Mouse Update -- The Doofus Caught It This Time!

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My cat Nero, the hunting-impaired one with the hueueueuge claws and fangs that are so long they overlap his bottom lip (he's well-armed and usually about as dangerous to the local fauna as a jar of marshmallow fluff), caught a mouse in the kitchen last night, but he dropped it and it skittered under the stove and ran away.

About an hour ago, he came trotting in here to the living room, where I was sitting at the computer, with the mouse in his mouth, whereupon he dropped the mouse in front of me (he wanted to share, nice kitty! yuck!), then caught it again and took it out to the kitchen because I got up and led him out there.

He caught it again and kind of squished it, so it was pretty well dead by the time I scooped it up using a Tupperware bowl and a manilla envelope. It was definitely dead (or maybe just unconscious -- do mice faint?) when I flushed it down the toilet. If it wasn't dead by then (but I think it was), it is now...

That's the first thing Nero's *ever* caught. Usually, his idea of hunting is to take two or three inadequate swipes in the direction of the thing I'm trying to get him to catch (with his claws in, of course), and then look pleased with himself and demand to be petted.

I've got a couple traps out and a bunch of Warfarin bait (non-toxic to cats, as it's in a grain-based medium), so hopefully that's the end of it for now. (I really need to move!)