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Help Needed (bloomin' cat!)

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judegarland2512 · 09/12/2004 16:24

Last Thursday the cat bought in a live mouse (it was injured and had been playing dead) so the cat dropped it and couldn't be bothered to pick it up. By the time i tried to get it it scampered into the front room. I couldn't find it anywhere and i shut said cat (after a severe lecture) in the room in the hopes it would find it. No luck. Left the door shut all day and that evening DH and i moved all the furniture and searched everywhere - no luck. We left a trap down. No mouse.
Today i have started to notice a strange smell in the room - almost like rotting vegetables (ewww i hear you cry!). But i can't figure out where the smell is coming from. How am i going to find this mouse (if it is the mouse causing the smell!).

All help much appreciated!

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OnZephyrstdayofXmas · 10/12/2004 17:21

LOL

Have a look at \link{http://photobucket.com/albums/v505/zephyrcat/cats/\these} pics ..... the cat in the cage in a 'jungle cat' caught by a guy in Indonesia while they were out hunting wild boar that were eating their crops - apparently they caught him because he was making loads of noise and they didnt want the mummy and daddy coming to find him and getting nasty! They have since put him back though.
How gorgeous is he????!!!

LAMBda · 10/12/2004 17:25

Seriously cute. Are the other pics of your cats?

OnZephyrstdayofXmas · 10/12/2004 17:27

yep they're our monsters lol. The b&w one is Zephyr and the other one is Saffie, it's not the bvest pic of saffie though - if you catch her in the right light her eyes are bright orange!!

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judegarland2512 · 10/12/2004 20:50

Talking of "why do they do that" or even "how do they do that"? In through the cat flap, across the utility room floor, in through another cat flap, across kitchen floor, along hall (carpeted from here on in), up stairs, across landing, across bedroom floor, onto bed.....and STILL manage to get muddy footprints all over the duvet. How???

BTW - smell decreasing - one cushion is being aired in garage and have had window open, done multiple "febreezes" and have had lovely mulled wine candle burning.

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OnZephyrstdayofXmas · 10/12/2004 21:27

snap. No idea!!!!!!

snowdonim · 10/12/2004 22:14

Methinks Mumsnetter's cats are the source of all those reports of pumas and panthers we read about in the press!! I luuuurve those Bengalis, yummy yum, I want one (or two...). Our tabby cat catches various creatures, though may be a reformed character as there hasn't been anything for a while. Last victim was a baby bunny which mog was chewing enthusiatically. I took it away from her then spotted a poor little detached bunny ear lying in a flower bed.

Jude, a friend of ours had a similar pong in her kitchen and eventually found the source - a decomposing mouse wedged in the drip-water pipe on her fridgefreezer.

OnZephyrstdayofXmas · 10/12/2004 22:15

oh nooooooo!!!!!!! A baby bunny????!!!! :(

80sMum · 10/12/2004 22:25

At one stage we had three cats, and they used to litter the house with sundry rodent bodyparts, with an occasional bird's leg or beak thrown in. Once I came downstairs in the morning to find the back end of a rabbit in the dining room and trails of blood everywhere. Didn't know where to start with the clean up.
Haven't had cats for about 7 years now. Miss the cats, but definitely don't miss all the little furry presents.

OnZephyrstdayofXmas · 10/12/2004 22:33

oh not another bunny!!!! lol I never knew cats killed rabbits :(

Glad my two are pretty pathetic cats!!!

snowdonim · 10/12/2004 23:24

'Fraid they do, OZDX. My bro's two cats kept the bunny population in check for an entire small town, we reckon!! One of our cats once brought a full grown rabbit over our 6ft wall and in through the cat flap. He couldn't understand why we weren't pleased.

80's mum, we have three cats but one is a non-hunting 14yo. Then there is 'Killer' who's 4 and we have a 6mth kitten who likes to watch the birdsies......

SueW · 10/12/2004 23:52

I love it that our cats kill their own food - they will eat it when biscuits are the in-house option - as it means I can go away for a couple of days happy in the knowledge that they will sort themselves out if they don't like the food left in the garage for them.

I once saw our then 1yo cat kill a wood pigeon in our garden. Pigeon was minding its own business hanging out on the lawn and suddenly - BOOF! - jumped on from behind by an adolescent cat who hung on for dear life until the pigeon tired. Feathers everywhere. If it had been a cartoon, the pigoen would have got off the ground taking cat with it as they weren't that different in size.

