..to have left DH at the mercy of the creature under the bed

[Teagoanngoanngoann]

Fast asleep. Awoke to the sound of cat thumping onto floor (i stupidly left lower window open). A moments silence is followed by frenzied scuttling around the room. More silence. Then manic attacking of the bottom of the bed under the silky throw.
I grabbed phone and turned screen on to gloomily light the room(DH is still obliviously snoring)
Cat is frozen, staring under bed in stealth mode.
Decision time..to put my feet on the floor even though i dont know whats there or if its going to get me.(momentarily transported back to every childhood nightmare)
Leap off bed and into hall. Run upstairs n get DS2 to come down & look for evil bed monster. DS2 explains it would be easier to waken DH and turn light on. Decide DS2 is probably more sensible than me right now as he is not freaking out in the slightest.
Turn light on and waken DH..
DH is half asleep but agrees to look..says we dont need DS2 to help...DS2 leaves but DH rolls over n goes back to sleep .
Cat is still stalking bed monster.
I have lured cat out with ham and put it out
I have had to text DS1 and ask if i can sleep in his bed. He has offered to sleep on couch whenever he decides to come home.
AIBU not waking DH up properly and leaving him at the mercy of the catch of the day? How do i track down alive/dead thing tomorrow? Aarrgghh!!

I grew up in a country farm house. Opposite us was the beautiful Manor House lived in by The Brigadier.
We had a large number of cats. One of them was a highly strung but vicious Siamese.

One day he turned up with a pheasant. Fabulous thought mum and went off to and it in the shed. Then the cat turn up with the male to make the brace.
Just as mum realised the second one had lead shot in it the cat came back with the box they had be delivered in to the brigadier.

My cat brought a frog in once - alive, legs dangling out of cat's mouth. Cat and frog disappeared under my bed then there was a sort of popping sound. Cat had burst the frog. I hope you don't have a frog under there as well... anyhoo, sleep well! (Evil laugh)

We have mice in my cupboard at school. No food in their and it is the tidiest it has ever been but there are still droppings. Oh and when I discover he infestation this summer I found the buggers had weed all over my sparkly trainers I wear for sports day. My white sparkly trainers were now a stinking orange colour. They went straight in the bin!

As long as no one has an allergy, mice love peanut butter!!! Good luck

Widdle is a great word and needs to be used more often even though it's not good in reality. Mice are doubly incontinent, they just wee and poo as they walk.
If it makes you feel better Op one of my cats dragged in a dead pidgeon and tried to hide it under the bed, it might have got away with it if one of the wings hadn't dropped off on the way up the stairs

I am reminded of much lamented MorvaanCat the slayer.

One night DH was camped out on the sofa, full of cold, when the cat flap went ba domp bomp bomp. He hears MorvaanCat singing her "look what I got" song - m'rowl, m'rowl, m'rowl.

He sits up and sees that the cat has a large, wriggling rat in its mouth and shouts something along the lines of "Oi, you bastard!"

Affronted, MorvaanCat spits the rat on the hearth rug and fucks off back through the cat flap.

Rat begins wall of death circuits of the sitting room, hottly pursued by husband weildind the toasting fork.

Every so often the cat sticks its head back through the cat flap as if to say "go on my son".

Eventually the rat and the toasting fork had dents and the cat strolled back in as if nothing had happened.

As a child we had a large number of cats and lived in the country. Therefore we also generally had a terrier to dispatch anything the cats had got bored of.

@ morvaan sorry..think i might have moved out and left ratty & cat to it!!!

Well..good news! The huge mouse has finally been caught but somehow he looked alot smaller in his wee trap. He has a belly full of nutella and has been despatched down the road the appropriate distance (according to instructions)by DH in his slippers. (DHs not mouse slippers)
I am leaving removal of widdle duty until tomorrow when i can get stuck in.
FLC & EM catcher are out.
Windows are closed.
DS1 is sleeping in bed (not in cupboard)
Normality has returned.....apart from now realising we have a GIANT mould problem behind the bed where the old chimney breast used to be after pulling bed out
Its kind of put the widdle problem on the back burner.
Now to sleep and only worry about the mould thats under the bed. Night folks

Now you've just got to hope mousey hasn't got a taste for nutella enough to break back in for more.

@puppy can u imagine?

