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[Yahooey]

If your cats are nearby, they want the mouse to move do they can chase it. It must be injured, no mouse just sits in the open. You are bigger and stronger. Yeah, I'm one to talk.

[Preds]

Sounds like the mouse is injured or he would be getting out of there. Cats may have put a puncture wound in him. You might be able to get him under the bucket, but since you are afraid of him, I wouldn't try it. He's not trying to go anywhere so I bet he's already dying.

[Shorty2U]

He is now at the bottom of our steps blended in to side, and the 1 cat just looks at it. (the other 2 cats are upstairs probably sleeping. I cant get over it. I MUST go get ready for my appt. I have sneakers on so I will have to bite the bullet and just go get ready. I cant believe how sick I am over a mouse. I feel like throwing up. But I cant go to the Dr like this. I must shower!

[muttmom]

Since the poor thing hasn't scrambled away in over an hour, he's either dead or dying.

[Buck-i-Nana]

On 8/8/2014 Shorty2U said:

Thank you for understanding. (I feel like a nut!).

I went to get a bucket thinking I can put it over the mouse. Now the mouse is up against the woodwork just sitting so I cant get the bucket around it. (I HOPE its injured from our cat but I dont know). Because earlier as I said 2 of our 3 cats were sitting there watching the mouse roll over, walk, and did nothing but watch it. I watched the whole thing w my own eyes and couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Now Im thinking where theres one mouse theres more. I have the creeps. I must go up and get ready, my husband will be home in a bit over an hour to take me to my pain Dr.

I bet my husband comes in and picks that mouse up with his bare hands! (Brrrrrr I could vomit).

And PS Im calling an exterminator. When I had the mice at my appt. (when we were dating) my husband tried to use a bate thing to trap and release and we saw a mouse walk by it. They don't work. And I picture my husband to argue w me about an exterminator. OK I love animals too, just not mice!

Please make sure the exterminator you call doesn't use those awful glue traps. Even a nuisance critter like a mouse deserves a more human death than those glue traps result in.

Not all cats are mousers. I had 18 cats at one point in time and only ONE of them was a mouser! I have a Jack Russell terrier mix who is the best mouser/small rodent killer I've ever seen.

[terrier3]

My first wire fox terrier was a fantastic mouser. We used to put him on a pulley type run in my mom's yard and he always managed to find (and play with) a field mouse!

Terriers are bred to kill vermin...they are just as good at it as cats, IMO.

[occasionalrain]

For G's sake kill the poor suffering thing. No wonder women aren't taken seriously when we have ones that act like helpless children.

[Buck-i-Nana]

On 8/8/2014 terrier3 said:

My first wire fox terrier was a fantastic mouser. We used to put him on a pulley type run in my mom's yard and he always managed to find (and play with) a field mouse!

Terriers are bred to kill vermin...they are just as good at it as cats, IMO.

Oh boy, my girl can hear the voles and she digs them up and kills them. My yard, when she was young, looked like the surface of the moon!

I think terriers are actually better than cats because they go straight for the kill instead of playing with their victim for a while and risk them getting away.

[Allegheny]

Mice in the house aren't my favorite thing either. I had three cats, mostly all house raised and they would just think a mouse was another novelty. However, I have compassion for most living things. When I found a mouse in our bedroom, I frankly reasoned with myself, realizing I was being silly and managed to catch it in a shoebox and put it outside.

I know if you see one mouse, there are probably more, so my brother set traps in the attic and garage and took care of them so I didn't have to see the carnage.

[docsgirl]

Many years ago we had a cat. We also had a mouse in the house. We were shocked to find that the cat and mouse developed a friendship. The mouse was adorable. I would put cheese in the cat's bowl and both of them ate out of the same bowl. When the cat would take a nap, the mouse would sit right next to him. It was the strangest but most precious relationship we ever witnessed. Our neighbors had two cats. They also had mice. The cats would sit near their litter boxes and watch the mice run back and forth. Perish the thought they should move to go after the mice. My neighbor said, "These cats eat me out house and home but refuse to work for their food." Too funny!!! docsgirl