# Cats drowning mice **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 21, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666 "2016-11-21T18:14:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/21 "2016-11-23T10:32:10Z")
I had a cat who’d steal my toothbrush and leave it in her water dish. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/22 "2016-11-23T13:41:41Z")
> [@Newtosite](#): > > I had a cat who’d steal my toothbrush and leave it in her water dish. I’d say you win the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/23 "2016-11-23T13:49:55Z")
One of my calico monsters likes to take “toys” from the bathtub–bath puffs, the little plastic protective coverings that go over the blades of the pink razors, and especially any elastic hair ties I might leave hanging on the faucet knobs–and carry them downstairs to play with. No puffs or razor covers in the water fountain yet, but the hair ties often end up floating there like poor drowned, ouroboros worms and have to be fished out. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/24 "2016-11-23T13:57:19Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wouldn’t that be “rodent an jus”? OP, your cat is showing how to make some [bottled wine](http://www.uglyfood.com/2008/03/18/baby-mice-wine/) to sell and buy some more catnip already. [product is Chinese, not Korean as cite erroneously has it] ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/25 "2016-11-23T14:27:35Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Raccoons. Oh, that jolted the neuron! It wasn’t raccoons, it was [coatis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coati) (close enough though), and I saw them at a zoo not on TV. > [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Want to confuse the hell out of a raccoon? [Give it some cotton candy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkTzDh8IKNU) That’s a thing of unmitigated evil… [Here’s a longer version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eesxH2-8Jlo) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/26 "2016-11-23T15:19:16Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > That’s a thing of unmitigated evil… Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/27 "2016-11-23T15:22:36Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > People drown cats, and that’s where they laerned the effectiveness of the tactic. I wonder, though, how it got passed along through generations. When you see your cat putting rocks in a bag of mice, you know you’re in trouble. This is either very funny, or the dumbest thing I ever heard. I’m opting for the former and saying, “Oh, yeah!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/28 "2016-11-23T15:33:28Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > This is either very funny, or the dumbest thing I ever heard. I’m opting for the former and saying, “Oh, yeah!” How many cats does it take to patrol a lake and drown humans when they try to drown a cat? Perhaps they make a deal with raccoons. I’ve seen some pretty big 'coons. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/29 "2016-11-23T15:43:20Z")
[Raccoons teach them.](https://youtu.be/D3LpQkOpD20?t=1m29s) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/30 "2016-11-23T15:47:55Z")
I’ve found mice in my dogs water bowl and they weren’t swimming. Now I can blame the cat lol ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/31 "2016-11-23T16:05:01Z")
Diana The Evil Cat, mistress of Baggins House, does the same thing with small wool threads, she plays with them for a while and then drops them in her water bowl. Then she entertains herself for another while fishing them up. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666/32 "2016-11-23T16:29:50Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > This is either very funny, or the dumbest thing I ever heard. I’m opting for the former and saying, “Oh, yeah!” **David St. Hubbins** : It’s such a fine line between stupid, and uh… **Nigel Tufnel** : Clever. **David St. Hubbins** : Yeah, and clever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-drowning-mice/772666.md?page=1)