Is there anyway to make a cat a better mouser?
Doesn't his expression almost say, "Catch the mice yourself."
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This is a ridiculous statement and has been proven to be untrue. Many farm cats are treated as working animals and not fed in order that they control the pest problem on the farm. This leads to malnutrition and many die young.
The truth is that a well fed cat is more active and has the energy to follow its natural hunting instinct, thereby making it a much more effective hunter.
The downside to encouraging a cat to hunt is that is cannot distinguish between what you want it to hunt and what you do not. A bird to a cat is just as game for hunting as a mouse or rat.
Instead keep a cat as a companion and pet, use other forms of pest control, but be sure to place any dangerous substances well away from where your cat may venture, if not you could have a cat tragedy on your hands. I have used humane live mouse traps in the past and successfully rid my abode of the pests, however I had to travel quite a way to release them, as they tend to come back - homing mice if you will!
Good luck with those mice!
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It looks like you just have one of those cats that does not catch mice. From what I've read through the years... some cats have it and some don't.
I think you can trace it back to when they were kittens. It looks like the mother teaches her kittens how to hunt. Kittens are automatically programed to chase, but hunting is a learned skill. This site explains it wonderfully.
http://www.perfectpaws.com/help3.html
I had a friend whose cat would catch mice ever so gently and present them to her master on his chest in the middle of night. I'm sure that cat must have caught hundreds of mice... but she never hurt a hair on their fuzzy little heads.
I'm afraid that if you want those mice gone, you're going to have to do it yourself. I'm sure you're cats won't be too far away, smirking the whole time!
Good luck getting rid of those mice.
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Maybe get another cat to show him how, and maybe start reducing his food so it encourages him to hunt, But don`t starve him ! some cats just were not made to be murders anyway at least everybodys happy ! You don`t have any mouse blood on your carpets, your cats lives luxury and the mouse keeps his life !