There's a mouse, loose about my house!

10? You have 10 cats?? Wow. My friend has 5 and I thought that was greedy! 

hehehe .. I know 10..1 cat was bad enough ,she managed to hog the bed like nobodies business.

Don't know if we will get another cat ,I got so attached to her and where ever I went she always followed ,it's been 2 months and I still check under my feet to make sure I don't kick her

 It's awful isn't it? We had two cats and one of mine got poisoned last year. She was my big furry soppy pusscat. A real hardcore killer but soft as anything with humans. I still feel pretty cut up about it! 

Strange really as I never really liked cats, but I kind of inherited one was living mortgage free in a flat at the time. Decided to buy a house with a garden for her... like you do Came home from work early one day, standing in the garden another cat popped over the fence, she had a broken leg. Telephoned a charity, who said they would pay to have her put to sleep if I would be kind enough to take her to my vet. After a brief discussion with vet and me parting with the best part of £1500 we got her fixed and I bought her home....

Unbeknown to any of us, she was not spayed and came into season = 6 kittens four of these went to veterinary nurses and I kept one, the other one was going to be re-homed by cats protection. On the eve of me taking this kitten to the CPS, the kitten decided to sleep on my pillow all night.... following morning I drove the 20 odd miles to her new home, got to the front door.... Then guilt kicked in and I could not hand her over, so back home we came.... apart from the odd bite to my toes she has not slept on the bed in the last 10 years, only ever did it that one night.

Then four or five years later, I stumbled across an advert where someone was selling a pregnant cat, stated that it was going to be her second litter as well. To me the cat still looked like a kitten herself as was just being bred for finance. So decided it was going to be her last pregnancy and went and bought her. Took her to the vets to see when the kittens were due, he estimated five weeks according to the scan, he said. At midnight the same day out pop the kittens another four.... The other one was dumped and left behind by some students who got evicted....

Thankfully none of them can breed now, can do what they like within reason. There's only a few ground rules, no puking or crapping indoors and no fighting or clawing of furniture and in return they will be fed, watered, have the best healthcare and a bed..... most of the time they keep their side of the bargain.....

hehe you are a sucker for punishment. They do take over your life though and know how to pull your heart strings.. Good on you for being such a softy and keeping them .. If I ever do get another it will most certainly have pet insurance ,they do tend to cost a fortune when they are unwell

Holy moly, I knew you liked cats Barney, but 10! I thought 3 was enough, though now all 3 croaked it with 2 years of each other from old age and cancer, the house is odd being cat free.

After always claiming to not be a cat person, I will confess to missing them and blarted like a school girl when each one got put down. No doubt there will be a trip to the rescue centre in the near future where we will end up taking home the most pathetic looking specimen(s) 

My cat is a great mouser - only problem is that she thinks its great to bring them back to me !!!

She has learnt to kill them now as any live ones get put back in the field whence they came, much to her disgust. Even the dead ones get unceremoniously thrown over the hedge - its not a case of i'm against her eating them more a case of over eating = the sound of her vomiting at 3am 

Birds are a favorite of hers too. Usually she eats these outside but i have come back on a couple of occasions to a feather filled lounge and a chewed off head looking at me ....

Tell me again why we love these delightful creatures 

I had one of my most traumatising experiences thanks to my late cat Bubble. She liked to catch huge pigeons and doves. One time she caught a racing pigeon and we found it's leg and had to call the owner (you could just tell he was an old chap with a flat cap and sounded really cut up about it)  But WORST of all the time she brought in a half decapitated pigeon which proceeded to fly around the room and spread feathers and blood everywhere, including a big splat of blood on the window! I didn't know what to do! I ended up having to catch it and drown it in a bucket. I was pregnant at the time so couldn't even have a stiff drink afterwards - TRAUMATISED! 

Barney, I love how you got all your cats! You big old softie! 

I try not to allow mine to catch natural live prey, they've no need to do it, but cats are instinctive hunters. They use and abuse us humans, one of mine 'Scruffy' one of the ugliest cats ever, she'll only come to you either when you feed her, or you're eating your dinner, or if you're standing next to the fridge/freezer. If you go to pick her up she'll shred your arms, every year when it's her time for vaccinations / health check I have to dress up in my motorbike gear for protection. 

I've got a couple who are real good hunters, Ronsky, he's Bengal cross, he was catching squirrels from 6 weeks old, his brother Igloo, he'll be in the garden all night long, he'll be doing back flips for hours trying to catch moths. You know when he's out at night as the security lights go on and off like a flipping disco.... And then there's Venus, who will dig the garden for me and bring me a pile of worms...... 

Haha you can almost see the glee in the cats face at the prey being so close