Fucking cat has let a live mouse loose in the bedroom and I can't find it!

[Gumbo]

She's normally very good about only bringing her 'friends' into the garden clearly she needs an urgent reminder of this etiquette

It's now 4AM. She announced her arrival with the mouse half an hour ago, I leapt out of bed and tried to catch it in a deodorant cap, but it was too big to go in! Oddly enough, I didn't have any suitable container to hand... Anyhow, it managed to run away and get behind a chest of drawers, and has now escaped from there and is under the bed. Somewhere. I can't find it😥

I've been moving furniture whilst swearing at the cat, but I can't be noisy because DS has an A-level exam today, and his bedroom is below mine.

I'm back in bed with a mouse somewhere beneath me, but obviously can't sleep.

My cat is an arse.

Sadly the mouse is definitely still in the bedroom...the layout of the house means that's not in question.

@Freysimo I very much hope you're right! I've been awake since 03:30 and am going to be shattered at work today, so need to not be worrying about a rouge mouse in my bed tonight!

Our cats were tormenting on in the garden. We managed to get it and we put it right next to the fence where there were gaps so it could get away. The stupid thing kept running back towards the middle of the garden towards the cats however many times we put it by fence.

Why won't your cat finish the job?

Because cats are twats. 😁

This is why I will never have a cat. I love them, but I really wouldn't want to deal with any "gifts".

This reminds me of a favourite childhood Scottish song - There’s a moose, loose, aboot this hoose!

😁At least it would be bloody obvious where it was it was a moose!

The mouse will be long gone, I rarely bother now unless we can actually catch them and let them out

Once its run under something Im back to bed, it will either find its way out or the cat will regain interest (unlikely) but Im not spending all my time trying to chase round a mouse. You'll find it again dead somewhere when you move house anyway!

Some don't!
My last one couldn't catch a cold, the only thing he brought me was a leaf and a crisp packet
New cat likes to chase flies and that's it

Tie the car to a broomstick handle and that way you can push the cat under the bed, chester (sic) drawers and into difficult corners and the cat should act a bit like a vacuum cleaner and find the mouse.

Dogs sometimes do it too! My dog (terrier) proudly brought me a decapitated squirrel once. She must have dragged it in through the dog flap (we have woods behind our garden). The vet said its quite common for dogs to eat animal heads due to "the goodness in them" hork

She was livid when we disposed of the body and wouldnt talk to me for a week

@soupfiend having watched the mouse sprint beneath the bed and not come back out, it's very much not 'long gone' unfortunately . The bedroom is huge and the bed is far from the only exit so it would have been spotted by either me or the -sodding-- cat.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles That's a brilliant idea, I'll get onto it now (and come back later with pics of my shredded arms from the attempt of restraining the hunter )

Great. Thanks. I have a hound. It seems my frog days may not be over.

Mind you, the only thing she seems to find on walks are pizzas and kebabs 🤷🏼‍♀️

It will have squeezed out in between skirting/carpet or laminate edges or it will do at some point anyway. Out of all the meeces our cat has bought in and we didnt get hold of, Ive only found one behind a cabinet when we had our windows refitted. Bit embarrassing!

No, they play with it. Much as I love cats bringing in live mice and cats is not one if their most endearing traits.

Should say birds not cats.

😂😂😂

Quite a good find I'd say!

DGirlCat does this - she's teaching the kitten (me) to hunt. I'm not a fast learner.

I have humane traps but they're pretty useless (got one once). My current system is basically a Controlled Cat Experiment. I go in there with my large spider catcher and DGirlCat. DGC finds and catches mouse. I get mouse in spider catcher and take him back to his friends and family in the garden. DGirlCat mourns and gives me reproachful looks. DBoyCat asks if he can have a mouse too please.

Not the 'car' - the CAT!

Although tying a car to a broomstick is likely to be far more easier than tying a cat!

I think they think they are doing you a favour by bringing one home for you! They would come into the house howling to let you know they had got something. And if we were quick enough we could intercept on the stairs and at least get it taken back down. A live capture mouse trap is an essential piece of cat equipment.

I've also had a live blackbird (brought in by Dcat) in the hall in the early hours. Me in a dressing gown with the front door wide open chasing the bird around to try to get it to go out, looking like a maniac to anyone passing, the bird flitting from perch to perch refusing to leave.

The late evil Oscar would catch mice and bring them in to demonstrate his technique. Inevitably, part-way through him showing how he threw it up in the air before pouncing on it again, the mouse would disappear under the couch. Oscar promptly lost interest in it and mooched off to see if there was any food in his dish. On the rare occasions he kept hold of a mouse he'd eat most of it and leave the remains in the hallway.

Bubbles, who on her own initiative only brought in worms and moths, would spend days camping out by the couch and eventually, usually, catch the mouse and slay it neatly. She never ate it.

My current cats don't go out, so the only mice they catch will be ones that have found their own way in uninvited. We'll be more than pleased if the cats dispose of them.

This is a thing here seen soo much (and had to help twice as well).Why , why do you always? If you have a cat . Need help to catch them , even down a bat

Update:
No mouse appeared all day yesterday despite the peanut butter. So I went to bed knowing full well there was a mouse in the room, and was almost certainly below me and waiting to pounce as soon as I went to sleep

At 2AM it decided to be brave enough to leave the hiding place and venture across the room... I was alerted to this fact by my naughty hunter cat and her less-hunty uncle who were making a racket trying to extract it from beneath a heavy piece of furniture. It was obvious they wouldn't be able to get it, so left them on guard and went back to sleep.

This morning I lured encouraged the cats downstairs for breakfast then put the trap right by the unit the mouse was under. I went for a walk, and when I got back the trap was sprung! There's now a little mouse romping free alongside the river (in a place I know the cat doesn't go).

So happy ending 🙂

Congratulations. I really hate it when Cat Two does that. 😄

And it's always at night too, which doesn't help!