A Michael Broad Blog
The question implicitly refers to domestic cats. Cat guardians probably know the answer through their experience of seeing their cats bring mice into their home and release them. If alive and able mice sometimes run under furniture such as sideboards. Domestic cats will silently wait and watch an exit to the furniture in the …
My cat just walked in with a damned big mouse or a rat. I don’t know. I can’t tell the difference without doing some research and I haven’t got time right now for that. Here is the video: My cat catches a rat or a damn big mouse. from Michael Broad on Vimeo. SOME …
I think you can break the question down into two separate questions. In my experience, cat owners and people in general are far more concerned about domestic cats preying on birds than they are on mammals such as mice and voles or reptiles and insects. If the question is how can you stop my …
The execution nearly always takes place under my bed in the dead of the night. Until that moment I can hear the screams of a mouse at a distance as he vainly tries to fight off and escape my cat’s attentions. When he brings mice into the house my cat makes a special noise. …
An artificial intelligence (AI) controlled cat door (cat flap) could be manufactured to distinguish between an owner’s cat bringing in a mouse and a cat without a mouse in the mouth. This would be very helpful to a lot of cat owners whose cats are prolific hunters because it is unpleasant for a lot …
The Holy Grail of playing with your cat is to achieve the situation in which your cat growls when she catches the ‘prey’ (a cat tease) telling you that her ‘raw cat’ has been activated. What Jackson Galaxy advocates is to mimic as accurately as possible how prey would react in the presence of …
Why do cats attack sheets when you are making the bed? The answer is that domestic cats are attuned through sight and sound to detect movement and noise indicative of a prey ‘item’ e.g. a mouse. Cats are able to detect prey at a distance and quick movements indicate prey items. It’s one reason …
What do you do when your cat brings in a live mouse? It seems to me that there are several options. And the options depend upon how things pan out and whether you fear or like mice. I like them. My cat will bring a mouse in and he won’t kill it immediately which …
