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[Deb Dav]

Our garden backs on to farmers fields which is great as no one over looks our garden or house. But..... we have Quiche the queen mouser/shrew/rabbits/rats etc.

 

We normally get a present each day which she will bring right up to us no matter where we are in the house (especially if a window is open), once dropped something on my ES's face while he was still in bed....YUM

 

Today she has brought in 12 mice She has obviously found a nest out in the field because the mice are getting smaller in size (when they are still whole ones), she has managed to eat most of them starting at the head!

 

Just wondering on this fine sunny Sunday afernoon if anyone else has such luxeries brought to them?

So starting with:

Quiche - 12 mice

[Redwing]

Starsky = 0 mice

 

He is more of a planner than a do-er

[Olly]

I doubt if anyone will beat that - respect to Quiche!

 

Welly - record five mice in one week

 

He almost always lays them neatly on the mat in the hall, now known as The Mouse Mat for obvious reasons. Occasionally he surprises me however by leaving one elsewhere, sometimes I don't find them for a day or two.

[BeckyBoo]

Frank the ferocious tabby tiger can't get anywhere near 12, but he does get squirrels. Thankfully nearly always dead (apart from one horrible incident a couple of years ago with a suffering broken backed one he left in the sweltering heat in the garden ) - he eats most of it, just leaves the tail and a bit of gut and once he left the head, neatly decapitated on the lawn so it looked as though it was buried up to its neck.

 

And we love cats because.......?

 

BeckyBoo

[Alis girls]

Two this week by Sandy the ginger tom. I nearly trod on one when hanging out the washing

[Seagazer]

Dave seems to be getting a mouse a day at the moment.

 

I rescued one from his grasp the other day, it was only a little iddy biddy one with huge black eyes. He'd been playing with it but it wasn't injured.

 

He had one last week that we tried to rescue but it was injured so we left it to him, I couldn't have attempted to kill it. He usually does eat them though

 

Trouble is he keeps bringing them in alive and then announcing very loudly to us that he's got one, it then escapes and we spend ages trying to find the pesky thing. I've spent a while clearing up mouse droppings from where one escaped recently - disgusting.

 

Quiche definitely sounds like a champion though.

[clucking mad woman]

nu-nu our cat brought in a crow and we had to get rspca to come get it.after chucking a laundry basket over it( it was running around the front room as nu-nu had disabled its wing)i wouldn't touch it. have you seen a crows beak up close?

[Seagazer]

yikes they are huge!

[CatieB]

One of our dear cats is currently catching rats.. they are huge and are left as a present on the drive. One each day for the past few days and DH has to get rid of them as I dont do "presents" from the cats.

 

We have set our cat flaps so they can only go out on their own and have to be let in to avoid the random presents in the house. They can come into the garage themselves and I often find bits of something u"Ooops, word censored!"vious - many a conversation has been had about what on earth it could be. In fact we had our boiler serviced this week and poor engineer found a dead bird in there! If there was a prize for random catchings we would be in with a shout

[..lay a little egg for me]

This week we have had left on the dining room carpet: tails of 2 squirrels (we presume the rest of the squirrels are inside the cats), 1 large rat (thank God it was dead), a very squeaky shrew which was chased around the dining room for several hours, the back legs of a rabbit and 3 more unidentified things as evidenced by just a bit of heart or liver remaining

 

I think it is Nigella who catches the critters but Ainsley likes to steal them off her and parade around claiming it was his catch!! It is definitely Nigella who eats them though because Ainsley has had all his molar teeth out!!

 

DS was rather taken with the soft tails of the squirrels and wanted to keep them

[beach chick]

oh god... makes my 3 look like wusses!

however - does anyone else occasionally find various small, quite clean, bodily organs around the house? I keep finding things which look vaguely like broad beans but are quite obviously the internal organs of some poor small creature, lovingly deposited at the foot of the stairs by one of the mogs.

and I have to admit, I will only intervene in a hunting scenario if the poor bird/mouse/frog/whatever in question looks as if it has a fighting chance - otherwise I just suspect I will end up with a mercy dash to the vet for some poor bit of wildlife, while if I harden my heart it will meet a natural end

[Chucky Mama]

My dog is an ace mouse and voler. She pounces like a cat and kills them with her feet. I thought she was just playing around when she kept poucing on walks but we started looking and found that she was pouncing on small furries

[Seagazer]

oh god... makes my 3 look like wusses!

however - does anyone else occasionally find various small, quite clean, bodily organs around the house? I keep finding things which look vaguely like broad beans but are quite obviously the internal organs of some poor small creature, lovingly deposited at the foot of the stairs by one of the mogs.

 

Oh yes - you are right that they look like broad beans - I knew there was a reason why I don't like broad beans I find quite a few body bits on my patio and thankfully OH goes down first in the morning and frequently clears little messes up.

 

In some ways though I think its better that they've eaten most of the poor little thing rather than just kill it for the sake of it.

[beach chick]

one of my favourite facts of all time (discovered due to my work for a petfood firm) is this:

 

ONE MOUSE CONTAINS 23 CALORIES !!!

isnt that just a fantastic thing to know?!

[Seagazer]

That must be why Dave is so slim

[CatieB]

one of my favourite facts of all time (discovered due to my work for a petfood firm) is this:

 

ONE MOUSE CONTAINS 23 CALORIES !!!

isnt that just a fantastic thing to know?!

 

No No No NOOOO I can't believe that - it must be that they are more calorie laden than that but they have already deducted the calories used to catch the darn thing and bat it around repeatedly before consumption

 

(thats what my cats do anyway)

[Alis girls]

Did my usual feeding chickens and bun in the dark this morning - later when it was light I noticed a dead mouse draped over the hosepipe It reminded me of the cartoons when someone is tied to train tracks and a train is coming.

[Gertie]

I think Bertie might have been trying to tell me that he wanted something different for breakfast. I found this on the food bowl last Saturday morning. Mouse still life!! He presented us with a mouse or rat each day for a week. This is the first time we have had two in one go though.

 

[Seagazer]

yikes I thought I'd had a bad mouse week!! That would have freaked me out.

 

We've had one deposited in the hallway with an awfully loud 'hello mum, look what I've brought you' call. This one was dead thank goodness. I'm so fed up of trying to catch them when he brings them in alive. Thankfully YS was in and deposited it in the bin for me.

 

The other was more tricky..... there'd been a shall we say interesting smell developing in the kitchen, I looked everywhere for where the smell was coming from. In the end OH moved the huge fridge freezer and it was a mouse decomposing obviously one of the ones that he likes to bring in alive and never managed to escape.

 

I really hope he grows out of catching mice.

[Alis girls]

GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSS show him the door

[Seagazer]

I can't do that - he's my gorgeous Dave. I have put a really noisy collar on him though. These usually don't last too long with him, he's only ever got one on for a few days. I've never had a cat like him (hopefully I won't again)!

[beach chick]

great picture Gertie!! almost nouvelle cuisine...

[Gertie]

I couldn't help laughing a bit when I saw them because it was so artistically done. I think I get off likely though - at least the mice are in one piece. It would freak me out to find entrails & organs!!! Yuk!