Sympathy wanted for mouse filled morning

[RatintheCat]

Sigh. I accept this might be a mouse problem rather than a cat problem. Needless to say we have never had any mouse or rat issues before latest DC arrived, I've posted before about her hunting.
Getting ready in the en suite first thing today and became aware of mouse staring at me from under the shower. Lively little thing, couldn't catch it but had to leave for work so left it. Oldest child has just text me to ask why there's a dead mouse floating in the toilet.....they hate mice and I'm now too far away to sort it argh.

Hoping it is one and the same mouse. Have tried keeping DC in at night but she wakes at 5 and wants to go out. Did think she brought something in the other night and lost it in the kitchen and then the following night she was adamant there was a mouse in the living room but couldn't find it. No idea how to stop her bringing them in, I suspect there is now a mouse issue as she isn't allowed upstairs so won't have brought it up to us which probably means we are infested somewhere.

I know there's nothing to be done, cat is going to cat but needed to share.

I believe there are cat flaps you can get that detect if they got prey in their mouths and it doesn’t unlock.

Honestly though, I think you just need to be more grateful she’s feeding you, since you can’t catch mice for yourself 😁

Also you’ve broken the sacred Mumsnet rule … if you post about your Dcat you must also have a photo of said overlord.

I wouldn’t say it’s because you’re infested, I think it’s more likely the mouse your cat bought in just made its own way upstairs, but then must’ve fell in the toilet when climbing up it.

The thing is I can catch mice myself...she gets confused when I do that and remove her toy though 😆 but you are right about the pic. We have a microchip cat flap but it's only open at night in an attempt to limit the mouse escaping to the kitchen....she doesn't kill them she just brings them in as pets

This would be the dream @Applecrumbleandcinnamon but I don't know if that is at all realistic. It would need to get quite far!

This is almost certainly what happened. They can fit through whisper thin gaps and roam all over houses. Probably trying to get as far away from the cat as possible, and then looking for a drink. We had on old butler sink in the garden and I found a mouse in there once that drowned getting a drink. I make sure the drain is clear now and they can drink out of the bird bath.

just to add, I had mice once who moved up to my place from the badly maintained flat below me in London. Once he got the exterminator out and cut his grass and stopped leaving food waste everywhere, problem solved. They climbed two stories inside the building to check my place out!

Try setting some humane traps around the house and see what shows up. I sympathise, Christmas and New Year's Eve were largely ruined for me by Dcats bringing in not one but two mice that were then 'lost'. Found in horrific ways now 🤮

Here we go. Mouse bringer during downtime

Interested to know if those catflaps work? I was on the mailing list for Only Cats but they couldn’t produce a single video of the thing actually in action.

Oh no @Flowerfairy101 how frustrating! Just before Christmas I came downstairs to a giant rat in the kitchen. Thankfully dead but I do wonder how on earth she managed to catch and drag the blighter all that way. I'm more of a snap trap person tbh although I can usually just catch them myself and put them out but it would help to know where they are if others

Nothing useful to advise, just wanted to applaud your lovely poetic thread title and your use of 'dc' to describe your cat instead of your children 😹

Our house is very old and holey @GeorgiePorgiePuddingPie and tbh upstairs is a safe haven from the cat as she only comes up at 5am to sing the song of her people and wake us up so I feel slightly more optimistic after your tale/tail of mouse

The thing that's bugging me is if mouse was under the shower even if it came out when I left how did it get up onto the toilet and then fall in? Surely it must be a different mouse...

Hopefully it's the same mouse 🤷
We had a mouse, assumed where there's one there's more but not sure if the cat bought it in.
First time we saw one in the kitchen I left OH sat on the kitchen countertop armed with a spatula and a tupperware pot 🙄 while I shot off to b&q for mouse traps.
You have my sympathy, I'd get some mouse traps just in case.
On the bright side at least your cat is trying to feed you!

Very cute cat 😊

@Cherry60 if my children bring in mice I make them live outside so DC for cat seems more fitting 🤣

Trust me, mice can quite easily climb stairs!

What a beautiful cat op!

I sympathise, my cat brings me live mice to run around the house.

Might have climbed up the wall and dropped down off the cistern? I found droppings on the freestanding cooker in my London flat. Disgusting, but the little beggars are like trapeze artists! 😂

We have the exact same issue. Last week the smell in the kitchen turned out to be a dead mouse that had crawled into the back of the fridge and died!

Sunday we found a live one in the front room and in the summer we also had one in the upstairs toilet - I think DCat had brought it in through the window, it camped out in the wardrobe for a day or so and was driven out in search of water!

I've resorted to making the cat flap one way at night but it's not ideal, especially in this cold weather!

I have three cats but it's the young one who's the culprit I think!

Yes @DoctorMartin we only have thr flap going out now except at night as I worry about the cold. Your cat is adorable, excellent white bits.

@RatintheCat 😹😹

D Cat is old now but when she was young she used to bring me Mice in bed so I didn't need to get up. One night I slid my hand under the pillow to turn it over to the cool side and found a mouse sheltering there.

This reinforces in my mind that I'm right to lock DC in the kitchen at night...although I'm now realising it doesn't stop them getting upstairs