What the cat brought home

[Homesunderthehammer27]

About 3 weeks ago we had a cat flap fitted on an outside door. The last time I had a cat flap, I had three instances of the cats bringing in live prey in 5 years. I've now had three live mice in three weeks - all courtesy of a newer cat!

He's got to come through the outside cat flap and then through a second cat flap on the utility room door into the livingroom. Then he just drops the mouse who scuttles off to hide and he loses interest. I'm hoping we've found all the ones he's brought back

Has anybody any ideas about how to disuade him from bringing mice into the living room? The outside cat flap is on a curfew (now set at 6pm!!) so he can't get out overnight but I'm not going to lock it permanently as that's not fair on the other cats (or using the cat flap for the reason I bought it). I'm thinking it's possible I might have to get a second microchip controlled cat flap for the utility room door and not program him into it but I wondered if anybody else has had success with other techniques?

I’d go for the microchip now. Unless he’s smart enough to follow the other cat straight out.

Then your screwed.

He's not the brightest cat - just very good at catching prey - so I might have to bite the bullet. The annoying thing is that we just bought a new larger cat flap for the inner door because he's so big and had difficulty getting through the last one. He might have left the mice in the utility room otherwise 😀

A humane mousetrap is on the shopping list too.

My DC brought in a bread roll today. It was bin day so am guessing the bin men dropped it or he pulled open a bag.

Normally he brings frogs or birds so quite happy with the roll!

I was just about to post something similar. I've found 2 deceased mice over the last 2 evenings. She's also brought in live & dead fledgling birds.

She seemed quite pleased to show me her latest catch today 🤢
Is there anyway to discourage them bringing gifts in at all? I suspect not ☹️

Mine didn’t. And I used to boast to anyone who had a cat that he didn’t bring mice etc in.

Then I added a cat flap. Worst idea ever. All he does now is bring them in.

My question is why not before.

My childhood cat used to particularly enjoy bringing in frogs but when distressed they scream which is horrid.

She did seem to grow out of it as she got a bit older though so maybe you just have to grin and bear it for a while?

My serial killer regularly brings in mice which he gives to his brother to eat (brother is useless at hunting)
We get varying wild animals and birds and a selection of cooked meats. The half a roast chicken and a full pork pie(family size) were worth it for the comedy value of him trying to drag it in through the cat flap

We had two microchip cat flaps when we had an older cat and two kittens. It took the kittens less than a week to figure out they could follow the big cat through the flap.