My two indoor kitties have had the night of their lives after finding a mouse in our house sometime late last night. They have torn through the whole house, knocking things overs and howling. Both of my kids have mid-term finals today, then have to go to their ski races after that. I have tried desperately to keep a lid on the whole thing so that they could get some sleep. Locked them in the cellar (cats not kids) but they throw themselves against the door and scratch and howl. Can't put them in the garage as there are dangerous things they could get into. I tried to catch the #$% thing myself with a box, but it is an Olympian of the mouse world, and eludes us all. It seems pretty much unscathed by the night's activities. Of course, I am taking into consideration the likelihood there is more than one mouse, and that didn't help me catch any sleep either. I am also worried that if the cats do catch it, it will hurt one of them. Anyone ever had their cat injured by a mouse?

It sounds very funny,although I m sure it is not. I am sorry you are not getting any sleep. I have never heard of a mouse hurting a cat. I don't know what type of diseases they carry. I just would not want my cat to eat one. I hope you were able to get some rest! Hope you catch the mouse soon!

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In our first home, we had a bit of a mice invasion (although I never really saw one~~they were very sneaky that way. But we would find droppings). We used the regular mouse trap with peanut butter and that did the trick. Personally, I think those sticky traps are unusually cruel and would never use one of those.

Would your cats leave the traps alone or possibly get hurt by one?

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Sorry about the mouse. I guess a cat could get scratched or bitten but I doubt a mouse would let them get that close w/o being caught.

Good luck!

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I hope you get the mice there's not too much worse than knowing there's a rodent (which usually means there's more) running around the house. I remember once when we lived somewhere else my husband was at work all night and I lay in bed scared and grossed out because I could hear them pitter pattering around.
I hope your kids do well on their finals and ski races!

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Sorry about the mouse but love the way you write about it.
Well fed house cats don't usually eat the mice they catch. They use them for sport. Ours will just terrorize them until the mouse's heart gives out.
Keep us updated on your progress.

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Get some regular traps and bait them with peanut butter. Just smear the peanut butter on, don't put on a huge glob because mice have been known to take bait off traps without setting it off if the bait is a huge glob. I have seen traps that are a regular snap trap but it's enclosed in a little cardboard box with a window on top so you can see the mouse got caught but it's easier and neater to deal with the corpse.
Stick the traps where the cats can't easily get yet mice would like to be. If you have a space between the fridge and the wall/stove, that is a great place to put one.

I've never heard/seen a cat get injured by a mouse. I've also never seen a well fed housecat eat a mouse, just maul it around until it dies from fright or they play too rough with it and kill it on accident.

Hope your cat doesn't catch one and present it to you as a gift. My once cat did that one time-killed a mouse and left it outside the bedroom door so when I got up in the morning I STEPPED ON IT!. Gross!!!! And there sat the cat, looking quite proud of himself and not quite understanding why I was throwing his lovely present away.

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Mice have been eaten by dogs/cats for many years. Used to have barn cats we adopted from shelters that was fixed and used to keep mice out of the barn away from the grain and stuff.

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Many years ago there was a mouse in my kitchen boldly walking around during the day, the nerve! My cat was playing with it, not killing it. So I thought I would be brave and beat it to death with the broom. I ran past the mouse and the cat and grabbed the broom. I held the broom over my head and said.. "Say your prayers mouse!" and was about to swing when the mouse charged me! I dropped the broom and ran like a bat out of hell. I ran through the kitchen, den and living room and right out the front door screaming all the way AHHHHHHH!!!! I left the house, mouse and cat and walked to my Aunt's house and stayed for hours.. until I was sure the mouse had either died, or packed his little bags and left. I figured he would be offended with me running away from him like that.
Would you stay in someone's house who ran from you? I wouldn't!

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We had one mouse last year. Peanut butter, cheese, etc... did not work for this little pesky creature. We finally had to resort to those sticky traps and I poured steak grease on it and that did the trick. Mice are becoming quite the snobs these days! lol

Had a tough day the day after the mousecapades kept me up all night. A 10 hour day at work which included a blinding snow squall, after which all our roads turned to ice and turned my 10 minute drive home into a 40 minute harrowing ride Worried like crazy about the kids who were on the top of a mountain racing. I shoveled when I got home, since I knew DH would be clearing the snow for his mom and 2 of her elderly neighbors on his way home from his 10 hr day.

So when I got in the house, I found the cats had tried to remove the brand new camel sueded stretch slipcover I had spent over 1 hour placing on a sofa the day before. So I am thinking either they do not like it, or the mouse is hiding under the couch. Both cats sat vigil there for over two days. I looked with a flashlight and saw nothing. Slowly, they lost interest. Btw, this is in our formal living room which we rarely use.

Dh and I flipped the couch on it's side today and I did find a couple dried mouse poops under it. Also inside a roll of wrapping paper I had under there. No sign of mouse, and all lining and fabric under the couch seems intact. I am thinking one of two things- mouse slipped away or it is dead inside the couch somewhere.

DH will set traps in the basement as we think that is the entry point, at the top of the foundation. This is the third time in 14 years we have seen a critter (once was a vole, not a mouse) and that is where we have trapped them, also in garage.

DH says I am one of the few people in the world who would worry about a tiny mouse injuring my fully clawed and toothed cats.