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Just waked into my kitchen with the light off and stood on something that squeked and then popped. Paniked and turned the light on, saw my cat looking at me lifted my foot up and I have squished a frog!!!!!!!
My bloody cat she is always bringing in alive creatures. Just nearly been sick cleaning frog guts off my slippers and kitchen floor :(. Sorry totally non horsey x.
 
Poor frog!! I have just spent the last hour trying to catch a baby bunny running around the house. My cat brings things in but then drops them alive by your feet!!

I do love my cat but after this one I think I'm going to stick to dogs as I am fed up with trying to catch live animals every night! And now he is having a strop as I have locked him in the living room to try to give the bunny a head start!

Last night he brought in a mouse and dropped it then went to sleep! Tried to catch the mouse with my mouse catching device (dustpan and brush) with the mouse running away into the paws of my cat!

Was actually sick once when cat brought in a dead rabbit and put it in the toilet room, threw it outside in a tesco bag to deal with in the morning, went to pub, drank a lot, felt sick, came back to cat bringing the bag back in, and eating it's head, was sick!
 
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Oh poor you! Finding various creatures or more so parts of creatures at the bottom of the stairs before I've put my contact lenses in is the only thing I don't miss about having a cat!
 
As the owner of a very annoying (yet incredibly cute and lovable) cat who loved bringing in mice and then promptly losing interest, can I suggest the following:

1) lock cat out of the way
2) corner mouse in an accessable corner (which is the hard bit)
3) throw towel over mouse, bundle up being careful not to squash it, run outside and unfurl towel, setting mouse free.

I really really hate the way they jump - towel method was the only thing i could come up with that stopped them doing that.


...We once had myself, my mother and my sister all in one bedroom with the bed on it's side trying to catch a mouse - every time it came near any one of us we screamed and ran. Took about 45 minutes to capture the bloody thing. :D :D :D Annoying Cat got run over last year. I do miss her. I do not miss the mice.
 
Ha yes I am trying the towel method now but they are so bloody quick! Also once had a mouse in my room that I did not know about until it had died and I had a bit of a funky smell coming from my chest of draws...that was unpleasant. Cat is NOT allowed in my room anymore.
 
I have had no mice yet but frogs, birds, stag beatles and feathers are her usual choice of presents. Birds are still alive when she brings them in but soon die of the shock :(.
 
My brothers tiny epileptic cat once brought in a MASSIVE bloody hare and left it on my pillow for me when I woke up in the morning...it was a bit like the Godfather....oh the joys of cats :)

It's a good thing I'm not squeamish!
 
I can beat the frog story. There'd been a dodgy smell in the house for a couple of weeks and I was pretty certain there was a decomposing mouse somewhere. Weeks went by. Then I was going somewhere nice so dug posh shoes out and put left shoe on. Went to put right shoe on and felt some resistance. Thought just crumpled shoe so pushed harder. There was a disgusting wet pop and my toes suddenly felt cold. Pulled foot out and all my toes and the end of my foot and the inside of my good shoes were covered in burst, rotting mouse. Pukesville. Here's how to catch a mouse. They will always run into a dark place so I keep an Emergency Mouse Box which is an old shoe box with some straw in it and some air holes punched in the lid. Hold the dark-inside of the Emergency Mouse Box close by the mouse and it should hurtle into the box with a sigh of relief. Put the lid on, put some wellies on, pad out into the night and release mouse into a suitable safe place. This method has a 90% success rate but the other 10% may alarm some people, ie if you're wearing a skirt, the mouse may spot an alternative dark place to run to and next thing he's up your skirt and you have to do a very undignified shuffle to the release point, praying neighbours don't think you've either peed yourself or are about to give birth under a bush.
 
OMG- you just made my insides shiver!!!! lol

It could have been worse, at least you had slippers on ;-O
 
oh that really made me chuckle!!!!!!!! Good job you had your slippers on otherwise that would of felt disgusting!! Think maybe a new pair of slippers are in order tho otherwise everytime you put them on again you will think of the mangled frog!! x
 
Oh yuck!
My cat is normally very good in that he kills quickly AND eats them -no messing about. If it gets cold due to him being destracted, it's no longer fresh cuisine.

I did have an incident at the weekend where I was ironing fabric and something crashed into my foot and found a poor vole with awful wounds. No skin around the neck and a hole in the abdomen right through the peritoneum. I had to break the poor thing's neck - he looked feverish and I'm pretty sure he'd have died, but the wounds weren't fresh, so who knows how long he'd been in pain. I gave both cats a right telling off, finger waggling and all. I just got that 'shut up, servant' look. Humph!
 
