# OMG Theres a mouse in my food. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-theres-a-mouse-in-my-food/660114 "2013-06-04T14:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-theres-a-mouse-in-my-food/660114/1 "2013-06-04T14:36:27Z")
Says the scared cat. 😛 This cat is no mouser. No sir. I’ll just quietly lap my water while Mr. Mouse enjoys my dinner. [Fraidy-cat loses his dinner.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335619/What-Tom-Jerry-say-Brazen-mouse-enjoys-food-food-bowl-bemused-cat-looks-on.html) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-theres-a-mouse-in-my-food/660114/2 "2013-06-04T14:38:12Z")
And this is in a newspaper? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-theres-a-mouse-in-my-food/660114/3 "2013-06-04T14:40:42Z")
Newspapers post cute human interest stories too. 😃 Some really good photos. Reminds me of my uncle’s useless cat. He got a cat because of mice. The cat never killed a any mice ever. But she was darn cute! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-theres-a-mouse-in-my-food/660114/4 "2013-06-04T15:35:23Z")
let the mouse fatten up before eating. it’s strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-theres-a-mouse-in-my-food/660114/5 "2013-06-04T17:50:25Z")
I don’t think my cat knows how to _kill_ a mouse, but she sure did love playing with one that one time. We don’t know if the mouse was in the house and she nabbed it, or if she nabbed it outside and brought it into the house (to share with us, because she’s giving like that). She grabbed it up and zoomed back outside with it, so who knows. She did know that her mouth goes around the mouse, at least, even if Mr. Mouse didn’t end up dead. 🙂 Those are some very good pictures. I was wondering, however, how long you let the mouse stay in your house and take pictures of it before you get something to catch the mouse with. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-theres-a-mouse-in-my-food/660114/6 "2013-06-04T21:24:02Z")
Isn’t that kind of how cats operate, they don’t so much as kill anything as play it to death. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-theres-a-mouse-in-my-food/660114/7 "2013-06-04T21:30:02Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Isn’t that kind of how cats operate, they don’t so much as kill anything as play it to death. Yeah, they play with it until it gets all used up and breaks and then it’s no fun any more. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-theres-a-mouse-in-my-food/660114/8 "2013-06-05T07:14:13Z")
I’m pretty sure fresh mouse tastes better than kibble.