I love our cat ...BUT!....

I'm dreading our holiday in July as I expect a charnal house when we get back. My lovely neighbour is feeding them-(I do hers when they go away) but she won't find all the bodies (she doesn't eat them) unless she searches the whole house every day. I'll have to shut all the upstairs doors although they are very good at door opening!
Not as adept as I am getting at catching lively mice though! I've got it down to a fine art now & I have bought some humane traps for the ones who get away.
Yesterday we have another large wood pigeon but I caught her on the door step & set it free although it had lost quite a few feathers- I hope it was alright.
I've found a louder bell too - not that it seems to make much difference.

Mine brings mice in dead, usually, but if it is cold outside, alive and chases them all round the sitting-room before devouring them on the front doormat in the hall.

I had to put my foot down very firmly about birds, dead or alive, being brought in to be eaten in the kitchen. Finally, they got the point when I had spent an entire summer carting cats with birds out into the garden again.

Close the cat-flap and don't let her in if there is a tail sticking out of the corner of her mouth!

My feline girlie has never killed anything or brought anything in since we adopted her 8 years - I don't think she'd be agile or quick enough but the old boy who is now 11 has brought all sorts in. Usually mice which he has eaten and left gruesome evidence on the floor but sometimes he lets them go and we have to try to catch them. I've also had frogs, baby rabbits, once a baby hare and even a lizard over the years.. He doesn't kill birds any more - I've seen him just sitting outside watching them obviously can't be bothered but all of my previous cats would if they got the chance. It always amazed me that the blackbirds would come back year on year to nest in the hedge!

I suppose we like to bring animals into our homes as ‘pets’.
Irritatingly, they have inbuilt animal characteristics.
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Falconery bell. It works

Oh well! Just removed another very lively mouse from hall. Cat is locked in dining room howling with disapproval at being parted from latest offering.
At least I have no bodies to dispose of & the other 3 don't hunt.

Tara is 14 and still very fit but thankfully has stopped hunting.

My cat is 16. Last summer we had lots of baby mice brought in. Sorry!

Yes, ninathenana, that looks familiar!

Our neighbour's cat moved in with us (an amicable arrangement as the cat doesn't like the new dog in her house). She's always been a hunter and delights in bringing us mice and voles (we've got pretty slick at catching them) and rabbits past rescue. She does catch birds, but less often. I found a mouse living happily under the telephone table the other day. We caught it with a humane trap and I let it go. I wondered why it looked at me in such a bewildered fashion when it was outside - then discovered, while clearing away the nest it had made, that it must have been indoors for some time. Our own, older, cat hunts very little but previous cats have been keen hunters. We once came home to find a woodcock in the conservatory - goodness knows how the cat got it through the catflap. Generally, our cats have reduced their hunting as they've got older - so I wish you luck!!

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No sorry, I think they have to be quiet old and infirm before they give up. Our previous cat was still catching things at 10y.o. before she developed a tumour.
This was the scene that greeted me on Monday thanks to our current cat