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cats and fieldmice
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I have recently moved to the country and have a big problem with my cat constantly killing field mice or me trying to catch them around the house because they have managed to get away. Has anyone got any ideas how I can make him stop? Thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Welcome to the world. My cat is always bringing mice, rats and lizards into the house. The lizards are alsways chomped in half, the mice run riot and I have to "broom" them out, luckily the rats are always dead on arrival, but as field rats are only like big mice. Wish I could stop this instinctive killing. In winter every robin which appears gets killed. I hate it but its nature.
The bell is a good idea but my vet is very against anything around the cat's neck s it can easily get hooked on a branch or whateve and strangle the cat. As tetherend and netibiza have said it's instinct and terefore unnatural to try and go against the grain. My cat has been brought up with birds in the house and has larnt he doesn't go for them - result he has never been known to attack birds outside, he sits where he can see them but doesn't bother them. He hunts rodents but has never brought one indoors.
when i lived in scotland, my old cat used to bring in rabbits!! real live big ones!!
it's like they all say above, it is instinct, can't do a lot about that i'm afraid!
my cat has a collar with a bell, but the collar is loose enough for him to get his head out of it if he gets stuck somewhere. he's never brought any animal back, but that may have something to do with him being a lazy old thing!
Netibiza, are you sure the lizards are actually chomped in half? The reason I ask is that I can remember one of my primary school teachers telling us that if you catch a lizard by its tail it'll break off and another will grow. I just wonder if this is what's happening with your cat but as cats have lightening reflexes the lizards are still not fast enough to escape.