AndriaD
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We ended up with a cat her sister had that had survived distemper, but was a sandwich short of a picnic because of it. The cat's name was Ditzy. The odor of a cat is enough to keep most rats and mice at bay apparently, because that cat wouldn't have known what to do with one if it caught it.
One of our current felines, a DSH, is a hunter. He's left a few "presents" at the doorstep. One of the previous cats would bring them in the house, still alive sometimes, so he could keep playing with them. We had a dead mouse under the chaise portion of the sofa for a few days before we noticed the odor..
Heh... the way that Tuxie lets me know she wants in, is either to come to the sliding glass door in the back, where she sometimes will bring still-living prey, but I wont open the door till she drops it -- and then it usually runs away, sometimes she goes after it again, but she's starting to learn that with living prey in her mouth, mommy won't open the door. Or, she hops on the table out in the garage which puts her up high enough to wiggle the doorknob so I can hear her, and again, with any prey in her mouth, I just won't open it. But sometimes she brings dismembered parts to the door, or dead mice. I was once dismayed to open that door to the garage and find the entire floor covered in red feathers, from her kill of a cardinal -- my favorite birds! Apparently hers, too.
Nowadays I won't let her out in the morning till at least 10am, to let the birds have a chance to finish their morning ablutions or feeding or whatever birds do early in the morning, so they can go hide before she gets out there. Andria
