! But equally, I do a f*** hole or three in the wall of my house (landlord's ideas of air vents.) so totally possible they're piling in for Winter.

fluffy they gave up disappointingly quickly. I'm really puzzled as to where it went actually!

[CatKisser]

Spoke too soon. Olive's almost dying of excitement down there! Poor little mouse! Excuse the mess and booze.

[CatKisser]

Back up's arrived.
Think I'm going to shut the cats away and see if I can get the poor mouse out and take him outside.
Siiiiiiiigh.

[Germgirl]

My idiot cat brings mice & rats in and then loses interest in them. This is how a rat managed to nest inside the back of the cooker. Which had to be replaced. At a cost of £700.
Bloody cats.

[aJumpedUpPantryBoy]

I bet he brought one in and it scurried off. TheNaughtiestCatInTheWorld does this. When they reappear she is delighted, sometimes she lets SmallDog help her with the chase.

[CatKisser]

A rat? That's horrific!! I grew up on a farm was horrified at the size the rats grew to. Loathe them.

Pantry - part of me wishes they'd just hurry up and get it. Feel a bit sorry for it. I'm not the slightest bit scared of mice/voles really and wouldn't mind him sharing my house...for a time! Can't move the bloody chest either as it's covered with four tonnes of alcohol from weekend bday party.

[cozietoesie]

The trouble is that you don't really know whether they're under there alive and fine and shortly to escape or injured and shortly to die. I'm not saying you have to move it right now but I'd keep sniffing around it. (That's how I found one of The Lodger's indoor targets - once it had been dead for a number of days I could track it down by smell.) You may have to move it eventually so - start drinking!

[CatKisser]

Oh Cozie - youve reminded me of a horrid thing.
Last Winter my neighbour came round for vodka dinner and Scabbers was upstairs. Suddenly there was a big bang upstairs so I dashed up quick. Scabbers had got in my wardrobe and retrieved the almost-dead starling he'd obviously put between my clothes as a midnight snack. Feathers and bird blood everywhere. :-(

You're right about the injured mouse. Ugh! Good excuse to tuck into that Tanqueray I was meant to be saving though!

[CatKisser]

Er why has "big bang" in my last post turned into a link to a shopping site?? Do I have a virus?!

[cozietoesie]

It's 'big bang' for me. Are you really seeing a link?

[Fluffycloudland77]

I think it's an auto link. Eg if I type //www.quidco.com it converts to a link but I didn't use brackets.

[CatKisser]

I did - it was a link to some shopping site....it's gone now though.

[Fluffycloudland77]

big bang

Testing.

[cozietoesie]

Is is a laptop you're using? I think I'd take a wander over to Geeky Stuff if I were you and post a thread there.

[CatKisser]

How odd, yes a laptop.Yours is normal, Fluffy.
Don't dare take it to the tech guy at school as it's a school laptop and I'm constantly on POF Mumsnet....

[cozietoesie]

That might just be a difficult one because they won't necessarily have given you admin rights then - so you may not be able to install some of the protection that the rest of us might have.

As I said, I'd wander over to Geeky Stuff and post a quick thread there just in case someone has come across this. I'll find you the link.

[cozietoesie]

Geeky Stuff. It's a Mumsnet board.

[cozietoesie]

big bang

Testing

[atticusclaw]

We never had mice in the house until we had cats, now a field mouse or vole is a regular occurrence. they bring them in and then lose interest.

My cleaner was here the other week and called me into the living room. The cats were both half snoozing on the sofa and less than a foot away from them a tiny field mouse had decided to join them in a snooze on my shag pile rug. I really should have taken a photo.

OO that has happened to me to on a post earlier today. I typed the world kind le and it converted to a link to am azon. Not a good step by MN.

[cozietoesie]

Worth a post on Site Stuff then atticus? (If it might be an MN problem.)

[CatKisser]

I have admin right because I guessed at the admin password, which was "password" haha. Interested to see it's happened to atticus too -I will head over to site stuff shortly.

That's SO funny about the poor little mouse though Atticus!!!

[CatKisser]

HAAA - Olive has moved her toy mouse right up to the gap of the chest of drawers where the mouse is hiding!
I think she thinks it'll lure the poor thing out!

[cozietoesie]

'Password' ? I give up.

But good for your purposes.