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FUNNY cat event this morning
The goats' cat was waiting by the milk stand for her squirts of fresh goat milk when a very stupid mouse ran along the floor behind the milk stand. Miss Kitty moved like lightening and caught the mouse. Then, she looked at me, looked at her little milk dish, and said (with a mouth full of mouse), "Oh darn." Which is more important? Mouse? Milk?
She moved to the door and stood there contemplating the rain, still with the mouse in her mouth. Finally, she went out in the rain, passed the goat feeders, and disposed of the mouse somewhere. Then, she came back in the milk house and sat by her milk dish. I told her she was a WONDERFUL cat. She got extra milk. 
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02/13/12, 08:37 AM
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Lol!!!
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02/13/12, 08:39 AM
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Awwww! What a smart Kitty too! She knew just how to work it so she could have both!
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02/13/12, 10:46 AM
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My house cat doesn't like to eat them, but I give her treats for the catch and kill. One day she was meowing at me wanting treats and I told her "No mice, no treats!" We have bad problems with mice, so I really encourage her help. My DH called me after I'd been at work a few hours asking 'Why is that cat stacking up mice in the kitchen like cordwood?!?!" Think she'd found 5 or 6 LOL I had him give her lots of treats 
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02/13/12, 11:07 AM
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They are WAY smarter than we give them credit for.
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02/13/12, 11:09 AM
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LOL, I need to borrow your kitty
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02/13/12, 11:20 AM
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Too funny!
Some of our barn kitties pile around the stand during milking. One mama kept her kittens on the back porch. Every morning we'd have to be sure to not trip over them while feasting on a rat. Mama would sit near by & let them eat it first.
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02/13/12, 11:36 AM
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What a good kitty. We have two house cats that are great getting mice. I hope this new "tiger" we have outside does his job.
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02/13/12, 04:21 PM
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Good kitty! She deserved both the meat (mouse) and extra milk!!
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02/13/12, 04:37 PM
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They are SO much smarter than we give them credit for. You have a wonderful goat cat, Alice. 
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Originally Posted by CarolT
'Why is that cat stacking up mice in the kitchen like cordwood?!?!"
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02/13/12, 05:01 PM
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They are SO much smarter than we give them credit for. You have a wonderful goat cat, Alice.
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So true!
When we first got our big orange cat (he's 11 now), he would just hang out sleeping all day. One day dh tells him "get off your fat butt and kill a mouse or something!". The cat just stared at him.
Very next morning, there's a dead mouse on the doormat. He's never done it since, so I KNOW he understood. Had to prove a point...
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I have seen maybe 2 mice since we moved here over 2 years ago. That includes in all the outbuildings and everywhere outside and inside. What I do find is a lot of dead moles and barn swallows. Gopher here and there. I LOVE my cats..I have 5 outside and 3 inside. A couple are real duds when it comes to hunting. But they make up for it with lots of love I would say they are doing an excellent job! And boy do they take hunting seriously. A couple go away for the long periods of time in the summer. I think they are way out on the perimeter, in the fields, hunting. Just when I put up flyers is when they come home. Grrr...really. every time!
We have no neighbors. They are fixed and utd on vx.
Alice, I can just picture the look on your kitty's face! She made a plan and went with it. Smart kitty !!
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02/14/12, 05:52 AM
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When we lived in our former house, you had to be careful when stepping out the front door. We learned VERY early on to look at the doormat when we opened the door. It was the favorite depository for our 6 cats.
My funniest vermin story by far involves one of our cats that has passed on.
Apparently Casey wanted to share her victory with her humans. I mean REALLY share. Rather than leave them on the mat like usual, she wanted to bring this one inside. The house was brick and had deep window wells on the outside. She hopped up on the windowsill overlooking the dining table (during breakfast, of course) with a mouse in her mouth. When her imploring eyes didn't do the trick, she started asking to come in. Never dropping the mouse (who kept LOOKING at us, dang it) her mouth started turning up at the corners, alternating sides with each 'Mmmmrrrow? Mmmmmrrrow?'
Poor cat must have asked to come in for five minutes. I kept telling her, through the window, of course, that she HAD to leave it outside if she wanted in. Finally she laid the now expired mouse down on the windowsill- gotta put it somewhere no one else can get it- and walked over to the door. I let her in. Sugar went out and found the mouse. He didn't bother bringing it in, he just ate the thing.
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02/14/12, 06:20 AM
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don't mind when they bring me a mouse but the day my siamese jumped in the open window with a snake was a little to much
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02/14/12, 10:01 AM
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LOL, this thread brought a smile to my face.
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02/14/12, 10:54 AM
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Awww RamblinRoseRanch, she was just bringing her contribution to breakfast! When they leave them on the doormat, they see you as part of their "family" and are offering to share their kill with you
Years ago, I had an injured cat that I had to bring in for treatment and they whole time he was inside, his mom brought mice, birds, and other small animals and left them at the door. And he was grown by then! He didn't make it and she stopped bringing things the day he died and never did it again.
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02/14/12, 08:38 PM
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Smart girl!
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