Agh, hit 'enter'... the OFF CHANCE she might want to wander in there at night and I CAN'T SLEEP WITH THE CLOSET OPEN since it's the last line of defense against...I don't know, some kind of horrible monster that lives only in closets and under the bed.

We discovered we had mice because I woke up in the middle of the night to the cats making a whole lot of noise outside of a laundry basket. They had gotten the mouse into the basket (no idea how) and were on either side of the basket playing ping pong, as far as I could tell, with the mouse. I had to wake up my husband so he could tell them they were wonderful kitties because I was almost sick. I almost wish our cats didn't like playing with mice so much!

We have two cats. One of them, James, poops on the floor. But one could say he makes up for it because when the other one, Lilly, pukes he eats it.

OMG. That made me laugh SO hard. My cat chases spiders and talks to the birds, I don't know what she'd do with a mouse in the house, though.

LMAO! My mom has had this conversation with her cats several times. I think they think after age 8, they're senior citizens who demand dinner at 4 and are constantly telling the dogs to get off their lawn!

I believe I saw this once on Tom & Jerry. Your cat better watch out... those mice can be crafty little buggers!

Seriously, good luck on your attempts to de-mouse your house :-)

Hilarious! I hope she's learned her lesson.

Max! I love you, Max!

*ahem*

The only time (our sealpoint Siamese) Tarot has ever apparently killed a mouse was when we were away for our honeymoon for two weeks. The cat sitter said he appeared to have not even touched it, but that the thing had died of a heart attack, or possibly in its sleep. In the kitchen. It was so unblemished that it might have been sleeping. When the sitter arrived, Tarot was supposedly staring at it all, "Why won't my new best friend wake up? We were playing all nice-like."

I can always send my terrier, Penny, over to help. I have a feeling she'd get the mouse like THAT.

Sorry the cat is not adhering to its biological imperative. Perhaps after seeing Ratatouille it decided to go all pacifist...?

Aw, c'mon. The poor cat is something like 61 in people years. Max is clearly going for early retirement.

I have a 21-lb. 3-year-old cat if you'd like to borrow her to see how she does with your little unwelcome guest. She's hefty, but she's definitely the huntress in our household. Just watch her to make sure she doesn't accidentally swallow Ceiba.

I kept waiting for you to tell that story. And then all the snow hit.

But leave my g-d cat alone. I feel I've the right to call him that. I did save his life. Kind of.

We have three cats. Two are indoor and the oldest cat goes outside and inside. He would bring mice in and loose them in the house. Or drop them live on the bed at 11pm at night. I don't know what is worse a dead mouse behind our waterbed or knowing what a dead mouse smells like! Since we got the indoor cats (we have coyotes) our oldest cat doesn't have a cat door anymore that he can come and go as he wishes. Occasionally he still manages to bring one in and loose it. Like last week when one of the younger cats was scratching in the closet of my sewing room.I made my husband look in the closet. He saw it but then it ran behind all the sewing stuff in the closet. Haven't found the remnents yet.

Too funny! Especially the caption on the photo. We got mice under the stove when I was 8 mos.pregnant and my stupid cats just stared at them (at least I knew where to put the sticky traps). No catch and release here though. I put the caught mouse in a paper bag, took it outside and smashed the bag flat with a shovel. What? I was pregnant, ain't no mouse gettin' in my baby's stuff.

I wish I lived closer, I'd let you borrow our cat for a night. Mouse problem solved, he actually has moved on to bigger and better things. Brought a cardinal to the door the other day, in his mouth, still alive - yikes. He also assisted our dog in a rabbit put down the other day in the yard as well from what the neighbor tells me.

uhh.. hheheee hee hahhaaaa snort (in a feminine way, of course). muahahaa!!
Oh, how I heart Max. He's too funny.
Sorry about the mouse sitch. Ew.

The last part of this post made me SCREAM with laughter.

You are a genius, my dear.

I bow to the master. (Mistress?)

Maybe the cat's a vegetarian?

Domestic cats are useless, it seems, because we've had mice before and my cat just sleeps through their little mice parties, like he's too good to even care anymore. Oh sometimes he'll sit and stare for awhile, but he always goes back to sleeping.

Bwahahahahahahaha...you should submit that picture to LOLCats.

I could lend you our small black hellcat who happens to be a great mouser.

Um, well you LIVE with a large cinnamon colored rodent. Don't you expect that to cause some confusion to your cat???? Also, if they cat isn't taught by his mother how to kill a mouse when they are a kitten, they won't know. Your cat looks like a purebreed, so it probably came from a nice indoor home??? (Like mine, feline couch potatoes) So all it would do is play with it, maybe injure it, maybe not. Not the kitty's fault!

