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Two useless cats For Sale. Will take any offer (Original Post) Budi Jun 2021 OP
LOL!. . . Lovie777 Jun 2021 #1
Lol SheltieLover Jun 2021 #2
Pampered well-fed kitties do not need to eat mice. n/t KarenS Jun 2021 #3
Hah! North Shore Chicago Jun 2021 #4
Brave little mouse. sinkingfeeling Jun 2021 #5
The cats look as though . . . AverageOldGuy Jun 2021 #6
I'm a dog person. AZ8theist Jun 2021 #7
One theory: Ilsa Jun 2021 #8
I'm more interested in the ass-kicking mouse 0rganism Jun 2021 #9
I'm thinking the mouse is the homeowner's pet. Texin Jun 2021 #10
My thoughts also. patricia92243 Jun 2021 #15
Maybe these cats want peace and love and coexistence IronLionZion Jun 2021 #11
My favorite cat during childhood was given away... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #12
We lived in the UK in an apt TxGuitar Jun 2021 #13
I had a cat "adopt" a baby mouse. Midnight Writer Jun 2021 #14

AverageOldGuy

(1,523 posts)
6. The cats look as though . . .
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 09:01 AM
Jun 2021

. . . they've been into the catnip -- all laid back and mellow -- make love not war.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
8. One theory:
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 09:33 AM
Jun 2021

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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)
9. I'm more interested in the ass-kicking mouse
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 09:50 AM
Jun 2021

Say what you like about the cats but the mouse appears to have gigantic gonads of steel. Unusual.

Texin

(2,594 posts)
10. I'm thinking the mouse is the homeowner's pet.
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 10:04 AM
Jun 2021

The cats and the mouse seem to have reached some kind of accommodation.

IronLionZion

(45,427 posts)
11. Maybe these cats want peace and love and coexistence
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 10:27 AM
Jun 2021

instead of killing a new friend just because it's small

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
12. My favorite cat during childhood was given away...
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 10:45 AM
Jun 2021

... 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)
13. We lived in the UK in an apt
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 12:18 PM
Jun 2021

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)
14. I had a cat "adopt" a baby mouse.
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 02:32 PM
Jun 2021

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.

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