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On Oct 26, 12:36 am, Marina wrote:
> Miranda caught a mouse in the enclosure this morning! I don't know how
> it got into the enclosure. Must have been via the manhole or maybe it
> squeezed between the netting and the wall. Must have been one of these
> suicidal mouses we've been talking about. To deliberately squeeze into a
> cat enclosure! I don' think much of mice's sense of smell.
>
> Mir was so excited. Caliban tried to take it off her, but she hissed and
> growled at him. Paws off my prize! She wouldn't come inside even for
> turkey. She's been watching outside for hours, and then she finally
> nabbed it.
>
> --
> Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Wow, *that* must have been exciting!
Talk about "suicidal mousies"....the shelter director told me a mouse
got
in the enclosure at the shelter. She said there were 15 cats huddled
in a
little circle, and she went to see what was up. She said it looked
like
they were having a meeting. :-)

Sherry
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Marina wrote:
> Mir was so excited. Caliban tried to take it off her, but she hissed and
> growled at him. Paws off my prize! She wouldn't come inside even for
> turkey. She's been watching outside for hours, and then she finally
> nabbed it.

What did she do with it? Did she eat it?

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"Marina" wrote in message

> Miranda caught a mouse in the enclosure this morning! I don't know how it
> got into the enclosure. Must have been via the manhole or maybe it
> squeezed between the netting and the wall. Must have been one of these
> suicidal mouses we've been talking about. To deliberately squeeze into a
> cat enclosure! I don' think much of mice's sense of smell.
>
> Mir was so excited. Caliban tried to take it off her, but she hissed and
> growled at him. Paws off my prize! She wouldn't come inside even for
> turkey. She's been watching outside for hours, and then she finally nabbed
> it.

You don't say specifically, but I'm guessing she killed it. As I've
mentioned before, Stinky has a "catch and release, catch and release again,
catch and release again, repeat until mousie gets away or Mommy catches me
and takes mousie away or mousie dies accidentally and is no fun anymore"
policy. :O

Stinky's first mouse was actually a dead one found by Mimi (RB). I had
never seen either of them so excited before. It was a lesson for me--
nothing gets your darling pampered "pet's" attention like real, smelly prey.
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On 2007-10-26 00:36:11 -0500, Marina said:

> Miranda caught a mouse in the enclosure this morning! I don't know how
> it got into the enclosure. Must have been via the manhole or maybe it
> squeezed between the netting and the wall. Must have been one of these
> suicidal mouses we've been talking about. To deliberately squeeze into
> a cat enclosure! I don' think much of mice's sense of smell.
>
> Mir was so excited. Caliban tried to take it off her, but she hissed
> and growled at him. Paws off my prize! She wouldn't come inside even
> for turkey. She's been watching outside for hours, and then she finally
> nabbed it.

Did she eat it or play with it? :D Mir the Big Hunter!
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Marina wrote:
Must have been one of these
>suicidal mouses we've been talking about. To deliberately squeeze into a
>cat enclosure!

We have a winner for the mouse Darwin Award 2007!

Lesley

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Karen wrote:
> On 2007-10-26 00:36:11 -0500, Marina said:
>
>> Miranda caught a mouse in the enclosure this morning! I don't know how
>> it got into the enclosure. Must have been via the manhole or maybe it
>> squeezed between the netting and the wall. Must have been one of these
>> suicidal mouses we've been talking about. To deliberately squeeze into
>> a cat enclosure! I don' think much of mice's sense of smell.
>>
>> Mir was so excited. Caliban tried to take it off her, but she hissed
>> and growled at him. Paws off my prize! She wouldn't come inside even
>> for turkey. She's been watching outside for hours, and then she
>> finally nabbed it.
>
> Did she eat it or play with it? :D Mir the Big Hunter!
>
People are asking what she did with it. I thought she had killed it. She
was holding it in her mouth and growling and hissing through it at
Caliban. I dragged Caliban inside to keep him away from her prey,
because I thought she had earned a moment to play with it by herself.
Caliban was frantic and tried to go through the glass doors to the
enclosure. Later I realised the mousie was still alive and she was
catching and releasing it to play with it.

I'm not sure what happened with it in the end. I doubt that she ate it,
but I didn't find a body. Maybe it got away in the end.

Though I can see why some people think mice are cute, I grew up with
indoor/outdoor cats, and learned from a baby to view small rodents as
cat food. This is why I didn't do anything to save it, even after I saw
it was alive. Mir was just doing what comes naturally to her. And she
was sooo excited!

