Puzzling mouse situation

[Anonymous]

Yesterday DH found our cat with a dead mouse in his mouth. We looked for evidence of mice all over our house and didn’t find anything. The cat had been on the screened porch, so DH thought maybe the mouse might have gotten in there through a small whole somewhere.

Tonight the cat was out on the porch again and the door to the house was closed and we noticed the cat chasing another mouse. We managed to bring the cat in without the mouse getting into the house and put a trap out on the porch.

We’re puzzled as to why we had mice on the porch two days in a row (rather than a rogue mouse that just happened to wander in one day). There’s no food or anything we can think of to attract them. Why is this happening?? Now we can’t let the cat out there or leave the door from the house to the porch open!!

[Anonymous]

It's getting cold out, that's when mice try to find their way into warmer places like houses. If you had food out there too, great: one-stop shopping! But even without food they prefer to live/sleep/burrow somewhere warm and venture into the cold for food.

[Anonymous]

You think that mice only come to homes where people put out things to attract them? You also think there is a limit to how many mice come to one home?
Are you coherent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yesterday DH found our cat with a dead mouse in his mouth. We looked for evidence of mice all over our house and didn’t find anything. The cat had been on the screened porch, so DH thought maybe the mouse might have gotten in there through a small whole somewhere.

Tonight the cat was out on the porch again and the door to the house was closed and we noticed the cat chasing another mouse. We managed to bring the cat in without the mouse getting into the house and put a trap out on the porch.

We’re puzzled as to why we had mice on the porch two days in a row (rather than a rogue mouse that just happened to wander in one day). There’s no food or anything we can think of to attract them. Why is this happening?? Now we can’t let the cat out there or leave the door from the house to the porch open!!

what kind of question is this? Mice aren’t solitary and they come into homes. Duh!

[Anonymous]

How is this puzzling? Mice doing mice things.

[Anonymous]

The puzzling thing is that the mice aren’t being scared away by the cat.

[Anonymous]

Must be the first person to have mice on her screened in porch ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The puzzling thing is that the mice aren’t being scared away by the cat.

First house ever with a cat to have mice.

[Anonymous]

Tough crowd. Sorry if I’m not a mouse expert. We’ve been in this house for 10 years and have never had a mouse before this week. We had mice once in 5 years at our old house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tough crowd. Sorry if I’m not a mouse expert. We’ve been in this house for 10 years and have never had a mouse before this week. We had mice once in 5 years at our old house.

And you thought you were immune to it because of this?
I had a family of turkeys at my house for 1 year and never have the other 40 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tough crowd. Sorry if I’m not a mouse expert. We’ve been in this house for 10 years and have never had a mouse before this week. We had mice once in 5 years at our old house.

No one needs to be a mouse expert to know that mice may appear at some point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yesterday DH found our cat with a dead mouse in his mouth. We looked for evidence of mice all over our house and didn’t find anything. The cat had been on the screened porch, so DH thought maybe the mouse might have gotten in there through a small whole somewhere.

Tonight the cat was out on the porch again and the door to the house was closed and we noticed the cat chasing another mouse. We managed to bring the cat in without the mouse getting into the house and put a trap out on the porch.

We’re puzzled as to why we had mice on the porch two days in a row (rather than a rogue mouse that just happened to wander in one day). There’s no food or anything we can think of to attract them. Why is this happening?? Now we can’t let the cat out there or leave the door from the house to the porch open!!

They are foragers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tough crowd. Sorry if I’m not a mouse expert. We’ve been in this house for 10 years and have never had a mouse before this week. We had mice once in 5 years at our old house.

This isn’t a tough crowd. This is common sense. What are you puzzled about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough crowd. Sorry if I’m not a mouse expert. We’ve been in this house for 10 years and have never had a mouse before this week. We had mice once in 5 years at our old house.

This isn’t a tough crowd. This is common sense. What are you puzzled about?

About why we’d have mice coming into the porch two days in a row when we’ve never had mice on the porch before. I have a preference for it not to keep happening, so I’m wondering what could be different now vs. before so we can try to fix it.

[Anonymous]

It's normal, OP. All my friends with outdoor cats kill rodents and birds regularly, and those with indoor cats occasionally catch the odd mouse inside their own homes. It doesn't mean you have a mouse infestation. It means your cats are protecting you from a mouse infestation.

Let them do their job.