# A note to my cat, thou excellent mouser **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881 "2014-01-04T15:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/21 "2014-03-13T19:05:10Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > At first I was taken aback by the fact that when you hunt down those wee vermin, you inevitably deposit them in our bed at 2 or 3AM, accompanied by noises like “prowt?” or “peh!” On further reflection, however, I’ve decided that this is far better than you just leaving them, dead, wherever you happened to kill them (assuming of course that you don’t always find them in our bed to begin with \). > > Keep up the good work, and Godspeed thou black merchant of death. Not to be a thread killer per se, but you all know that the occupational hazard of mousers is worms, riiight? Might wanna reconsider things since your wee beasties can transmit said worms to you and yours. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/22 "2014-03-13T19:21:51Z")
It just a phase your cat’s going through. It takes time to teach them to kill the fool things first. Next is teaching your cat to go ahead and eat it herself, then work on her only eating things that actually fit in her stomach … or you may learn the true horrors of what a cat can do to a bedspread at 4 am. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/23 "2014-03-13T20:20:47Z")
Update on Ginger: At 4am, I was awakened by Ginger jumping on the bed. I turned the light on and found her first mouse present to me. Ginger is doing her best to take Storm’s place; I’ll always miss Storm but I don’t feel so alone. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/24 "2014-03-15T11:01:55Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I thank you, young Miss; your title did scan. I’m actually an old mister, but if that’s going to stop you from writing me lovely poems, I can always pretend. 😉 > [@wolfman](#): > > Yeah, the cat is typing on a message board somewhere about what a pathetic hunter you are, and that no matter how much she tries, or how easy she makes it, you are just to dumb to get it. I read that to my wife. First she laughed a lot, and then she made me repeat it to my son. 🙂 > [@watchwolf49](#): > > It just a phase your cat’s going through. It takes time to teach them to kill the fool things first. Next is teaching your cat to go ahead and eat it herself, then work on her only eating things that actually fit in her stomach … or you may learn the true horrors of what a cat can do to a bedspread at 4 am. Yikes. So I think what I’m aiming for here is half-dead; inert enough to throw into the woods, but not gorily spread across the duvet. It’s a fine line! > [@Scubaqueen](#): > > Not to be a thread killer per se, but you all know that the occupational hazard of mousers is worms, riiight? > Might wanna reconsider things since your wee beasties can transmit said worms to you and yours. :eek: What’s to reconsider? We live in New England now, not Texas; so, while we don’t have cockroaches, waterbugs, or scorpions in our house, we do have mice. She goes to the vet regularly and isn’t actually eating them, so we’ll take our chances. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Merton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Frank\_Merton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_Merton)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/25 "2014-03-15T12:20:59Z")
I keep my cats indoors. That way I don’t get any “gifts” of poor birds or other specimens of the local life, and they have reasonable chance of living a normal life. No sign of mice, even in our spacious basement. I think the mice know when there are several cats about. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/26 "2014-03-15T21:46:13Z")
Only one of our cats brings us anything, and even then it’s just toys–usually foam rubber golf balls. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/27 "2014-03-16T01:30:41Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’m actually an old mister… Whoops! Not sure why I though otherwise. Try this: _I thank you, good gent; your title did scan. As for me–well, I’m just a wordy old man…_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/28 "2014-03-16T03:34:54Z")
> [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](#): > > Update on Ginger: At 4am, I was awakened by Ginger jumping on the bed. I turned the light on and found her first mouse present to me. > > Ginger is doing her best to take Storm’s place; I’ll always miss Storm but I don’t feel so alone. Hooray and eww…? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/29 "2014-12-23T03:04:27Z")
So last night she went into full catch-and release mode again in our bed, this one not only 100% alive, but actually chittering angrily at her like the doughty mouse warrior from one of my kids’ fantasy novels. This was complicated by the fact that our daughter had crawled into bed because a movie we watched scared her… as a result, at 3 AM mayhem ensued and the fucking mouse escaped. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/30 "2014-12-23T03:36:47Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > So last night she went into full catch-and release mode again in our bed, this one not only 100% alive, but actually chittering angrily at her like the doughty mouse warrior from one of my kids’ fantasy novels. This was complicated by the fact that our daughter had crawled into bed because a movie we watched scared her… as a result, at 3 AM mayhem ensued and the fucking mouse escaped. > [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Hah! I think she’s trying to teach you how to hunt - bringing dead prey first, then half-alive… 😉 …then FULLY alive. She’s upping the challenge level for you. Be proud! She obviously thinks you have potential 🙂 ( or maybe she has given up on you, but thinks your daughter might have a shot ). ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/31 "2014-12-23T14:06:36Z")
Now that MOM is getting up in years the cats like to see if the knee transplant took by turning loose chipmunks in the house. Lil’ Bro is a wee bit faster than Ma and he grabs them in a net as the cats enjoy the show. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881/32 "2014-12-23T16:48:30Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > …then FULLY alive. She’s upping the challenge level for you. Be proud! She obviously thinks you have potential 🙂 ( or maybe she has given up on you, but thinks your daughter might have a shot ). lol. I am so not up to this. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-my-cat-thou-excellent-mouser/677881.md?page=1)