09-06-2018, 05:06 PM
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Old Far...er...Rocketeer
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Plano, TX resident since 1998.
Posts: 3,965
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Originally Posted by tbzep
Well fed indoor cats are terrible mousers. Even if they catch them, often times they play with them a minute or two and let them get away.
Hungry outdoor cats are decent mousers at best.
Hungry snakes are AWESOME mousers. We always caught every snake we saw(non-poisonous) and put them in our corn crib because the cats just didn't work hard enough.
BTW, I feel your pain. I've had the exact same thing happen to some of my old keepsakes. Seems what they don't chew on, they pee and poop on.
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We managed to move our cats outdoors. Basically, they now live on the back porch. And they spend lots of time in the shrubs and other foliage around the house. But they haven't adapted much ferocity.
I heard a noise in my window one night recently and, when I opened the blinds, found a mouse in the window sill, and he wasn't showing any fear of me. Nor was there any sign of either cat.
FWIW, we do occasionally find the remains of dead rodents around the yard, but that mouse makes me think my cats are still spoiled 
Doug
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