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(12,232 posts)Too cute.
KarenS
(4,073 posts)North Shore Chicago
(3,312 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)AverageOldGuy
(1,523 posts). . . they've been into the catnip -- all laid back and mellow -- make love not war.
AZ8theist
(5,456 posts)Cats are useless.
(it was funny, though, how the mouse schooled that cat....)
Link to tweet
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Hermit in Vermont
@hermit_in_vt
I've seen this before... it is theorized that the mouse is infected with toxoplasmosis, which alters the behavior of its intermediary hosts in order to be consumed by its primary host (cats). Ugh. Smart cat for not taking the diseased bait!
4:24 PM · Jun 3, 2021
Personally, I'd go with "useless."
0rganism
(23,944 posts)Say what you like about the cats but the mouse appears to have gigantic gonads of steel. Unusual.
Texin
(2,594 posts)The cats and the mouse seem to have reached some kind of accommodation.
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)instead of killing a new friend just because it's small
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... to a farmer because she kept escaping outside to kill various animals, then bringing them inside the house as a gift to us. My mother couldn't stand it, so Dad finally found a new home for it. The farmer was thrilled to get a cat with pest-hunting skills.
We had another cat at the time which we kept. It would've definitely behaved more like the cats in that video. Except our cat probably would've been exhausted from that much interaction with the mouse and quickly flopped down to sleep again.
TxGuitar
(4,190 posts)along a river on the ground floor. Every once in a while a little mouse would get in the house; I'd do a catch and release thing. One evening we were watching tv, the room was only lit by the screen, and I saw a mouse walking along the floor close to the wall. One of our cats, a big fella that spent most of his time outside by the river, was laying on the floor. He looked at the mouse, and very pointedly looked at me like "are you gonna get that or what?".
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)She carried it around in her mouth, and slept with it under her.
I tried to get it away from her, but she'd hide under the furniture with it.
Mouse died after a couple of days, and I was able to throw it out.