My OH stepped on a dead mouse at the end of the bed a couple of months ago. He nearly threw up on the spot (Victor Meldrew and the hedgehog came to mind :D). I now keep a fishing net in the bedroom for those night time presents that get brought in. My cats seem to think it is fun if we all run round the bedroom together chasing a mouse. Ah well, it's better than finding the blue squiggly bits which they leave after eating mice/birds/whatever
 
ok i can beat frogs and mice, i had a cat that use to bring home full grown pheasants, some even alive. plus rabbits etc

the farmer wasn't to please about his pheasants
 
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I , ie if you're wearing a skirt, the mouse may spot an alternative dark place to run to and next thing he's up your skirt and you have to do a very undignified shuffle to the release point, praying neighbours don't think you've either peed yourself or are about to give birth under a bush.
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ROFLMAO yet another good reason to never wear skirts!:D
 
What is it with cats and putting mice into shoes. Ours put one in my trainer once and I walked all the way to the shop with it in there without realising until I got home. The trainers were a bit big so the mouse was squished at the end. Poor little thing.

I've also had the misfortune of skidding in cat poo with only socks on. We used to have a galley kitchen and the light switch was at the end. I ran down to turn it on and went flying because Mitzi had left us a smell present in the middle of the carpet. Eeeewww.

Treading on a frog must have been so horrible - poor you. It's bad enough treading on a snail by accident.
 
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I can beat the frog story. There'd been a dodgy smell in the house for a couple of weeks and I was pretty certain there was a decomposing mouse somewhere. Weeks went by. Then I was going somewhere nice so dug posh shoes out and put left shoe on. Went to put right shoe on and felt some resistance. Thought just crumpled shoe so pushed harder. There was a disgusting wet pop and my toes suddenly felt cold. Pulled foot out and all my toes and the end of my foot and the inside of my good shoes were covered in burst, rotting mouse. Pukesville.
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yuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!! urgh, thats really put me off my rice crispys!!! :( My cat used to always catch mice and sit on my chest at night and crunch the mouse WHOLE right in front of my face! Not nice to wale up to! She also left one in my bed and i woke up with something furry and wet by my legs.................:( ;) :p
 
berry said:
Just waked into my kitchen with the light off and stood on something that squeked and then popped. Paniked and turned the light on, saw my cat looking at me lifted my foot up and I have squished a frog!!!!!!!
My bloody cat she is always bringing in alive creatures. Just nearly been sick cleaning frog guts off my slippers and kitchen floor :(. Sorry totally non horsey x.
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sorry, had to laugh!!
 
Glad to know its not only my cat that brings in weird animals.
Just got back from the yard and the two cats up there are playing with a dead magpie!!!
 
Oh seriously that is yuck! Squished frog

One morning I sat up in bed and swung my legs over the edge. Just sitting there trying to get the brain to function. Shoved my foot in my slippers and a mouse ran up my leg :eek: :eek: . Talk about finding a way to wake up FAST. Bloody cat
 
How funny! My cat lives outside and she likes to bring whole large rabbits in to her kittens - she drags them up the field, they're as big as her, then jumps into the kittens pen and says "Here you are, this is what kittens eat" and gives them the whole thing, if you try to take it away she hisses at us!
 
Not cats but dogs. Kitchen light switch in middle of kitchen, 3 dogs, one runny poo, bare feet, trying to get to the light switch on a dark morning. I wouldnt of minded but it wasn't even warm as it squished between my toes ! Another yuck - raven down the bedroom chimney, cream duvet and two jr's - not a good combination. Rest in peices little birdy. And one final one, Farriers dog does a vanishing trick, eventually comes back. The unforgettable sound of 'hup hup hup bleugh' and out comes a whole rabbit but looked like it had been turned inside out. he then looked at it as if to say best have another taste.
 
This thread has made me feel a bit better. thought it was just me being singled out for special presents. My ESS pup and 2 cats like to work together, they are a formidable killing team. Couple of months ago, cat 1 jumps in through bedroom window at silly oclock with half dead baby blackbird, lets it go under the bed and scarpers. Pup and cat 2 try to catch it, I am now awake and trying to catch it before they do, OH is asleep!! Pup catches bird, I chase her downstairs and outside to try to persuade her to let go! Cats 1 & 2 are busy emptying nest of remaining babies, I am trying to part Pup and 1st baby bird whilst also trying to stop cats from jumping back in through bedroom window with remaining presents. OH is still asleep. Half an hour later I have retrieved 3 dead baby birds from the lawn, managed to close all open windows and stop pup eating remains of 4th baby bird which she found in the borders. It is now getting light, I am wide awake and, you guessed it, OH (and now the pup) are asleep! Fortunately I do sleep in a TShirt and keep flip flops by the bed in case of animal related emergencies.
 
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