Do cats eat mice?

[DWBass]

I know ferel cats and some house cats that were born of ferel cats will and I've seen them. My cat, however, will grab it, injure it slightly and just putt it around the house but for some reason won't kill it. The mouse usually escapes and never returns which is fine by me.

 

[middy]

The cats I had as a kid ate their prey. Well, most of it. They would leave heads, limbs, wings, piles of guts, feathers and fur. Sometimes just a fluffy bunny cottontail and a pair of ears (the Playboy special).

I used to love that horrible crunching sound as they chewed through bones or bit down on a big bug.

 

[McHack]

Cat's will eat ANY critter they can kill! I used to have a black cat, named Vader who would eat mice, birds (robins & mockingbirds) & RABBITS!

He'd leave them half eaten, on my doorstep as if to say, "Look what I brought you!"...

Interestingly, my ex HAD a 2nd black cat named... "Middy" who did the same stuff.

 

[Lost Drummer]

Cat's are useful though.

onetime i was hanging out in my room and a fly came in and started annoying me. So I went and got my cat and showed the fly to her. It took less than seven seconds before she fixed my fly problem.

Good Kitty.

 

[Buzzgroove]

Cats are great, they'll eat just about anything they can catch, flies, spiders and other nasty insects. Watched a friend's cat eat a mouse one day, crunched his way through the whole thing including it's head then sucked it's tail up between his teeth like spaghetti! Kid you not, it was amazing to watch, the only thing he left uneaten was the gall bladder.

Pleased to say my youngest cat is starting to do the same, just part of the cat thing.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

Not mice, but I've skinned, marinated, and bbq'd a rat before. Didn't have a lot of meat on it. Not too bad though.

 

[Bard2dbone]

Does she do stand-up comedy? That sounds hilarious! And sings, too? Not fair! Too much talent. And she gets chicks too...

She didn't exactly do stand-up. But she was at least as funny as any stand up comic I've seen in years.

And my God, you should hear her sing. She has two very different personalities when writing songs. Some are just gorgeous. And some are bitingly hilarious.

Hilariously funny? Check.
Voice of an angel? Check.
Amazing satyrical songs AND ballads? Check.
Hot to look at? Not so much. She's 56 and has gotten kind of dumpy.



I actually had an image in my mind of what she should look like based on her voice. I was WAY off. I hope this will link to a sample of the song she wrote for her dad about how much had changed during his life.

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Just now looking at her website, I discovered she had a song about one of the canned cats from when he was still alive. Her cat, Lou got hit by a car. She wanted to cheer him up while the vet was working on him.

Meow


Meow
Words And Music By
Cheryl Wheeler

Straightenin' out your back legs, stretching in my arms
Yawning, blinking, curling back around
Your dismissive glances slap me back somehow
Meow, meow, meow

Sleepin' on the big bed, the sultan slips the scene
Chasing something running in your dream
I am so enchanted, with your twitch and growl
Meow, meow, meow
I see you in Memphis on the Nile in the spring
Swinging through some palace doing your Egyptian king thing
You perceive my function, 24 a day
Is to do, for you, anything you say
Where'd you get that notion? How come I kowtow?
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow
Yeah buddy, meow, meow, meow

 

[Bard2dbone]

And here's the one about her cat having a birthday party:

My Cat's Birthday
Words And Music By
Cheryl Wheeler

On my cat's birthday the mice did sway
And the squirrels did dance around
The dogs went nuts when they heard such fuss
Hustled out to party down
The little birds tap danced all around the ants
Movin' in a cunga line
Weasel band played, lady bugs made
Crocus & azalea wine

Sittin' at the tables in their pirate blouses
Guess they got the furniture from outta their houses
Out back at the volleyball
Toads had to argue every call
Crows showed up in the cop outfits
Holsters slidin' off their hips
Deer hung back by the garden shed
Turkeys scratched in the flower bed

On my cat's birthday the birthday cake
Was several stories high
Cats ate down along the ground
Birds ate in the sky
Oh and the squirrels ate too from the edge of the roof
Until they finally jumped right in
But the band played on till the cake was gone
We'll never see another again

Catnip came and it all went south
Where did that goldfinch get that mouth?
Dogs growlin' over bones they'd buried
A rabbit & a robin got married
Band started singing 'bout a love so deep
Guest of honor drifted off to sleep
Curled around another old cat dream
And that's how Penrod turned fifteen

 

[srxplayer]

My cats never kill anything they are sissy house cats, but my friends cat will kill and eat gophers...and then puke them up on the base of his Corvettes windshield. It gets down into the vent area below the edge of the hood. It's gross and really makes him mad. This cat has done that twice in the last 6 months.

 

[Johnny Crab]

We DO wish our outdoor cats AND dogs would learn to chase and/or exterminate those wonderful, ankle-breaking hole makers called armadillos and possums. Save us some trouble and surprises.

 

[SuperDuck]

Woohoo! Mouse #2 is history.

My two cats (they're still kittens really, about 1 yr.) are totally earning their keep. We were just watching a movie and not ten minutes ago I heard Nico (Nicodemus) growling up a storm. I came into the room to see him trotting under the guest bed with a mouse hanging from his mouth. It wasn't moving and I got Nico to drop it, but that's when the mouse ran away.

The hunt began. My cats went into ass-kicking mode, and after much flushing from Jen and I Becker (thats Baron Leopold von Becker, Destroyer of Worlds to you) came out victorious. Again, Jen's compassion let the mouse live and he was evicted to the other side of the street.

I <3 my cats!

 

[SuperDuck]

Natural born killaz

Best watch yoself, fool.