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It finally happened...

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JorisBonson · 07/09/2021 06:49

Have posted here before about Girl Cat and her hunting. She likes to bring home live mice for Boy Cat, who just watches them run around the house. I don't appreciate either of these things.

At 4am GC hops into bed to sing us the song of her people, but instead of trying to fuse herself into DH as usual she hopped all over the bed. This woke me up, I readjusted to get comfy and go back to sleep. Thought there was a pair of headphones on my feet (🤷🏻‍♀️) and tried to kick them off.

Dear reader, GC had finally brought a live mouse into bed and merrily let it go under the covers.

Cue my mad, screaming dash to the spare room and DH fetching his trusty mouse scooping shoebox.

Mousey got out alive and GC looked ever so proud she'd brought us such a nice present.

The door will be staying firmly closed from here on in.

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TheBalletCats · 07/09/2021 09:23

So terribly ungrateful of you Joris - there she is, sharing nicely with you, trying to teach you some vital life skills…

(More seriously, hope you’re ok & that mouse was swiftly scooped & returned to Great Outdoors.)

Sleepinghyena · 07/09/2021 09:25

I was given a spider in similar style last night! Fortunately not under the covers though.

Want2beme · 07/09/2021 10:18

Grin what a shock!

FlyingFlamingo · 07/09/2021 10:28

My little cat thought that we probably needed a new pet a few weeks ago so she trotted inside with a baby rat, who she released into the kitchen before trotting back out again. Ratty ran straight under the freezer. Little cat did not agree with our suggestion that she may want to catch our new resident again and evict it? Big cat looked very confused when we asked her to deal with it. Needless to say we did not agree to offer Ratty asylum and it was evicted back outside. I guess we are as ungrateful as you.

At least Ratty wasn’t brought into my bed though Envy

YetAnotherSpartacus · 07/09/2021 11:01

JC on a pogo stick I'd have had a heart attack.

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JorisBonson · 07/09/2021 11:44

I'm so glad I was (for once) in a deep sleep. God knows why I thought it was headphones. Must have been his gummy little feet.

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Soubriquet · 07/09/2021 11:49

I love mice and rats. But I wouldn’t be impressed to have one in my bed!!!

Christ.

Toddlerteaplease · 07/09/2021 12:30

Omg! I'd have utterly freaked out. And probably burnt the house down.

TheBalletCats · 07/09/2021 15:23

Suppose at least you didn’t realise your headphone error by trying to insert a wee mouse paw into your ear?

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JorisBonson · 07/09/2021 20:04

@TheBalletCats thank God it didn't go this far!

Found another mouse in the garden. It was not in one piece.

I'm scared to go to bed. DH has convinced me to give her one more chance. Funny that he goes on to nights tomorrow.

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Fivefourthreetwo · 07/09/2021 20:51

That sounds like my worst nightmare. It was bad enough when I got up in the middle of the night and trod on a disembowelled rat

HumphreyCobblers · 07/09/2021 21:03

My cat once dropped a live mouse in the bedroom and it crawled into my hair 😱

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JorisBonson · 07/09/2021 21:05

@HumphreyCobblers

My cat once dropped a live mouse in the bedroom and it crawled into my hair 😱
DON'T I don't want to go to sleep 😔
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Cleverpolly3 · 07/09/2021 21:06

Mine recently presented me with the insides of a mouse
It could only have been worse for me if it had been a frog. Living or dead

Cleverpolly3 · 07/09/2021 21:07

Found the rest of the mouse in the utility that’s how I know I’m not a rodent expert

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JorisBonson · 07/09/2021 21:11

@Cleverpolly3

Mine recently presented me with the insides of a mouse It could only have been worse for me if it had been a frog. Living or dead
Had that once - it was horrific. I ended up asking a neighbour I'd never spoken to before to come and get it.
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Cally62 · 07/09/2021 21:12

Gummy little feet
Shock Shock Shock

Cleverpolly3 · 07/09/2021 21:21

@JorisBonson
It would be the equivalent of an invading spider forcing me to burn the house down as it often touted on here
I actually think I’d pass out they make me feel so ill the way they are still then launch

Mumsgirls · 07/09/2021 22:51

Joris I had very similar earlier this year, mouse bit me! My cat was useless so I moved into spare room and shut mouse in. Found it dead about a week later.

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JorisBonson · 08/09/2021 08:40

@Mumsgirls that would have been me if I was on my own!

Thankfully the nice weather kept them both outside last night and I had a mouse free evening.

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Chemenger · 08/09/2021 08:46

My cat used to bring me live mice in bed when I was ill. He used to carefully tuck them under the duvet. Everyone need comfort food when they don’t feel well, was his thought process.

Oldraver · 08/09/2021 15:17

My Mum has this when she lived in a bungalow and had left the window open

She didn't realise what all the jumping was about till she woke in the morning to blood on the bed

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