I feel like depends on the cat. I found mine as a list kitten that we assumed got outside and then was starving and almost dead. He’s always been N indoor cat. Had never seen a mouse in the 8 years he was alive. I go out of town for a day and night and come back to a decapitated mouse in the apt. Fool took care of shit without even knowing. Then years later, we move into a house and a mouse gets in some how. My cat finds the mouse, kills it, walks around with it, then drops it in the hallway for us to clean up. If he had been taught how to catch mice when he was a kitten, I he wouldn’t have been starving to death. But when a mouse showed up, he knew exactly what to do.
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nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 day agoThey rarely need to in the city, also those that weren’t taught by other cats most of the time won’t kill the mouse just torture it or scare.
Mellibird@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Well, whatever my cat did, the mice are gone so… 🤷♂️
I did see a few dead mice around the first 2 months, now no sight of mice.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
You are lucky, in my previous flat there were hoarders-alcoholics that lived on the next floor, one day they brought mice with whatever shit they decided to take. At first they were contained on their floor, but after a while they were everywhere. Cat played with them at first >_< and then got bored. After 10 or so that traps killed (in a month) I moved out.
Zementid@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Your experience made me remember “Tom”, the farmers-cat living in the corn silo on the farm of my great aunt. He hated children but tolerated the adults working there. And he was working there. He killed multiple mice a day (depending on season as it seems), ate only the livers, ad used crippled mice to find the others. Tom was sick man.
qarbone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What the fuck kinda Hannibal Lecter cat…
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mice and some other pests have evolved an instinctual aversion to the smell of cats, it triggers their fear response. Just having the cats around might have been good enough.