There's a mouse in the house

Harmony sounds a lot like my Murphy. She would go out on the patio and catch baby lizards and bring them in the house. It wouldn't be so bad except she would let them go. I would find them a few months later and they were about 10 times the size they were when she first caught them! I'm not afraid of lizards but it is quite a shock to come across one of her "catches" and it has grown so big. I would catch the lizard and take it back outside and put it in my woodpile. Khuay (the cat in my avatar) loves to catch mice, except that he is another one who lets them go! He will catch them and bring them into my bedroom and jump up on the bed and, yep you guessed it, let them go! I never have ever gotten out of bed so darned fast! The mouse jumped off the other side of the bed and disappeared. Khuay of course lost interest as soon as I jumped out of bed-he was expecting treats for catching the mouse. Hopefully your mouse is finding a way out of the house. With mice if they can get their head through the hole they can get the rest of their body through too. Just hope that the one she caught wasn't pregnant! I don't think you're quite ready to be a grandmother to a litter of little mice!!

Ok I live on a Farm, where we sometimes have as many as 20 cats around the barns, and no mice. The cats are fed once a day, (whether they are hungry or not) and they get only as much feed as they will clean up immediately. (this is why there are no rodents in the barns) The secret is in not over feeding the cats. They are just hungry enough to catch the mice, and EAT them.Our cats are sleek, well groomed, and healthy!

Oh no Bar I hope you have caught in the meantime or at least found it lol

She loves meeses but not to pieces?

Oh...You don’t know where it is? That would make me feel a little uneasy...My two cats are indoor babies so if they come up with any mice I’ll be really worried because that would mean that they would have caught them inside the house and that would not be good! It is so cute how Harmony doesn’t kill the mouse but wants to ‘cuddle’ it; she sounds a lovely peace loving soul...

i had this problem once. i have 2 cats and a small mouse got in and god knows why with 2 cats...he must have taken a wrong turn at albuquerque...my fat cat caught him and took him into my room, and he escaped.. im still thinking he did it on purpose so the mouse could escape...he hasnt been back so i guess he smartened up

what a nice trophy she has! fortunately, we dont let our cat out much so we have not had that happeh. once, however, we did have a mouse in the house which my cat promptly ended up playing with enough that it seemed pretty dazed and confused and much slower so my daughter was able to catch it and put it outside.

I think u are overdue having the facts of life talk w/harmony. lol.

Hey Barbara! Maybe she's trying to tell you something? Maybe she would like a mouse for a pet? I think I would die if my cat's were that smart! The were hearing some noises from in the basement for months because there were some squirrel family who decided to take up residence and all they would do would be to sit wherever they heard the noises and sniff! I don't think that my cats would know what to do with a mouse if they ever saw one! They for one thing are housecats, and when they even see bugs they want "Mommy" to get them for them to play with! My last two cats were the same way! I always had to kill my own bugs for them too!

You need not worry. As long as there is a cat around, the mouse will look to escape rather than hang around. If it does hang around, Harmony will catch it. Usually a cat will catch its prey then bring it to its caregiver as a gift. Our cat Liberty caught a shrew one day and brought home and dropped it at my feet. Fortunately I was outside. I thanked her and told her next time don't kill it. She ran offf and a short time later, returned with a live one. I told her to get another one, and she did a total of 5 times. Each one was alive and unharmed. Its a true story. She hasn't done anything like that since.

Hi BarBaraPrz, Today cats, which living in the house with all their foods are human made, did not hunt for kill (foods) anymore. The only cats which hunt for foods is the stray cat. House cats usually hunt for play only. It would not kill their victim but play with it. This cats do not eat any uncooked foods. The human made the cats lazy and lost all their instinct to hunt for its own foods.

My cat will also play with the mice for awhile before she finally kills them. She is a good little mouser. She get at least one a week. We live on a big piece of land and we get field mice in here all the time. But don't be didmayed they all pay with the mice first. It's a game for them. She will get it when it finally comes back out.

If you won't smell anything rotting within the next few days then the mouse is safe. But if you would, then your guess is as good as mine.

Oops. I guess you will be a little more careful to turn that light on and make sure she isn't bringing in any more friends to play with. LOL Hopefully the mouse will decide that it is not safe to live in your house and will find it's way back outside.

Looks quite funny catching those mouses for rearing.

Then the mouse hides good if it can't be killed by your cat.

I had the same thing happen to me but my cat took care of business. On Friday night while I was watching my TV shows I heard a lot of noise. Later on that night I went downstairs to the basement and my cat had a mouse cornered under the bookcase. He stayed on that mouse all night and when I went downstairs the next day there was the body and the cat standing over top the mouse.