Cat ate a mouse

[ScottishMummy12]

Sorry this isn't an AIBU but posting here for traffic.
I am watching my friends cats and one of them brought a mouse into the house. The cat had eaten about half the mouse. Do I need to take the cat to see a vet? If not is there any signs I should look out for?
I tried to check google but was getting very conflicting information.

YesQueen, my boy is siamese and spends 90% of his time in a stable, mousing, the horse owners love him, he decimates rats nests v quickly. He has a feral friend who lives there all the time, and my boy was a feral baby when I rescued him. He is the most prolific hunter I've ever known.

He also kills rabbits and squirrels but not so often thankfully.

The Siamese was a fab cat. She decided humans job was to carry her around, and if you refusing she would just clamber up you and drape herself around your neck. The bonus was she never left any remains as she would eat the lot

I love this thread :o Bless you, OP.

Our cat once stored a dead mouse inside my guitar. I discovered the smell when I opened the case for my guitar lesson at school. The music teacher tipped it out and a boy called Mark picked it up by the tail and threw it out of the window :o

My old cat brought a squirrel home once.
Ok I know you keep saying you have never had experience with cats before, but I can't get my head around how you don't know they eat mice, it is mentioned all the time,one way or another, I mean have you never seen Tom and Jerry?

**That should be OP not ok.

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@YesQueen

I meant more pure-bred cats, with more generations documented than for the Royal Family, every animal I came across from this category was most definitely not a hunter. I am not an expert, but cat-sit for friends a lot (although it makes me uneasy when a cat I am looking after is more expensive than an average car ).

A stable / feral cat is more likely to be a mixed breed with Siamese coat, no?Personally I am a fan of crossbred moggies myself anyway.

The cat will be fine.

I've had several cats over the years, when they bring in mice they usually just present them to me, whole and dead or occasionally with head missing. However two of my cats ate the mice. They would do it in front of me, crunch crunch, purring all the time. Yeuch!

Bringing in a RAT that is alive and escapes presents a problem.

A squirrel is ten times worse.

Silvercuckoo - My cat brings me agonising bloodied mice early in the morning, straight to bed.

Mine once re-enacted The Godfather - DS woke to find a mouse corpse on the pillow next to him.

I suppose we should be grateful it was the whole mouse - as I mentioned upthread, she has a penchant for eating most of the mouse but leaving just the tail. Her predecessor was the opposite - he found heads yummily crunchy and would leave the decapitated body.

@silvercuckoo full Siamese. She was definitely one on her own though. Her other trick was to sit on the arena fence as you rode past and then launch on to the horses back which caused quite a lot of... carnage

Mine on the other hand spent 4 years wandering the streets and believes firmly all food comes in pouches supplied by his mama, would rather cuddle than go outside

Our cats used to leave dissected mice on windowsills at night. Precision work with organs pulled out neatly.
Great mornings....🙄

@YesQueen, bloody hell maybe I was wrong to say cat food makers should not cow or sheep in tins for cats , tinned deer anyone ?

I always felt a bit weird giving our cats beef or lamb, so they get poultry or fish instead.

But yes, the joys of coming downstairs in the morning to vomited up mouse, feathers, or a carefully placed tiny organ (stomach?) and intestines aren't quickly forgotten.

@SamBeckett she was fantastically crazy. I thought she had reached her peak the day she dragged a pheasant back. Ruled the entire yard with "whatever the cat wants, the cat gets"

Lucky you, mog will vom it back up, quite likely! I wouldn't worry, at least it wasn't alive/half alive.

Our Bengal is daft. Rarely hunts and the last mouse she caught she seems to have licked to death as we found it in one piece but pretty hairless. She just loves fluffy things.

Naughty cat

Do pop to the vets for a working tablet though. They are very cheap and hunting is where most get worms from.

*worming lol

Our cat is a brilliant hunter.
Just as well, as we moved out more brutally near a waterway.
I can only guess as to what he hadn't caught.

Just looked there auto correct changed rurally .... I'll leave it as it's apt.

My vet advises worming 3-4x/yr for the regular hunters.

Crikey, do you guys go worm your cat each and every time they drag something dead home?

Biggest revelation of the day so far for me is that there is more than one person who doesnt know that cats eat mice

Did you think they just chased them for fun and let them go afterwards, have you never seen Tom and Jerry?

My old cat brought in various things including a pigeon, a mole, a blackbird, koi carp from the neighbour's pond and a squirrel. Miss him lots

For the people asking about Tom and Jerry, yes I have seen it but it's cartoon it's not exactly a factually correct documentary.
I have fed them this morning and he has gone back out so will see what interesting things he brings back today.

My old cat used to eat at least one mouse every night. In the morning there would be a pool of blood and a mouse stomach on the kitchen floor, he didn't like the stomach. Once he caught a rabbit and there was a rabbit stomach and its ears left on the floor. I guess the ears aren't very tasty.

Be thankful it had eaten it. My cat dropped a rodent corpse on my bed in the middle of the night. That was still better than the time she dropped a live mouse on my stomach while I was sleeping.