Well. Efficient cat.

[jenett]

I came home from a very nice dinner party to discover a much troubled small field mouse on the rug inside my house. And a cat who had obviously batted it around into submission, but was not sure what to do with it next.

(I've had one of these before: this time she was apparently more efficent, as it was less mobile.)

I made use of beaten up tupperware, scooped it gently into container, deposited it outside on the grass well away from people's lawns, and left it there, throwing the tupperware out on the way back. The cat is now sniffing the front room rug and looking around in the way that small domesticated predators do just in case they're needed again.

I expect it got in at some point via the front porch, since the house proper is fairly well sealed up from gaps, but I will keep an eye out.

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[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

Count yourself lucky. I went into the kitchen one day and found several curious cats sitting in a circle around a very still juvenile opossum. Occasionally one of the cats would reach out a paw and poke the poor little thing, as if to suggest that the cat was saying "Did you see it move? I could swear that I saw it moving earlier."

I got a heavy leather glove and picked the poor little thing up and took it outside and set it in the undergrowth near a treeline.

Cat also enjoy it when bats get inside the house. Flying mice are GREAT toys!

[jenett]

lilairen has a story about something like that, only with a larger opposum and less helpful cats. (Particularly amusing since hers are sizeable cats.)

We have not had bats in the house. We occasionally get them at work, which tends to bemuse me (before going and calling the maintenance folks, who have useful tools, like nets, and calming down any screaming people who happen to wander by.)