Maybe half the time the mouse is alive, which I assume is some sort of desire to teach me to hunt. I will take a dead (it was dead wasn’t it) pigeon over a spirited living mouse any day.
When we first moved in we put up our bird feeders in the back yard and I remember joking with my wife that she was just killing birds because clearly the mouser was just going to stalk the feeders … 8 million moles, shrews, lizards and mice later the birds have, it seems, nothing to fear.
Not to further derail my own post but last weekend, while the wife was upstairs the beast came home with an unharmed mouse and promptly dropped it near the couch. For about 30 minutes I chased the mouse from corner to nook to book case in the living room, the cat ‘bird dogging’ for me the whole time. One hour later, mouse still avoiding my best attempts to toss it back into the back yard I noticed the cat wasn’t in the room anymore. I yelled to the wife, “Have you seen the cat?”
That’s a great idea Maas … I’ll bring it up. German shelters, because too many American service members are not responsible pet owners, aren’t very friendly to Americans but I’ll give it a try.
Good! I don’t know whre you are in Germany, but not every town has such a Trap Neuter Release (and socialize any feral kittens) program. Sometimes it is just an individual who does this. Anyway, your shelter should be able to tell you where the nearest program is. You might even want to cross the border; I know such programs exist in Nijmegen and in Maastricht. I also know that the summer is rush hour for kittens; my shelter is in desperate need for socializing homes.