Where else can they put mice??

[JorisBonson]

Girl cat is a prolific mouse hunter. She brings them home for boy cat who likes to play with them until cat dad wakes up and puts them outside.

A lot of them end up under the sink, in a blanket box or under the radiator.

Today's mouse is in the CUTLERY DRAWER.

How has it done it??

Thank God we have clean stuff in the dishwasher so I can avoid that drawer until cat dad gets home.

Mrs Grumpy once found half a mouse in her dressing gown pocket.
There is no end to a cat's ingenuity .

GIP @Grumpyoldpersonwithcats 🤢🤢

Earlier this week I went to pick up what I thought was a leaf from the back door, and it was the arse end of a mouse 🤢

Ugh. I posted a thread a couple of years ago where my DMs friend had a dead mouse 'somewhere' in his shitheap of a home office. Papers and boxes covering every inch of floor space and it really was paradise for a cat with squirrel stashing tendencies.

To my knowledge, despite my poor DM trying to sort the room out through the stench of rotting circus in the middle of a heatwave, the body was never found

Oh I wish cutlery drawer mouse was dead. I got a spoon and saw a little tail moving. Drawer is firmly shut until DH gets home!

When I was a kid I had a chocolate milkshake before bed, left half of it in a glass by the sink and when my mum chucked it out in the morning there was a dead mouse in there.. presumably brought in courtesy of our cat. Imagine drowning in chocolate milk

Inside shoes is a favourite.

Boots.
My friend put her boots on to pop into the garden. Felt something but assumed a left in there sock...
Took her foot out and a chewed up mouse was mangled in her bare feet.......

I found a dead mouse in my toaster once, but on that occasion I think the cat was innocent on the balance of probability. Though on reflection there could have been some prior involvement. My best mousers favourite trick was front and back halves pushed back together so you think it’s still all in one piece.

@viques NO. I would have died.

We usually have live mice but I have unwittingly taken a dead one to work in my rucksack.

I have a dead one under my bed this morning- also had one rotting under the fridge - the flies!

Live ones I just pick up and move to a place of safety- rescued a tiny baby one from tabby twat last night

Oh and I find random heads around the house

I would suggest that it escaped under a kitchen unit and then climbed up the back of the drawers itself.
Escaped pet hamsters are quite often found nesting in clothing in chests of drawers in the owner's bedroom by doing this - they press themselves between the back of the cupboard and the wall to climb.

[quote JorisBonson]@viques NO. I would have died.

We usually have live mice but I have unwittingly taken a dead one to work in my rucksack.[/quote]
I nearly did, turned the toaster upside down to shake out crumbs and a little face popped out at me! That toaster hit the bottom of the bin in a time Mo Farrah would have been proud of.

I put my fingers in my ears when my dd said “I wonder how long it’s been in there”

Never been so glad I have a dog!

Ours put one in their food bowl once.

One of our kittens got stuck in the cutlery drawer himself once. I had a nightmare trying to open it wide enough to get him out without squashing him against the knives.

I had a dead one in my slipper once. I only wear slippers in the winter, so didn't know it was there until it started to smell I was picking up stuff from the under bed drawer and sniffing to try to locate the problem, and got a face full of dead mouse stench...

Also had one die under the bathroom floor, ended up lifting the floor to rule out a gas leak as the smell was so bad.

When we moved house we accidently moved a live mouse! I opened up my wrapping paper box to organise it a few weeks after we moved, and discovered I now had box of shredded paper and a confused mouse instead.

He's clocked where it is... Useless, useless cat.

@JorisBonson
Our cats don't go on kitchen surfaces either

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcats he is a law unto himself! Girl cat is much more respectful of rules.🤣

This thread has made me die....mice in the toaster, mice in work bags, mice in slippers.....Lol.

As for the mouse in the drawer.....open the back door wide, take out the cutlery draw and put the whole thing in the garden in the rain. And run back in and shut the door.

Once I was in the kitchen and assumed DH had missed the bin with a teabag which was just on the floor. About to pick it up and it was a mouse head!

My one used to line them up outside in regimented rows. Six was the record I came down to one morning.

In his defence, he is gorgeous...

And he's making sure it doesn't get out and 'get' you before cat dad gets home. Completely selfless. You should probably bring him some tuna to show your gratitude.

Our boy used to leave the back legs and tail and eat the rest. We called it a 'mouse stalk' like when you bite the top off a pear.

Miss him lots. The mouse stalks, not so much...