Cat & Mouse

gerhard1 · May 23, 2021

While visiting my wife yesterday in Stillwater, I watched as my stepdaughter's three-month-old kitten played with a mouse. It caught and killed the creature, and I believe that it was all a game as far as the cat was concerned.

I haven't been around cats that much and it was the first time that I had seen that happen. Interesting.

Wish I'd taken a video of it.

chuter · May 23, 2021

One of our dogs does that, our cat not so much.

Hodrod · May 23, 2021

Cats love to play....there is a new cat toy out...it's a fish that flops when touched...cats can spend hours with one

gerhard1 · May 23, 2021

Hodrod said:
Cats love to play....there is a new cat toy out...it's a fish that flops when touched...cats can spend hours with one

Penelope (the cat) would love something like that. Next time I'm in Enid, I'll stop at the pet store.

Aries · May 23, 2021

"Your honor, I plead not guilty. I never touched his face. I simply pointed the laser at it, and the cats did the rest all on their own."

Timmy59 · May 23, 2021

Our almost year old pup plays with the flooded out gophers she digs out.. If I see it in action I go and step on the gopher and she looks at me like I just spoiled her fun.. The most enjoyable cat and mouse game for me is a cutting horse that cut a calf from the herd..

ConstitutionCowboy · May 23, 2021

When I was kid, our outdoor cat "Fatso" often brought us mice, baby rabbits, and birds he had killed and left them on the back steps for us to share in his kills. He was a good provider.

He was quite the cat. We moved 35 miles and of course we brought Fatso with us. We kept him in the house for about a week before we let him out on his own recognizance. He disappeared. Six days later, the people we sold the house to called and said our cat was camped out on the (their) back steps. My Dad retrieved him the next day, we kept him in the house for another week, and he never left us after that. Evidently, he found the hunting good in his adopted new neighborhood because the goodies kept showing up on the back steps.

davek · May 23, 2021

The mouse is good, but the turboscratcher never seems to get old.

bigchuck83 · May 23, 2021

Hodrod said:
Cats love to play....there is a new cat toy out...it's a fish that flops when touched...cats can spend hours with one

The cat my girlfriend has does not like the flipping fish toy at all. The little fish on a cheap “fishing pole” toy however greatly amuses the cat. It gets boring casting out and moving the fish for her to chase and play with after a while.

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MacFromOK · May 23, 2021

bigchuck83 said:
The cat my girlfriend has does not like the flipping fish toy at all. The little fish on a cheap “fishing pole” toy however greatly amuses the cat. It gets boring casting out and moving the fish for her to chase and play with after a while.

Years ago, I rigged a cat toy on our back patio. There was a T-post at the corner with a rain gauge on it, so I attached a straightened coat-hanger and left it sticking out 18-20" with a loop in the end, approx 3' high. I then put a ping-pong ball on a string, and tied it to the loop so the ball was about 3" off the patio floor.

The yard cats loved it, and would often entertain us at meal times (the dining table is right by the patio doors). Sometimes one would just lay on its back and bat it around, other times they'd jump around and pounce at it while it was swinging. And the kids were still small enough to think it was cool.

Good times.

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