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Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:04 pm**

WiseOne wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:59 pm My sister lives in a wooded area and is constantly beset by mice. I gave her bags of used cat litter to sprinkle around the base of the house. She reports this worked better to reduce her mouse problem than anything else she's tried - and it's a lot less toxic.

Oh, I'll have to look into that. We're in the woods and when we first bought the house (2008) we quickly discovered that the house seemed pretty infested with them. Over time it's gotten a lot better, but it's still an issue.

Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:05 pm**

WiseOne wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:59 pm Yet another cat & mouse story....

My sister lives in a wooded area and is constantly beset by mice. I gave her bags of used cat litter to sprinkle around the base of the house. She reports this worked better to reduce her mouse problem than anything else she's tried - and it's a lot less toxic.

I've got a bag stashed by my front door awaiting her next visit!

I guess it also tells you that the mice don't have toxoplasmosis, right?

Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:23 pm**

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Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:27 pm**

S/he’s got a litle beauty mark, like Madonna. That’s cool. Great looking cat.

Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:41 pm**

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:27 pm S/he’s got a litle beauty mark, like Madonna. That’s cool. Great looking cat.

You know what’s funny? I have the same mole/beauty mark thing on the same spot on my face lol! We figure it was meant to be.

Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:53 pm**

Ha, that makes 3 of us. Well, when I was a child my mother called it a beauty mark (and told me i was special). More recently, she said, “Have you considered removing that mole?”

She meant for health’s sake. It’s not unsightly.

In any case, I love the random color variations on cats.

Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:36 pm**

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:23 pm 56BC13AF-5F49-47E6-A585-9EFC0095F716.jpeg

Continues to be such a beautiful cat in SO many ways! Keep them coming! At LEAST one a day!

Vinny

Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:44 pm**

yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:36 pm Continues to be such a beautiful cat in SO many ways! Keep them coming! At LEAST one a day!
Vinny

Lily (my cat), says that she is extremely flattered that she has earned another fan.

One more for the road!

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Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:45 pm**

So that’s what it looks like without ice and snow.

Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:46 pm**

Well, things have gotten interesting...

After catching her first mouse ever (sometime between last night and this morning), our gray cat (Zuzu) caught yet *another* mouse this evening. I was busy in the basement fixing something and I heard my wife and daughter yell to me about it. By the time I came upstairs, my daughter had a cardboard box covering the mouse. Apparently Zuzu wasn't too happy that they had taken away her toy. They told me that they were in the other room when they heard what sounded like a squealing mouse, got up, and saw Zuzu with the mouse in her mouth and swinging it around.

When I got upstairs, my daughter with the cardboard box was near our rear slider, so I got a broom, opened the slider, told her to lift the box, and I swept it outside. It didn't look like it was moving much, so it was either stunned, or close to death. I'll check in the morning to see if its dead body is still in the same spot on my deck.

And it didn't quite stop there...later in the evening, Zuzu was standing/staring at our mini wine fridge in the kitchen. I pulled the fridge out and there was no mouse in sight (but possibly some mouse droppings). I suspect that now that she's gotten a "taste" for mice, that she's now in some sort of "active" mode, looking for any sign of more mice.

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:05 am**

CT-Scott wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:46 pm Well, things have gotten interesting...

After catching her first mouse ever (sometime between last night and this morning), our gray cat (Zuzu) caught yet *another* mouse this evening. I was busy in the basement fixing something and I heard my wife and daughter yell to me about it. By the time I came upstairs, my daughter had a cardboard box covering the mouse. Apparently Zuzu wasn't too happy that they had taken away her toy. They told me that they were in the other room when they heard what sounded like a squealing mouse, got up, and saw Zuzu with the mouse in her mouth and swinging it around.

When I got upstairs, my daughter with the cardboard box was near our rear slider, so I got a broom, opened the slider, told her to lift the box, and I swept it outside. It didn't look like it was moving much, so it was either stunned, or close to death. I'll check in the morning to see if its dead body is still in the same spot on my deck.

And it didn't quite stop there...later in the evening, Zuzu was standing/staring at our mini wine fridge in the kitchen. I pulled the fridge out and there was no mouse in sight (but possibly some mouse droppings). I suspect that now that she's gotten a "taste" for mice, that she's now in some sort of "active" mode, looking for any sign of more mice.

You do have a "hunter / killer"!

We'll have to see if the mice in your neighborhood have the same communications systems that the mice in mine seem to have. As I stated earlier, after the two killings / murders in my house this past winter , the word seems to have spread among all the mice in my neighborhood that my house is not a safe one to enter.

Vinny

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:07 am**

MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:30 am
CT-Scott wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:46 pm Well, things have gotten interesting...
Zuzu
My Shih-tzu's name is Zoe, but everyone calls her ZoZo. Too funny.

She's named after the youngest daughter in "It's a Wonderful Life."

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:04 pm**

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:07 pm**

ha! Is that real? The cat’s mask?

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:20 pm**

I don't know if it's real or not, but it's a very skillful and hilarious shop if it isn't.

EDIT honestly, the original people were hilarious for putting a mask on a cat too, if real. Hilarious either way. I'll bet they had a sense of humor, taking a family portrait (expensive) in masks.

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:57 pm**

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yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:54 pm Dualstow!

New {avatar} a rabbit??!!

Nah, it's the same cat. :-)
A closeup of her front paws which she is employing as her pillow.
You can see her nose pointing left and the black background behind her face is the tip of her tail.

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:58 pm**

yankees60 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 9:07 pm Since I have 19 total pets I thought I'd split this up into three posts....

Cute pets! Thanks for sharing!

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:01 pm**

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:57 pm (from another thread)
yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:54 pm Dualstow!

New {avatar} a rabbit??!!
Nah, it's the same cat. :-)
A closeup of her front paws which she is employing as her pillow.
You can see her nose pointing left and the black background behind her face is the tip of her tail.

That is because you know what it is. I've made it huge to cover my entire 23" monitor and I cannot see what you are saying. So, if you had told me that it was a rabbit, I'd have no reason to dispute you. The tail is quite blurry in the picture.

Vinny

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:05 pm**

Correct- I would not expect you or anyone else to know what it is at first glance and without a description.
A rabbit was not an unreasonable guess.

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:09 pm**

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Posted: **Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:12 am**

That is hilarious, Vinny! Our cat spends a fair amount of time under a framed David Bowie poster.
^Lily is looking great as always.^

Posted: **Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:38 am**

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:04 am 27E23857-CAC6-4F4B-97BB-CCAB39A11D98.png

She always looks like she belongs to some "royalty" within the cat family!

Vinny

Posted: **Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:32 am**

This one was the straight on view.

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Posted: **Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:38 am**

Those claws remind me that our cat deeply scratched an antique Chinese elm chest. It was the first thing I saw this morning. She really hates having her claws trimmed.

In the current avatar, the paw on top is a forepaw, and the white one on bottom is a hind paw with claws intact.

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