On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:44:34 GMT, Margaret Suran
> wrote:

> Tandoora, my cat, acted like a true
> feline, at least an apartment kitty: As long as she suspected there
> might be a mouse in the kitchen, she hid in my bedroom.
>
LOL1 She doesn't like wild animals in your house any more
than you do.

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>
> I live on the 20th floor of an apartment building. Exterminators come
> every week to make sure that no kind of creepy crawly things live in the
> building, yet I have had mice several times before. At those times, I
> had three cats living with me. The cats would actually catch the mouse,
> play with it for a while and then let it go. Not once did one of them
> kill a mouse.

According to what I've heard/read, cats need to be trained
by their mothers to catch and kill mice. Otherwise mice are
interesting playthings to them.
>
> Tandoora is still staying out of the kitchen.
>
LOL! Let's face it, NYC mice are brazen and don't scare
easily.


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