Tendo City

Not when my cat is around, at least! After spending the winter inside, she's going out again, and caught her first mouse of the year today.

Unfortunately, she brought it back in... alive. Yeah. That is NOT fun. I managed to trap it and bring it out, where she promptly picked up torturing the thing. But mice aren't exactly wanted here, not in town... I wouldn't want to just let it go. At least she was outside at that point, though I did have to close the door to keep her from bringing it back in. :p

So yeah, my cat may be over 16 years old now, but she's still a capable hunter! Three mice last year, several each year the few years before that, now one this year... they aren't in this house, but she manages to find them somewhere, obviously.

Nothing you can do about it, though, and mice aren't good to have around anyway. And she's such a cute blob of purring cuteness... :) (Silly thing eats every speck in sight as soon as she sees it, she's only not badly overweight (and alive) because we've always had to carefully measure out her food, every meal. The constant begging for meals does get old, but hey, at least she's good at reminding me that she's around. :p

You're just letting them attack songbirds ya know. What will I listen to when I'm singing and drying laundry outside?

She has caught birds before, but fortunately it's been a while. Well, she did catch one bird last year, but she brought it in alive, so I got it away from her and brought it outside (and not where she could get it)... but yeah, small rodents isn't too bad, but birds? I can kind of understand why my mom made her current cat indoor-only; a lot of it was because of that.