Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
mice on Falkland Road?
For the last three night- and once in the day - I've wandered into the garden to see a cat pursuing a mouse across the grass. Anyone else on Falkland Road, or the ones close by, noticing anything indicating an increase in mice in the area?
Is it a matter of time before they find a way into homes? Should I get pest control in now? If so any suggestions?
In 12 years here, never seen a mouse running across the grass, let alone four sightings in three days, and not had mice in the flat, thank god.
Incidentally the cat is so sweet that while it corners the mouse/mice, gets it in its mouth, it can't bring itself to kill it. It is possible that it has been chasing the same mouse for three days now, but I doubt it.
many thanks
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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It sounds like you have both a problem (mice) and a solution (cat). The cat will eventually kill it and hopefully not leave the entrails on your pillow.
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Permalink Reply by Vikram Dodd on
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thanks. It's next door's cat, who hangs out over here a fair amount. Not sure s/he is the solution, as seems happy acting as a transport service for the mice, ferrying them in its mouth up and down the garden, and maybe from one garden to another. v thoughtful. What is cat speak for "kill"?
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Permalink Reply by GillianM on
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I think the problem is probably the cat! That's probably the reason you are only noticing mice now. They're all around us and you've done well not to see one in 12 years on the ladder!
Or it could be that one of your neighbours has put poison down - some of it is quite slow acting so the mice get ill and confused and start wandering around without their usual caution.
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Permalink Reply by amy baldwin on
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yes it is our cat!
He brings them to us for breakfast! One is currently cowering behind the cooker. Fun.
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I am sorry to say that the cat's behaviour is perhaps not down to sweetness.... she may be taking it somewhere to torture it unseen, thus greatly prolonging the misery as a mouse is no fun when it's dead.
Anyway as others mentioned there are numerous mice around all neighbourhoods and they often wander about looking for food. If you've only seen them in gardens and not inside, you have little to worry about. Most likely the cat has found a nest somewhere and is bringing them closer to home territory for "fun", one at a time rather than abusing and reabusing the same one (it would take a really tough mouse).
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Don't think the cat has set up its own "Guantanamo" in and around the garden to torture the mice.
It picks one up in its mouth, drops it. Mouse stays still, cat forgets. Mouse moves, cat paws it and and maybe picks it up again. Then cat drops mouse. And on it goes, like some circle of life.
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Sounds like Toxoplasmosis.
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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Agree with Gillian- its prob more a cat problem with it having found a nest of mice and bringing them out of the nest individually- unfortunatly my cat does that, except brings them in my flat for me to catch, rescue in my mouse rescue box to then feey it off to the park, before it burrows into some crack and dies of either starvation or fear- and then that is repeated 2-3 times until he has got a;ll the wee mice presumably from the same nest in the garden
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Do you ever get the impression that adult posters on HOL / Facebook /Twitter etc have dropped in yesterday from some cottonwool-protected and innocent corner of LooLa land or Mars, without the benefit of growth and observation from infancy through childhood and adolescence? What should we do with them? Euthanasia might be a kind solution in a big and dangerous world where mice have started playing croquet on the Ladder's lawns.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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If they bring in live mice for you, that's flattering as they think you are almost grown-up. Kittens are trained by being brought a succession of prey - first dead, then progressively less dead, so they learn to hunt and kill. They must be impressed with your powers.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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Back in the 50s, at the bottom end of Falkland, was the grain dealers Flack and Son... wonder if there's a cache of millet under there somewhere....? BTW, Robert Flack was a friend of mine at North Harringay.
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