Little mousey fuckers have eaten all the stocking fillers

[avocadoze]

One large Lindt bear
Four bags of chocolate coins
Two marzipan logs
One tube of smarties
Box of heroes
Tube of chocolate buttons
Tray of Reece’s treats
The cotton bag the coins were in

Little shredded bits of foil, plastic and paper all over the cupboard. Cat gives me a nonchalant look and goes back to sleep.

AIBU to fire the cat, go through all our food cupboards to check for recon mice and engage in all-our war with the little buggers?

And is that a cavalier on the cat'n'dog snuggle picture, as opposed to a cavalier king charles?

(I'm so excited - exotic rescued kittens, cats with floofy tails, black cats, orange cats, multi-coloured cats - I might even we myself . . . )

My boy is really good at catching mice too.
And rabbits, birds, worms ,butterflies, spiders, wasps ...

You need to find out where the mice are getting in your house, missing pointing, drilled holes for sky or aerial cables are good places to start. Buy some cheap own brand brillo pads & stuff the wire wool in any holes outside then fill with cement. Find where they have eaten there way round inside, stuff all holes with cheap blue bait pellets, you can normally buy a drum from a hardware shop & then more brillow pads. I got rid of an infestation within a week by doing this. All food should be in sealed snap lock boxes or glass jars.

My two are fine to Talk The Talk but they don't Walk The Walk , they will sprint off down the garden like rockets at the mere suggestion of the Resident Squirrel wafting by .

But their prey so far has been moths, dragonflies and worms .
Brought in (live) and dumped on the floor .

They're lardying on DD bed hoping a mouse will somehow wander into their mouths...............

Team Black Cat

I'm about to die from Ahhhhhhhhhh overload! @CorBlimeyGovenor

The dog cat spooning killed me😍😍😍

@FizzyIce Your cat looks like the protector of an Egyptian Pharoah. Proper regal and mysterious. Beautiful.

We have a few of these boxes around the house. Really powerful snap traps - instant kill and no gore because they crush, rather than cut, plus they're safe from little fingers and haughty paws.
www.littlepeckers.co.uk/p/the-big-cheese-ultra-power-trap-kit-for-mice

@DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh:

Have you seen the size of his feet? He has claws to match. I pity the fool who would count his fingers.

justcly

If I ever see a one-armed cat-owner, I'll know who you are!

@CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook He’s dumb as a house brick though ,bless him !

Not quite spooning...

I got rid of mine by putting poison down the holes, then filling with expandable foam. Traps were useless.

Nothing to add but I feel your pain. Last Christmas, mice ate the chocolate * in* the stockings as they lay under the tree on Christmas Eve night!

Ps - they only ate Lindt and left the cheaper stuff!

My late lamented cat was the absolute worst. One year we noticed that we had a mouse problem. “Never mind”, we thought, “Useless moggy will sort those rodents right out”. Then we noticed a terrible smell from a corner of the kitchen behind the fridge. We assumed that Useless Moggy had mortally wounded a mouse which had crawled away to die. On further investigation it turned out that the smell was coming from a large pile of decomposing cat food which the mice had been regularly stealing from UM’s actual food bowl.

Aew the mousies have found an all you can eat buffet. They have invited their friends, don't be surprised if you find a tiny mouse size sound system.

Ps - they only ate Lindt and left the cheaper stuff

That is a call to war.

I can't quite tell what's going on in that photograph @DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn but the 'spooning' position looks somewhat dodgy and suspicious. Is someone taking advantage there?

Your cat is so beautiful her regal disinterest in Team Mouse is easily forgiven....

@QueenCranberry what is your cats name? I'm adopting a similar looking cat on Thursday. I'm adding a photo, I think her name begins with an M, but I'm looking for inspiration!

Mine survey mice from on high. They are absolutely useless

@itsnearlymorning I'm pretty sure your cat is a tabby point Siamese - the siamese coat and eye colour is a recessive gene and usually any half siamese have the shape but not the colour.

Does she have a loud miaow and lots of attitude - that's a sure giveaway of a siamese (speaking from years of bitter experience 😻)

DSis has a mouse problem in her loft, the garden backs onto fields so it's ongoing and always will be. She has to store anything mice will eat or destroy for nests in those clear plastic crates - could you put your edible presents in something like that? I offered loan of our cat

Last Christmas, mice ate the chocolate in the stockings as they lay under the tree on Christmas Eve night!

''Twas the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring.... well, only a mouse."

CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook the white/brown (and possibly slightly muddy) bits are the hind legs of a spaniel who is lying flat out on his back. They are being hugged by what I believe to be Captain Raymond Jacob Holt (known as Holt)

SheepSocks she looks like a disapproving head mistress 😂😂