Amy, I never post links in comments, but I had to do this here b/c--hello--we have the same cat. Only mine is deaf and I think the mice have a party next to her head while she sleeps. It's pathetic how close she sleeps to her food bowl, and the mice just take the food right from her.

http://fairlyoddmother.blogspot.com/2010/02/sleeping-on-job.html

Totally unrelated, but you know that siamese live an incredibly long time, right? Like parrots? Seriously, mine was 21 when she died. I got her when I was 16 and she died last year, when I was 37. Spry is an understatement.

I actually WATCHED my cat watch a mouse as it helplessly ran around my bathtub. Talk about useless.

Bwaaa ha ha - I love Max.

Dawn - I soooo feel you on having to sleep with the closet closed. Because things could totally come out of there while you're asleep. Long-forgotten sweaters with a grudge. Because you KNOW you will wake up, see a sleeve in the semi-dark and FREAK THE HELL OUT about Freddy Kreuger and... yes. I am with you. :os

Amalah, I feel you on the mousing. I have mice. MICE. For the first time ever. They are living under my bathtub, it would seem. And go foraging in the kitchen. IN MY PANTRY. And then scuttle under the washing machine to eat their misbegotten booty. And then SCURRY OUT AT ME when I unwittingly head over to the laundry, all clothes in my arms and whatnot, and suddenly MICE ARE RUNNING OVER MY BARE FEET, HELP ME GAWD. I can't even drop what I'm holding and run away because:
A - they will get *in my clothes*, OMFG and
B - I HAVE BARE FEET AND I WILL STAND ON ONE AND SICKENING CRUNCH NOISE AND

Did I mention they seem to like eating the poision bait? That they licked the peanut butter off the brutal snappy trap things without triggering them? So, all you people who have mentioned them... sticky traps? Please elaborate because I really need to do some washing and stop ordering take-out because I am scared to go into my kitchen. Soon I will be nekkid and so fat I'll have to wash myself with a rag on a stick. I need help, people!

this post made me laugh so hard. my apt. was infested with mice (plural mouse!!) and the cat would just look at me like "do something woman".

Thanks for a hilarious post! Skypeing the cat? Too funny (but totally adorable).

Feral cats are much better at killing rodents than domesticated cats that were born and raised indoors. If you know someone with a barn cat, or a well adjusted rescue cat you can borrow for a couple days you'll get better results.

I know your husband was trying to be nice to the mouse that you released, but house mice don't generally fare well in the wild - they're used to being around people and the crumbs and garbarge they produce for food, they don't know how to forage and will most often die (slowly) in the wild. The only time you should catch them alive is if you plan to keep them as pets, give them to someone who wants to keep them, or release them in an enemy's home. (I keep pet mice, so, yanno, I'm a softie. We also have 5, spoiled rotten, rescue cats.)

I think the whole "cats catch mice" thing is a farce. I grew up with 2 cats. One was too fat/adorably stupid to catch anything (when chasing the other cat, he Always slammed into the door at the end of the hall b/c he was too fat to make the turn. Always. EVERY SINGLE TIME.) The other? Waay too much of a princess to deign to catch a mouse. Didn't help that my mother hand named her "Precious."

But they were awfully adorable. Fortunately, much more so than the mice they refused to chase.

Well, for the low, low price of housing our two cats for six weeks this summer you can have our mouser (he and the other cat work as a team). He would kill the shit out of the mouse in one day and then start fanning out around the neighborhood to take care of additional rodents. We wanted to put a dead mouse stencil on the side of the house, you know, like what the pilots did in WWII? Right now, there's a big old (dead) rat on our porch.

To top it off, this cat has NO CLAWS. Perhaps you can tell your cat his story and inspire his lazy ass.

Perhaps you should rename the cat? Ours is called 'Atilla' and boy does he live up to his name! The only downside is that he insists on bringing home his prey and eat them right in front of the window.

Ugh, cats! This morning, my 11 year old herpes-hepatitis-allergies-cancer-diabietic cat decided it had had ENOUGH of all this baby CRAP and decided to enact sweet revenge... by sitting in the babies highchair and peeing. Can't prove it was him, but I certainly didn't pee in it! Sigh... I'd rather have a mouse.

this is mayhaps one of the funniest things i've ever read on here (and that's a huge feat).
it's definitely the funniest thing i've read all month. anywhere!

good luck.

OK, forgive me if someone already mentioned this but I didn't have time to read all the other comments.

Cats have an instinct to chase mice, bugs, birds, etc but will only kill them (playing with them until they die of heart attacks being the exception) if they are hungry. Their hunger is what drives them to kill. So if you want your cat to kill any mice, limit her food availability. If he is well-fed, he may not even give a crap about the mice-ies.