Cat's brought a mouse in!

[mickeyinthehouse]

So (not so dear)Cat has jumped through the landing window with a mouse (or rat??) in her mouth and ran straight under my bedSubsequently DCat has lost said mouse and I can now hear it scurrying about under my bed and behind my chest of drawers. It's 3am and I've got to be up for work tomorrow what do I do??

Get some cheese out!

Still upwhat do I do with the mouse once it's come to retrieve the cheese?

Yay congrats, you are now a mouse owner 😂

This is the fourth one she's brought to me today. Woke up this morning (yesterday morning rather) to one by the front door and one by the back, both dead. Also surprised me in the kitchen with another dead one at about 11pm. Does anyone need to permanently borrow her, she's a great mouser

I like mice too much. But it’s what cats do, the one loose in your house you do need to capture and release, or if it’s badly injured kill. Otherwise it’ll make its home in your bedding or grocery cupboards

She's probably found a nest.
Catch and release.
I came downstairs several times to mie scurrying round the kitchen, just in their nature unfortunately!

Send her to me. I have a whole mouse housing estate in my she'd and my cat is useless.
I can provide a basket and transport 🐺

This is why we don't have a cat flap anymore and keep windows on the latch. Dh once had to take apart a kitchen cupboard to get to a mouse. 'Darling' cat sits at the back door and I check around him thoroughly for wildlife before he's allowed in.
My friends cat once dragged a dead and very bloody rabbit through her house!

Have you caught a live mouse before? It’s not easy, they’re so fast and agile. My cat never kills anything, if he brings something in then it’s always alive - I swear he grins at me as he drops whatever it is on the floor and watches the fun and games begin as I then try to catch and release!

Best method I’ve found is using a large mug (I keep one in the animal supplies cupboard specifically for this purpose). Place mug over the mouse - use the largest mug you can so that you don’t risk trapping its tail. Then slide a large sheet of kitchen roll under the mug and with one hand grasp the roll so that it’s tight around the rim. Carefully pick the mug up and turn it right way up whilst still grasping the kitchen roll so that said mouse can’t leap up and jump out (speaking from experience!). Then exit house and release mouse - my cat is only able to be in the back garden, so I release mouse away from front of house and keep my fingers crossed that he doesn’t come back.

Cat normally sits in the spot where mouse was for about 30 minutes just looking around him. Takes him a while to accept that mouse is definitely gone!!

Chocolate, mice go crazy for chocolate

Cats do that all the time. The chances are the cat will lay in wait and eventually catch the mouse; you'll come down in the morning and find a dead one waiting for you.

Other than that, buy a humane mouse trap. I caught a mouse a couple of times in one of those, you have to be at home though otherwise the poor mouse will be frantic for hours.