My cat keeps bringing in mice ALIVE

[Missp42]

Hello,
I need advice .we have a cat that we got from a shelter. As we both work full time ,we thought it would be best to get a catflap.
He loved the freedom of coming in and out.
However ,one day I came home and found a dead rat at the bottom of my stairs. I had a meltdown!!! I was so upset. Luckily my bf isn't phased.
Then he came home a couple of times found a couple of deas rats too.
So, I got him a collar with bells thinking it would solve the problem. It did for a week or so. Then it started again.
So, this time he's getting baby mice. I saw him in the garden with one I tried to help but it was too late..
Also, there was the odd time he'd just leave them outside. (Which i can handle somewhat).
So, the other day I saw him in the garden with one Luckily my bf had told me to lock the flap ..I witnessed him trying to bring it in the house still alive!!!

The last straw was I'd stupidly gone out at 10am and left the flap open
I came back and I saw him stalking near the couch I knew he brought something back .
I ran to my neighbours. There was a mouse hiding still alive.
So,now I'm having to lock the flap and start a whole new routine with me letting him in , leaving him outside or in the house (which I both hate) and him to wait till one of us comes back.
Its very sad ,I feel sorry for him.

I've ordered a ONLYCAT FLAP I'm praying this will be a life saver.

Any advice?
Please nobody tell "its just what cats do" as I'm sick of hearing it ,because I KNOW!!!

I’m afraid this is par for the course with cats! At least the rats aren’t running round your garden with your cat doing his job!

I know it's grim OP; we have a cat who is a prolific hunter of rodents and brings them in (sometimes alive, sometimes not!)

I hate it, but have reasoned with myself that it's better to catch them then have them running around the garden etc. We live in a city, so unfortunately there are a lot of mice and rats about.

Mice are a lot easier to catch than live birds!
Get some traps & set them up behind/ under furniture so your cat can't stick his paws in them, then if he brings something in you can catch it.
Chocolate works well in the traps

We live on the edge of a field with a cat who loves to hunt, most get away before he brings them in but the odd one makes. 4am mouse hunts are not much fun!

I don't know what else anyone can say because unfortunately, that is life with cats.

Fairly normal I'm afraid. We live somewhere where each of our cats but one in particular brings in live squarely and baby rabbits. I've seen the biggest cat eyeing up a muntjac deer and I know he's trying to work out how to get it through the cat flap 😂
my advice is to allow them into one room where the cat falp is and close off the rest of the house if that's possible. Our back door goes into a small room where the dog sleeps and our boiler is there so it's warm if it's nighttime

Bellls don’t work for ambush hunters like cats. I mean mice are pretty much natures all you can eat buffet. Everything eats them

your cat is bringing you gifts. Cats bring in dead prey for their owners if they have a low opinion of their owners hunting abilities.

Your cat has judged that you have made sufficient progress to tackle live prey now, so is attempting to educate you on how to feed yourself

he is not doing it to upset you, it is genuine caring

I find a good way to catch and remove a live mouse is to offer it a welly to run down into, then take welly a long way away and use something like a long handled washing up sponge to gently scoop mouse out. Be careful to use a welly you can actually reach the tow of. I used a wader once, and as far as I know the mouse is still in it