This looks like a job for... KITTIES!

[XCashier]

On the one hand, I love animals, and I hate hurting them. On the other hand, there's a difference between a tame mouse and a wild one.

And even if you do love the critters, you don't want to wake up with one on your face.

[MsCrankypants]

And even if you do love the critters, you don't want to wake up with one on your face.

Very true - I've woken up with a (pet) cat on my face more than once. Don't get me wrong, I love every cat I've ever owned, but it's not really all that comfortable to wake up out of a sound sleep, unable to breathe, only to find out there are 5-10 lbs of claws and fur on your face. Ya know?

[XCashier]

That's one of the reasons we don't let the cats sleep in our bedroom. They either try to sleep on your face, stretch sideways and try to nudge you off the bed, or the moment you move under the blankets, they POUNCE!!! with claws fully extended!

[taurinejunkie]

I'm probably getting a snake when I move out of my parents' place; at that point, if I ever find a mouse, I'll put it in the freezer and save myself a trip to the petshop for that week.

[fireheart]

That's one of the reasons we don't let the cats sleep in our bedroom. They either try to sleep on your face, stretch sideways and try to nudge you off the bed, or the moment you move under the blankets, they POUNCE!!! with claws fully extended!

Or if you're like our two, they'll only sleep on one side of the bed and ignore the man of the house.

[protege]

That's one of the reasons we don't let the cats sleep in our bedroom. They either try to sleep on your face, stretch sideways and try to nudge you off the bed, or the moment you move under the blankets, they POUNCE!!! with claws fully extended!

I pretty much have to let the kitties in the bedroom. If I don't, they'll scratch the hell out of the door, or spend hours meowing and crying. They'll come in, insist they cuddle with me, then spend an hour walking around the bed before they go to sleep.

Then there's Baxter. He's pounced on me more than once when I'm trying to sleep. One night, I heard him come into the room, jump onto the dresser, and attempt to mess with the fan. Then he thought he'd get into bed...just as I'm drifting off to sleep. He jumps off the dresser, meowing loudly...and all I see is two green eyeballs coming at me Needless to say, he got chased out. However, I found him curled up next to me the next morning.

Sally isn't so bad. Sure, she'll jump into bed, but that's it. At least she doesn't start sniffing my ears, and then chomping on them

[Der Cute]

I think I'd rather have a kitty snuggle with me or pounce on my slightly moving feet in the bed..instead of having a Fuzzy baby bring home a live mouse.

Yes.

She's done it twice so far. First mouse she brought home right through the window. It was pretty big for a field mouse...and she caught it again after she dropped it in the kitchen. She caught it, picked it right up and I told her "That needs to be outside." So she trotted right out the door with her tail stick-straight up and ran around chasing Mr. Mouse outside.

But she brought the same mouse in again 20 minutes later. I had to remind her to take mices outside, they are not house toys.....so she did. We found Mr. Deadmouse later the next day. Poor guy looked...frightened to death.

She did it again a few days later...she brought in Mouse #2. And it escaped! I think she caught it a day after that, because I can't hear the mouse scritches around here anymore.

I hope she learns the Mouse = Outside lesson.

Cutenoob

[AccountingDrone]

My last cat Banzai was trained to take his live crunchy snacks into the bath tub to eat. I got tired of waking up nose to nose with a 'gift' or swinging my legs off the bed, stepping down and feeling that cold wet crunch between my toes...

I managed it by picking him up while praising him profusely and popping him into the bath tub where he would sit there and eat mr squeeky ... after a few times, maybe 5 or 6 he started coming to the bedroom door, making that full mouth meow and then trotting to the bathroom and jumping into the tub.

Fun thing was he trained our next cat to take her mice into the tub =) win win situation!