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

You can buy a cat flap that recognises when a cat has prey in its mouth and doesn't let them in. It was on Dragons Den I think.

ROMILO

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!

They were probably just waiting for you to provide them with a beautiful pea green boat.

My last remaining cat has never shown any inclination to hunt. His routine is eat, sleep, repeat, with just a brief stroll round the garden and a munch on the cat nip which gives him the energy to rush back into the house and promptly catch up on his sleep! All my previous cats were murderers when it came to wildlife - they'd have a go at anything, so this present cat is an absolute pleasure .

Butter wouldn’t melt,,, cats have no sense of wrongdoing as I am told dogs do.
She is going to be kept in at night and if that doesn’t suit she will be confined to the utility room which is where the cat flap is.

This is one reason why we never let the cat roam the house at night. He loves to bring us live presents but at least they are confined to the kitchen. Even that can have problems as he once let a mouse go and it went up inside the washing machine. Had to get a repair man out to retrieve the body!
Thank goodness for humane traps !

Put your cat in the bedroom and lock the door. It will soon find this mouse if it still there. And probably kill it. If not get a good Rentokil mouse trap. Easy to set

Then you can bury the dead mouse in a small grave in your garden.

I am afraid l am not a great lover of mice. One they get in the walls of your building. Very difficult to get rid of.

They are also classed as Vermin..Urinate all over the place and carry disease. Not cute in my book.

Lots of reasons why I never had a cat flap!

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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. 🐭

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

One more try

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.

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

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!

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

I think she has taken rehoming seriously .

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?

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.

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.