One of the joys of sharing your home with a cat.

Poor thing will be hungry now. I’d put a dollop of crunchy peanut butter on the floor and sit patiently on the bed with a lightweight towel. As it’s eating, throw the cloth over it and scoop it up.

Has worked a few times over the years.

I don’t have peanut butter but I have found that they like peas so I will get some from the freezer.
I am not doing this alone but my GD and her BF are on a half day today so we shall tackle it together
I do want to get it before Molly does, she will be locked in another room.

Good luck.

A cardboard poster tube, or the inside tube of bacofoil or similar.
Givesthe mouse safe respite from the cat overnight - and then you can free him (tip into a high bucket in the morning).
I used to keep a permanent poster tube under the bed just to save on disturbed sleep.

My son's house backs onto a small park and his 2 cats are in their element in the spring, catching baby mice and bringing them in through the cat flap.

My son has been known to get up at 3 am when he can hear scratching behind the wardrobe, he catches the mouse and puts it in a box with air holes, and drops it off a mile from home on his way to work the next day.

We have just had one of our cats rehomed. We were getting at least one a day and sometimes up to 3. I have a real fear of skittering things.

Our remaining cat sometimes leaves the chair and sits on the window seat - that's the sort of cat I can cope with.

Why not leave out some water for them. I understand they eat grains and greens and a little fruit-----none of those being particularly smelly items. If you put the comestibles in a open cage you may be able to trap the field mice and return them to the wild.

It is caught and safely back at the top of the garden, it was shivering poor thing.
It was probably in shock and I was very sad.
We just hope it finds its tribe, they nest under decking and we haven’t the heart to put poison down.
Sensible or not when we have so many cats around?

I think she has taken rehoming seriously .

I don’t think the photo will post.
She is hiding under cushions on an armchair.

Buy a humane mouse trap and then release it as far away from the house as possible. I think I had the only cat that was scared stiff of mice!!!!! It took me ages to get rid of them in our house. Oh and she didn’t like big spiders either!

Whoops, sorry I just read you post about it being caught and set free. Hope it finds its family.

I'm glad you managed to catch it poor wee thing. Our old boy has never been known to move fast at all but DDs female cat was forever bringing in presents for the family. She seems to have stopped now though. Phew.

One more try

Oh I see it posted.
You may get it twice now!

Sadly the mouse will probably die if the cat has had it in its mouth. It's sure to have broken the mouses skin and it gets infection from the cats teeth.
They are a menace bringing their gifts home. Once I had a dead Mole at the bottom of my bed. The same Cat on sunny evening shot in the house with a live Bat in her mouth , boy did we move quickly to get Cat with Bat out of the house. She was a killer but such a loving Cat... She will never be forgotten.
Good luck with the mouse. 🐭

Some time ago we had a Norwegian forest cat who was a great hunter. He never killed anything just brought it home and then lost interest. It was mostly field mice ,shrews and the occasional rabbit.

He had a cat flap that we always locked at night to keep him in. One-night we must have forgotten and we heard some very strange noises. When we went to investigate we found the cat having a wash and an owl sitting on the back of an armchair looking totally bemused.

He seemed totally unhurt but how the cat got him through the flap we will never know. He allowed me to carry him to the door and flew off glad to be free.

We think that cat and owl had both gone for the same mouse so it was the mouse's lucky day!

Preying on wild animals is the down -side of domestic pets. My lurcher used to bring live hedgehogs into its house,

A friend was woken by crashing sounds and found her cat trying to come through the cat flap backwards, with a duck in her mouth, unharmed.

We had a cat who was an avid hunter dropping living and dead small prey in the house expecting praise for her efforts. But we have had cats who have shown no appetite for this, usually Toms.

One of DD3's cats actually brought a duck in. They do lots of poo everywhere when they are scared.

Love cats but won't haveone because I do not want dead things brought home,enjoy

My cat brings in frogs in spring. He doesn't kill them though we have found the odd corpse which was unobserved on entry and has obviously subsequently died of dehydration ☹️. We have a pond in the garden and pop them onto lilypads to sort themselves out.

There's an occasional mouse but luckily fairly infrequent. I don't think he's very good at hunting, the frogs are easy to catch, even for us humans. We keep a frog catching kit (old sieve and piece of stuff cardboard) at the ready!

Lots of reasons why I never had a cat flap!