To askIf every cat brings mice in?

[CommuterMummy]

Following up from another post from today, I just wanted to ask this to a wider audience.
I have a real mice phobia and am scared that getting a cat will mean having them bringing them home dead or, even worse, alive. I am reading of a lot of people saying their cats bring home all sorts of animals but I wonder how rurally these MNetters live? We’d be in a house in Surrey, not very rural, close to town centre and with a small garden.
DH had cats most of his life when growing up and says his ones never did it. They only went in the garden for a bit during the day and at night they’d be kept in the house and they never brought prays in.
I am panicking a bit reading comments from other posters with their cats brining mice in continously but DH is adamant that it doesn’t happen with all cats and depends on where you live, how free they are to go out etc.
Anyone here who has a similar experience to DH and what do you do to avoid unwanted “guests”?

My 2 boys rarely go out (I'm laughing at the idea of not having a litter tray - they'd be appalled at the idea of having to do their business in the wild!), and unsurprisingly have never brought in anything. GirlCat, however, has brought in a few birds and once, memorably, a GIGANTIC dragonfly, which she gave to the boys to practice with :D
I think generally boy cats hunt less than girl cats, and tend to be more at-home, but obviously individual cats will be different.
OP I think you really just need to have a plan in place for if your cat does bring something in - rather than waiting for it to happen and then panicking.

@thelongroad I think it'll have to be a housecat...

I think female cats seem to hunt more and are more likely to bring you offerings than male cats, is that just my own experience ?

No, my female cat (who lived to be 16) never did.

We had a moggy, never caught a thing. As far as she was concerned, good came from a tin. She died from feline aids. Then because she looked just like one, we got a Maine Coon and also because you could vaccinate against it. Umpteen generations of cats living cooped up, not allowed to roam free. No mouse was safe, she caught her last at the age of 20.
So, they either hunt or they don't. No way of telling really.

Every cat I have owned has killed mice outside and kept them out of the house. I'm actually scared to not have a cat as the only time I have had mice was when I didn't have one.

We live rurally and of our two rescue cats one was a fervent hunter but her brother never catches anything, even when mice were getting into the house.

My beautiful boy never brought a mouse in. In the summer he’d often disappear for a day or two but never came in with anything.

He passed last year. We then got a dog. It has brought in 2 mice and a frog from the garden.