sf wrote:
> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>

The mouse wasn't brazen, Tandoora either does not know that she is a
cat or she knows that she will get something tastier if she comes to me
and tells me to feed her. )

Ajax, a cat I had many years ago, would catch flies. She would catch
them between her two front paws, then open them in order to see whether
the little insect was really caught. Of course her prey would fly away
and Ajax would scream with rage. Ajax was my best hunter, so you can
imagine how good the other six were.