Cat feeding?

[mikey]

I decided to go in the kitchen yesterday and make myself a peanut butter sandwich. I opened the jar and opened the bread and a fat large mouse ran from the side of the Foreman grill down the side of the stove and my dog quickly came into the doorway cuz he heard the noise. I was looking around for my large fat cat and she was sleeping on the couch!. I am sure the mouse ran away from the back of the stove when I walked out the kitchen. So, what do i need to do to make my cat care about catching a mouse? Geez my dog is more responsive to the rodent than the cat. Advice please

[Lisa]

I'd forget about the cat and get a mousetrap!

[Mrdi]

Simple
Don't feed the cat.

[Watchdog]

Stop feeding the cat. I promise . . . she'll eventually start hunting.

[mikey]

my biggest fear is the mouse walking on my bed while I am asleep

[Lisa]

Aw, that sounds mean to make the cat go hungry to force it to hunt for food. Why not a trap? That's simple.

[C. Davidson]

Get another cat. A young, hyper one. They love to hunt and play with mice...before they kill them dead.

Bongo, my large, fat cat, loves to kill roaches, grasshoppers and anything else that dares to enter my house. He will sit by the window for hours (as pictured), patiently waiting for some poor fellow to walk by. If he misses, Sammy and Mika are there for the kill. What's great is when they all triangulate whatever sorry prey they are about to kill, great teamwork. I love cats. So entertaining, better than animal planet.

[allanofcalifornia]

I'm surprised because cats love to catch mice and birds! I think you just spoiled your cat too much!


Allan

[Jimbits76]

Get a trap...a quick kill is far more humane than letting a cat toy with it and rip it apart.

J

[Taffi Abernathy]

Many of us experience our animals as an extension of our family. Would you really want your cat mutilating a rodent then giving you kisses?! I think not. Yuck! My vote is for a mouse trap.

[jdc]

my feeling is that the cat is not in love with you, probably flirts with the next door neighbour. Everyone knows cats love bringing in presents for the ones they love. We get frogs, had the odd koi, some goldfish, and mice. I'm afraid you are going to have to accept facts, its over

[mikey]

hmmm hmmm when i woke up this morning she was laying on the floor in front on my bedroom doorway very bright eyed and her food bowl is empty downstairs. Normally, I would here her eating. I talk to both of them. I told her i want her to catch that mouse! I have a mousetrap in my basement with old cheese on it for the past 6 months. The problem I have with setting them upstaris is the cat and dog accidently getting hurt by them. I have put 2 glue traps under the stove but I am sure they have 4-5 mice on them. Last year, I had a huge mouse problem til I got my cat in November and I spoiled her and didn't realize it now I am sure its more than one mouse.

[redshirt1957]

Originally Posted by Lisa

Aw, that sounds mean to make the cat go hungry to force it to hunt for food.

Seems to work pretty well with our kids!

[redshirt1957]

Originally Posted by Taffi Abernathy

Many of us experience our animals as an extension of our family. Would you really want your cat mutilating a rodent then giving you kisses?! I think not. Yuck! My vote is for a mouse trap.

Your thought reminds me of a time I saw an ex-wife with her new husband and he became quite the jerk. All I said to him was "hope you have yet to kiss her". The ex starting laughing, and her new paycheck turned beet red.

[away36]

Originally Posted by C. Davidson

Get another cat. A young, hyper one. They love to hunt and play with mice...before they kill them dead.

Bongo, my large, fat cat, loves to kill roaches, grasshoppers and anything else that dares to enter my house. He will sit by the window for hours (as pictured), patiently waiting for some poor fellow to walk by. If he misses, Sammy and Mika are there for the kill. What's great is when they all triangulate whatever sorry prey they are about to kill, great teamwork. I love cats. So entertaining, better than animal planet.

Wow Chris. What a gorgeous cat!!!

[TheDude]

On a related note... Anyone care to have some plans to turn an old VCR into a cat feeder?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4IYZdGKXQ

[AWATCH]

Qiqi, our Maine coon cat is a certified Q-tip hunter, she can find and destroy any Q-tip in the house, she even opens the bathroom cabinets to get them out herself


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[Lisa]

Originally Posted by mikey

hmmm hmmm when i woke up this morning she was laying on the floor in front on my bedroom doorway very bright eyed and her food bowl is empty downstairs. Normally, I would here her eating. I talk to both of them. I told her i want her to catch that mouse! I have a mousetrap in my basement with old cheese on it for the past 6 months. The problem I have with setting them upstaris is the cat and dog accidently getting hurt by them. I have put 2 glue traps under the stove but I am sure they have 4-5 mice on them. Last year, I had a huge mouse problem til I got my cat in November and I spoiled her and didn't realize it now I am sure its more than one mouse.

If your glue traps were filled you'd know it by the smell.... blech... those glue things are horrid! What a way for a mouse to die... anyway, cheese isn't as good for bait as peanut butter. We've caught many a mouse (we have a "no kill" box trap) using peanut butter. You can put it behind the stove or somewhere where your pets can't get to it.

[Lisa]

PS - we had a mouse living IN our stove last Thanksgiving. I'd walk in to find him sitting on top and he'd dive in under the gas burners. My father in law said I should just fire up all the burners and roast the little bugger! Nah, we took the kind way out and got him with the peanut butter and box trap. Saved the girls some trauma, too, and they were delighted to carry the trap to the park and let him go.

[sexner]

Originally Posted by mikey

I decided to go in the kitchen yesterday and make myself a peanut butter sandwich. I opened the jar and opened the bread and a fat large mouse ran from the side of the Foreman grill down the side of the stove and my dog quickly came into the doorway cuz he heard the noise. I was looking around for my large fat cat and she was sleeping on the couch!. I am sure the mouse ran away from the back of the stove when I walked out the kitchen. So, what do i need to do to make my cat care about catching a mouse? Geez my dog is more responsive to the rodent than the cat. Advice please

You could get a freakishly large boa constrictor.

Good for two things:

Will eventually put an end to your mice, and

Should whip the fat cat into shape!

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by Lisa

PS - we had a mouse living IN our stove last Thanksgiving. I'd walk in to find him sitting on top and he'd dive in under the gas burners. My father in law said I should just fire up all the burners and roast the little bugger! Nah, we took the kind way out and got him with the peanut butter and box trap. Saved the girls some trauma, too, and they were delighted to carry the trap to the park and let him go.

Lisa, I'm scared to become your pet now... you might catch me in a trap... then your girls will carry me to the park and let me go! .

[mikey]

A few years ago, My brother and I were playing video games and out the corner of my eye I saw a shadow of something flying and it was a BAT! We bolted out the room amd we called the humane society and they sent a guy to catch it. He was afraid to enter the room, so the next day my mom was bitten by the bat and found out the bat was still in my mothers room on the inside of the curtain hanging upside down. My brother used a butterfly net to catch him and caught him running in the hallway with wings fully open like 2 feet wide and he killed it of course. We called humane society/police officer and he wrote in the report how horrible it was that the bat was killed. My mom was the victim yet he had compassion for the bat????We took her to the hospital and tested negative for rabies which was somewhat of a long process otherwise she would have had to get the 10 shots in her stomach area. We were relieved.