How do I make my cat a mouser?

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starwars - 30 Nov 2003 22:49 GMT

How do I make my cat catch mice?

I think it's so used to household food, it is spoiled.
I was told that one way is to stop feeding it "too much"
so I did that and now all it does is hang out on the
porch day and night and begs for food. Still doesn't catch
mice.

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m. L. Briggs - 01 Dec 2003 01:22 GMT

>How do I make my cat catch mice?
>
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>porch day and night and begs for food. Still doesn't catch
>mice.

A starving cat doesn't have the strength to hunt. A well fed cat
makes a better mouser.

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~*Connie*~ - 01 Dec 2003 11:50 GMT

you shouldn't have to do diddly.. cats have the prey instinct. if she has
never been taught how to kill by her mother, all she'll be able to do is
play with the item it has caught.

and you might only see it laying on the porch, but that doesn't mean its not
hunting. Which btw, is NOT a good thing. too much can go wrong when the
cat is hunting, worms being the least of your problems, all the way over to
the other side of it catching a rabid animal, or tangling with something too
big and having it killed. If your cat honestly doesn't hunt - which I
doubt, consider that a good thing

> How do I make my cat catch mice?
>
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> porch day and night and begs for food. Still doesn't catch
> mice.

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