@Teagoanngoanngoann ** are your sure the mould wasn't caused by several mousey guests brought in by their kitty friend widdling on said wall???

The mouse is now out spreading the word of the ultimate place to party and feed. Tomorrow the renowned DJ Mouseness will be hosting a party at your place. Catnip included for his new allies

Our next door neighbour saw a mouse in their living room and asked if we could lend them SquiffCat to catch it.
So i gathered up the cat and carried her next door (London terrace so about 6 steps)
Once neighbour had shut all doors, I left the cat loose in their living room.
Whereupon SquiffCat went absolutely Batshit.
She was clearly terrified at being shut in a strange room, proceeded to dash round frantically, leaping over and round the furniture, and ended up repeatedly headbutting the window in an effort to escape.
I managed to grab the cat, and my terrified neighbour threw open the kitchen and back doorso the we got outside and I nearly threw the cat over our dividing dance before she opened my jugular (my arms and hands were a mass of scratches.)

Don't know what happened to the mouse.
It most probably split its sides laughing,

*dividing fence.

Tho a Dividing dance sounds fun

This thread is hilarious. Just woke 8 week old DS who was snoozing on my chest by snorting with laugher...!

BreakfastAtSquiffanys
Well, maybe Squiffcat was freaked by your neighbour’s ideas on decor (& thinking maybe you were abandoning them there); but MAYBE they were having their wee fluffbundle meltdown because what your neighbour saw was not a mouse, but Something Supernatural [& Sinister]... (please imagine suitably dramatic music & maybe some lighting effects to go with this post)

Glad you’ve managed to rid yourself of your troublesome priest mouse (& without messy knights & changing your mind situation, always awkward that; elevation of a rodent to sainthood would be even more awkward mind you...); hope PPs suggestion of your home becoming Top Mouse Nightlife Venue doesn’t come to pass.

OP

I think you need to take the mouse something like a mile away or it can come back.

I have proper enjoyed this thread 😂 best I've had under the bed was a hedgehog and the cat was having none of the blame for that, did a proper 🤔 face and fucked off and left me to it

We had returning mouse in our old house. The MuttDog was excellent at catching it and bringing it, unhurt, to me.

We knew it was a returner because after the second or third time I painted a stripe on its back - it came back another 5 or 6 times after being let loose at further and further distances away from the house.

Eventually I drove the 3 miles to work and released it in the corn fields next door. I'd like to think it lived out its days fat and happy and pissing the farmer off.

Can I just clarify. Is this your cat or some random mog who entered through the open window? Not sure it's relevant to identifying the genus of monster, but it's unclear...

One cat brought home a cooked chicken leg and a pop tart. No idea whose house he had been in.
Current cat caught 3 mice last summer on the same day. We found 2 dead and got one off her. It looked like her leg was broken so she went off to a wildlife lady who has kept her as her leg never healed.

One of our cats has caught rats, a mole once and a bit of chicken off a barbeque (no idea whos).

The other went through an awful phase of bringing in dead Robins.she also likes to bring frogs when she finds them, completely unharmed. If you put then in the garden shell bring it back still unharmed.

They've also tag teamed guests so one distracted and one went into said guests handbag and retrieved a sausage.

The worse two things were: cat 1 coming in and vomiting a whole fat /mealworm ball onto the carpet (I actually cried clearing that up as it was so disgusting). Cat 2 once came through the cat flap and i could hear loud banging. She was on one side and a huuuuuge dead pigeon was on the other. She kept pulling and bashing and it came through in bits.

Cats are just darling creatures.

@potterhead i used to leave my bedroom window open all the time. Im crossing fingers this has been a one mouse incident. I might leave a white trainer against back wall today to see if orange pee stains appear (sadly my trainers arent sparkly as they were a gift from one of the men i live with (DH or DSs) and sparkly things are deemed impractical by said males)
After reading this thread i may never open a window again i think i got off lightly compared to u lot with EMC cat only bringing in a mouse. If it brought in a frog i would be off ... cant get the image and sound of a popping frog out of my head! Gross!
Im really hoping i dont have to start another thread entitled Return of the evil bed monster and friends or Nutella party and the returning rodent. I def wont be getting close enough to paint go faster stripes on it!! 😆

Mice ‘home’
You’ll see this squeaker again, I warrant