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"Marina" wrote in message

> Miranda caught a mouse in the enclosure this morning! I don't know how it
> got into the enclosure. Must have been via the manhole or maybe it
> squeezed between the netting and the wall. Must have been one of these
> suicidal mouses we've been talking about. To deliberately squeeze into a
> cat enclosure! I don' think much of mice's sense of smell.
>
> Mir was so excited. Caliban tried to take it off her, but she hissed and
> growled at him. Paws off my prize! She wouldn't come inside even for
> turkey. She's been watching outside for hours, and then she finally nabbed
> it.
>

Boyfie sends his congratulations to Mir. He reckons there is nothing better
than catching a mowsie, or a rattie, or a collared dove. It's so exciting.

Tweed
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Marina wrote:

> Though I can see why some people think mice are cute, I grew up with
> indoor/outdoor cats, and learned from a baby to view small rodents as
> cat food.

LOL, perhaps a mother cat taught you that, the same way she would teach
her kittens the same thing? :)

Joyce
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Lesley via CatKB.com wrote:

> Marina wrote:

>> Must have been one of these suicidal mouses we've been talking
>> about. To deliberately squeeze into a cat enclosure!

> We have a winner for the mouse Darwin Award 2007!

LOL!!

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Marina wrote:
> Karen wrote:
>> On 2007-10-26 00:36:11 -0500, Marina
>> said:
>>> Miranda caught a mouse in the enclosure this morning! I don't know
>>> how it got into the enclosure. Must have been via the manhole or
>>> maybe it squeezed between the netting and the wall. Must have been
>>> one of these suicidal mouses we've been talking about. To
>>> deliberately squeeze into a cat enclosure! I don' think much of
>>> mice's sense of smell. Mir was so excited. Caliban tried to take it off
>>> her, but she hissed
>>> and growled at him. Paws off my prize! She wouldn't come inside even
>>> for turkey. She's been watching outside for hours, and then she
>>> finally nabbed it.
>>
>> Did she eat it or play with it? :D Mir the Big Hunter!
>>
> People are asking what she did with it. I thought she had killed it.
> She was holding it in her mouth and growling and hissing through it at
> Caliban. I dragged Caliban inside to keep him away from her prey,
> because I thought she had earned a moment to play with it by herself.
> Caliban was frantic and tried to go through the glass doors to the
> enclosure. Later I realised the mousie was still alive and she was
> catching and releasing it to play with it.
>
> I'm not sure what happened with it in the end. I doubt that she ate
> it, but I didn't find a body. Maybe it got away in the end.
>
> Though I can see why some people think mice are cute, I grew up with
> indoor/outdoor cats, and learned from a baby to view small rodents as
> cat food. This is why I didn't do anything to save it, even after I
> saw it was alive. Mir was just doing what comes naturally to her. And
> she was sooo excited!

I wonder if that mouse is stupid enough to come back.

When I saw the subjuct of your earlier post I imediately thought of Waffles,
I miss Helen's posts.
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On Oct 26, 1:36 am, Marina wrote:
> Miranda caught a mouse in the enclosure this morning! I don't know how
> it got into the enclosure. Must have been via the manhole or maybe it
> squeezed between the netting and the wall. Must have been one of these
> suicidal mouses we've been talking about. To deliberately squeeze into a
> cat enclosure! I don' think much of mice's sense of smell.
>
> Mir was so excited. Caliban tried to take it off her, but she hissed and
> growled at him. Paws off my prize! She wouldn't come inside even for
> turkey. She's been watching outside for hours, and then she finally
> nabbed it.
>
> --
> Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Barnabus is soo proud. He wants to know if you took a picture of his
Miranda with her mowsie? Are you having the head mounted and hung on
the wall? She is such a wonderful huntress.

Proud of his winkwink,
Barnabus
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GaDragonfly wrote:
>
> Barnabus is soo proud. He wants to know if you took a picture of his
> Miranda with her mowsie? Are you having the head mounted and hung on
> the wall? She is such a wonderful huntress.
>
> Proud of his winkwink,
> Barnabus
>

No picture, it was still dark outside and she was running about with it.
As it turned out, she didn't kill it (or she did and ate it all - which
I don't believe) and it must have gotten away in the end. So nothing to
mount and hang on the wall. :P

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jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt DeleteThis @sonic.net wrote:
> Marina wrote:
>
> > Though I can see why some people think mice are cute, I grew up with
> > indoor/outdoor cats, and learned from a baby to view small rodents as
> > cat food.
>
> LOL, perhaps a mother cat taught you that, the same way she would teach
> her kittens the same thing? :)
>

Very possible. I think I learned to meow before I learned to speak. ;)

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