Having completed his kill, he dragged it into the shrubs in the border. By next morning it had disappeared completely and we've always wondered whether the local fox and/or cubs had it. BTW, this partic cat is not afraid of Foxy either, having encountered him/her in the garden a ocuple of times!

TwasTheNightBeforeXmasOwl · 11/12/2004 00:58

dunno about cats killing things but i may kill my cats soon grrrr. ive noticed theyve been scratching at my new (about two months old) wallpaper (which it took me a loooong time to put up). when i came in last night i saw theyd ripped a huge piece and it was hanging down the wall. i wanted to stick it before they tore it off completely and dragged it away but the glue was in the shed and it was about 11.30pm. so i decided the clear spray varnish under the sink would do the trick until the morning. out comes the varnish and i was doing pretty well until i decided to give it a blast on top aswell. i hadnt realised up until this point that i had picked up the white spray paint.

not amused. have to buy another roll just to redo one strip now.

smokey · 11/12/2004 01:08

We often get up to five dead mice or shrews each morning either in the house or just outside the front door (we have 3 cats and live in the countryside). We have also had moles, frogs and bats.

The worst was a live mouse. We lost it in the utility room and couldn't find it anywhere. We locked all 3 cats in there in the hope they would flush it out but nothing. After about a week, I heard a funny noise behind the control panel of the washing machine and realised it had taken up residence there. We disconnected the machine, took off the top and found it had eaten through all the insulation and some of the wiring. The washing machine had to be replaced... (The mouse, however, was fine and was rehomed outside, so a partial happy ending depending on your point of view.)

Levanna · 11/12/2004 01:18

I had a friend who's cat (very large cat) used to hunt rabbits and carry (not drag!) them about 800 yards or so, back to the house.
Mine used to let live rodents go in the house, and the odd bird. (Usually the kitchen....cats have a very dry sense of humour! Hence the carpet/vomit thing, once I even found a hairball in the folds of a curtain...how?)
On one occasion one of our terriers came to get me as he and his brother had found a rather large rat hiding in some rubble but didn't quite know what to do about it. My cat came along with me to see what all the fuss was about and within about 3 swift powerful moves had found and killed the rat. I swear to this day that she gave the two terriers the most contemptuous gaze before licking her paws and sauntering off!

Levanna · 11/12/2004 01:23

Re the dry sense of humour...
My cat never got stuck on the roof....until I would attempt a lie in. She would saunter past the velux window above the bedroom, nearly grin in at me then move to the edge of the roof and start wailing pitifully until I got up, went outside and 'rescued' her. She only ever got 'stuck' on the roof when she saw through the velux that I was in bed.

tatt · 11/12/2004 03:24

I am posting at this time of morning because there was a sound like a mouse jumping off the bed. We trapped some in the eaves a few weeks back. Actually I think it was a forgotten coat hangar falling off the bed. I think I need the help of some of these cats :o Can they be trusted not to claw my bed/ wake me at 4a.m wanting to be fed?

Levanna · 11/12/2004 05:19

Not necessarily clawing, but getting woken by a kittycat licking your nose in the early hours is somewhat disconcerting!

xmascaroltygirl · 11/12/2004 21:59

I know someone who had a strange dream, one night, where she was wearing a huge, warm furry hat... Woke up with a start and found there was a cat on her head.

Thing is - they didn't even HAVE a cat! Neighbour's one had got in the window!

TwasTheNightBeforeXmasOwl · 12/12/2004 03:15

i had an extra cat once. i count them before i go to bed and counted too many. i searched around and just couldnt understand why my pure back cat was under the table and behind the sofa at the sane time. turned out the sofa guy was an intruder and was so scared he nutted the catflap 5 times before i opened it for him!

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judegarland2512 · 13/12/2004 11:29

One year we were off on hols, and cat had to be at cattery for 4pm. The little devil (who always comes to say hello when i get home) went AWOL until 4:30pm!
So plan was to take him first thing in morning (hence not so early start!). He was locked in, windows shut (litter tray down). Next morning he was nowhere to be found - yet on searching under the bed we found a neighbours cat! Can only presume that we had catflap on "in only" and that neighbour cat had come in and held catflap open for ours to get out!
Ours eventually sauntered in and we weren't delayed too much!

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