Well, that was NOT a good idea!

Ravenlost · #1 01/09/08, 12:28 PM

Last week hubby installed a new cat door (the dogs tore the old one up). Thirty minutes ago my cat, Noelle, jumped through the pet door with a mouse in her mouth.

Now the mouse is hiding under the desk and Noelle has settled herself in front of it for the duration.

Sigh...I have a mouse running around my house and 14 dogs, eight cats and two humans can't catch it!!!

I'm thinking that cat door was a BAD BAD idea.

Terry W · #2 01/09/08, 12:54 PM

Set any type of mouse trap ALONG the baseboard--rodents like to follow edges.....

And as far as all the potential "predators" that can't catch that mouse... Mouse is probably laughing into his sleeve!

Ardie/WI · #3 01/09/08, 01:14 PM

That's why I won't have one of those doors. With my luck a raccoon would visit!

Ravenlost · #4 01/09/08, 02:04 PM

Ardie, we have possums that come into the garage to eat cat food. Wouldn't surprise me if one decides to come in the house one night!

Mouse is still under the desk. I don't have any mouse traps!

Cygnet · #5 01/09/08, 02:26 PM

Eh. With or without the cat door, rodents can get in if they want to.

In my house, I get rodents. I have four cats, all of whom fancy themselves great jungle hunters. The lifespan of a mouse in my house is generally measured in hours -- it is not all that unusual to find all four cats, for example, laying calmly in front of the hutch, waiting for the mouse to emerge.

With that many critters, I imagine somebody in your house will get the mouse sooner or later.

(Now, if I could just convince them not to leave the leftover bits on the bathroom floor, where I will step on it in the wee hours of the morning ...)

-- Leva

ginnie5 · #6 01/10/08, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Cygnet

(Now, if I could just convince them not to leave the leftover bits on the bathroom floor, where I will step on it in the wee hours of the morning ...)

-- Leva

LOl! isn't that the grossest thing? When we had cats indoors I'd have to get up every winter morning and pick up the pieces off the floor before the kids got up. YUCK! I swear I think they played tug o war with those mice.

TJN66 · #7 01/10/08, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ginnie5

LOl! isn't that the grossest thing? When we had cats indoors I'd have to get up every winter morning and pick up the pieces off the floor before the kids got up. YUCK! I swear I think they played tug o war with those mice.

Lol..that's gross but funny!

Ravenlost · #8 01/10/08, 03:44 PM

Well, as far as I know, the mouse is still under the desk. I haven't heard a squeak or seen hide nor hair of him since he ran under there yesterday.

If he's still alive, now's his chance. It's warm enough today that I have the back door open.

**Ross** · #9 01/10/08, 04:32 PM

We don't have a cat door. We have had the cats bring us live and dead frogs in bed first thing in the morning. Not sure how they do it.

NickieL · #10 01/10/08, 04:49 PM

Whats gross is when they leave a body, sans head, in your shoe.....

gina kay · #11 01/10/08, 06:09 PM

Dh and I came home from the city and found a chewed up field mouse in the middle of our bed! We had left 3 cats in the house with the door shut so don't know where the mouser found it.

Lynne · #12 01/10/08, 06:40 PM

LOL
If he isn't dead yet and hasn't escaped from the house; the mouse will be sport sooner or later for Noelle

Maxine, my kitten; brought me a dead mouse today - her first!
Lucky that I saw what she had in her mouth before opening the door.

Ravenlost · #13 01/10/08, 06:55 PM

I don't think it's under the desk any more. One of the puppies managed to squeeze his fat tummy under there and take a nap this afternoon. Surely that would have caused a ruckus if the mouse was still there!

Had a cat one time jump through the screen door into the living room with a live field rat...big ugly rat too. I ended up shutting all five cats in there overnight and the next morning all that was left was a tail and gallbladder. HEE HEE...

Rogo · #14 01/10/08, 08:26 PM

I've always had a doggie door 'cause I believe it's healthier for the critters to potty on their time, not mine. Often wondered about the rattler snakes, but the only thing that's come in in all these years is one of my chickens. Only happened once -- so far.

greeneyedgirl70 · #15 01/12/08, 12:08 AM

We had been thinking about getting a doggie door for our little dogs to go in and out on there own but you have me thinking twice about that now!

COSunflower · #16 01/12/08, 01:00 PM

We've had a doggie door for years...and have had skunks come in 3 different times - the last time was the night before my son's wedding! Luckily all our wedding clothes were in the closets but I'm sure that we still had at LEAST a faint skunky smell!!! The cats HAVE brought in their treasures also....the perils of a doggie door! LOL

Ravenlost · #17 01/12/08, 01:26 PM

Yesterday I thought my cat Fergus had found the mouse. He was lying on the kitchen floor trying to catch something under the stove. I pulled out the oven drawer so he could get under there, but all he came out with was a dust bunny!

Still no sign, or smell, of the mouse.

Queen Bee · #18 01/14/08, 08:59 PM

Don't be too hard on the cats and dogs! I came home one day to find that my dd's hamster had escaped and was gone..we had 3 cats and 4 Dachshunds and a hound in the house. I just knew that someone had eaten Erma (the hamster) dd was very sad.. moved the cage to the basement..WELL a week later, I stood at the kitchen sink running dish water and feel a little body on my foot--it was Erma! Alive and well...with a mouth packed full of blackeyed peas! Had to throw the entire bag of peas away..

If the mouse is smart he headed back out the cat /dog door, as soon as it got dark--after a dinner of kitty food/dog food-of course.

. IF you set traps your cats, dogs will get their nose caught in them.. QB

Ravenlost · #19 01/15/08, 12:24 PM

I don't have any traps. Mousie has either escaped the house or is hiding somewhere.

airotciv · #20 01/15/08, 04:48 PM

LOL, no cat or dog doors. We did have, until we had a racoon and a Opossium come to visit. I really hated being woke up in the middle of the night with a kid telling me "there's something in the bathroom" only to find wild life. This is not counting the many snakes, mice and birds that the cats would bring in and release.