to think a dead baby mouse shouldn't cause a breakdown?

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Got a lodger in May, a female teacher in her late 30s. Lovely person who said she had always had cats and missed them so would look forward to living with the 2 here.
huge garden which she loves and the cats obviously have a cat flap.
2 days ago one of the cats bought in a dead baby mouse it had killed.
I got rid of it and apologised and saidit happens only a few times a year as both cats lazy.
however lodger has had a complete meltdown, said she can't eat or sleep and is not able to concentrate at work.
I'm at a bit of a loss, I know it's horrid but not that bad for someone who has had cats?.
She now wants them.shut in the kitchen when she is home.
Much as I like her I think she would be better somewhere else?.
She has been crying and shaking Tec for 2 days?
Aibu?

She sounds like a fruit loop

YANBU. I hate when pyjamacat brings me a present but that's one of the things to expect when living in a cat's kingdom. She sounds rather hard work.

Yanbu!! Tell her your not shutting your cats away if she's that uncomfortable she can go elsewhere. She sounds like she'll be a pain in the arse. How long has she been living with you?

eh? I think she needs to get a grip if she has had a meltdown because of a dead mouse. cats catch and eat mice... its a fact of life.

God she sounds hard work.
She does know that it's a jungle out there???

Blimey.

I thoughht my nan was overreacting when her cat caught a rat and she made go round and prune all the buses and sweep under the sheds in case there was a nest.

She got over it when she was satisfied that there was no nest and the cat was catching the nest elsewhere.

YANBU. That's a complete over reaction even imo and I had to phone my grandad to remove the first dead mouse my cat caught

Blimey.

DH and I stopped counting when our new cat got to 30 dead voles. He started in May...

Maybe she had indoor cats?

Where did the cat leave the mouse? On her pillow with a note saying "you're next"? If not, then yes a slight overreaction from your lodger

Did she only have house cats?

I'd try to be sympathetic, but if she is that upset, she should find somewhere else.

Yanbu, I suggest a short, sharp, slap to the face followed by some vigorous shoulder shaking. Then show her the door and advertise for a new lodger. How on earth can someone that silly be left in charge of impressionable children. Picture of the cats would be lovely 😃

wizz

I'd be pretty traumatised by dead mouse and wouldn't be able to dispose of it myself (and I have a cat. He's never caught anything!)

But even I wouldn't lose sleep or cry for two days. My mouse loving six year old might though.

Mine brings home massive birds. They don't kill them just injure them enough so they can't get away. So acting like that over a small mouse is a big overreaction. They're cats.... It's what they do. She should know this.
Her cats were indoor ones I take it

I could with prior experience accept a meltdown if she'd found it in her bed, having laid on it and presumably smothered it, but this is completely OTT.

You mean like this Painted ?

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Shut in the kitchen?? Why? In case they look at her with dead baby mouse eyes and give her flashbacks??

I think you need to basically tell her the cats have been there longer so it's them or her!

If she used to own cats, bit surprising she doesn't know nothing says "I love you" like a little trophy brought home.
Maybe there's something else going wrong in her life.

No cats left it in the fireplace, I don't like it myself but accept it will happen.

I think I am going to gently suggest she would be happier elsewhere.

She genuinely is in tears or has been for 2 days and can't eat, I can only imagine her cat was indoor only.

I stupidly assumed a cat owner would realise that garden and cat flap means sometimes it happens.

She is now worried that if I am out the cats will do again which is another thing that terrifies her.

im wondering if the cats want the spare room back now

Have you asked if there's a reason for being this emotional? Or is it simply the dead mouse? Is it the fact she likes mice?

One of the culprits

What has upset her? A mouse being killed, the hygiene aspect or is she worried about them doing it again and her having to pick it up? Or is she traumatised by seeing a dead rodent?

Not all cats hunts. My current cat has never brought anything dead home. I don't think he loves me

He did once bring home a chicken curry. He brought it home in his belly and then regurgitated it onto the rug. Does that count?

She says its seeing a dead mouse?