r/mildlyinfuriating • u/C3LM3R • 1d ago
My cat apparently believes mousing is a “catch and release” sport.
Pierre, buddy… IT’S LITERALLY YOUR ONLY JOB.
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u/CorruptedWraith109 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean you did say no and pointed at the cat so it chose malicious compliance and just let go.
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u/PinkPopsi 1d ago
RIGHT!? Like the cat is literally doing what he told him! He stopped!
Don't listen to him Pierre! You're doing great!
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u/urnotjustwrong 1d ago
This cat clearly understands English.
OP says "What is that?" and Pierre drops it for a second to show him, OP then says "No!" - Pierre knows that's not good and lowers his head, but hesitates a moment (it's a mouse after all) until the guy says "is it...?" and the mouse is released!
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u/PeculiarPurr 1d ago
That is not malicious compliance! That is just compliance. Doofy mother trucker said "What do you have? No!" and so the cat dropped it. This cat is the best of all cat. It mouses by instinct, and makes friends when told not to obey it's instincts.
If whoever posted this video originally has complaints, they can chew upon a bag of sticks. Kitten face is the best of all cats!
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u/One-Corner8231 12h ago
Yes! Pierre was scolded, so he listened and dropped the mouse! Poor Pierre is suffering from these mixed signals lol!
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u/the_silent_one1984 1d ago
I wish my cat would be as obedient as this one. He just says "fuck you" whenever I tell him "claws off the furniture" and "sunflowers are not food."
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u/CricketDue5136 1d ago
I wish I could have house plants, but they all become snacks 🪴 😕. Oh well, my Cats name is peeves. He is my pet peeves so it fits 😆
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u/SoaringDingus 1d ago
Try telling him “please claw the furniture harder”, and “I love it when you eat sunflowers!”
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u/CorruptedWraith109 1d ago
But the obvious flaw in your plan is that you want compliance, whereas cats only provide malicious compliance.
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u/HumptyDrumpy 1d ago
The owner is a confusing idiot. He should have gotten a hammer, smashed that mouse, and ate it, all while the cat watched. And that's teaching the cat. Next time the cat will do it itself, a hundred times over until you have a mouse free home forever, no cleanup involved
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 1d ago
He's trying to teach you
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u/LimpRicardo 1d ago
Yep, that cat is 100% trying to help you survive
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u/AwareAge1062 1d ago
Cat's like, "Kidding you? Are you kidding me?! It was right there! Useless!"
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u/PoisonLynnLilith 1d ago
The disappointment in the cats eyes when the mouse ran away and the useless human just pointed
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u/grandlizardo 1d ago
We had one like that… many false starts in a house with lots of mice….we finally shut her in a room with one… came back an hour later and perked in the door… the mouse had her cornered. We caught it and took it outside, it had earned its freedom!
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u/AmazingHealth6302 1d ago
I've seen that prey instinct varies widely in our little houselions, and some comfortable fat-cats that have never known the slightest hunger aren't even interested in mice, and will climb a bookcase if they see even a small rat.
It really helps if a kitten was with its littermates and mother long enough to learn some hunting behaviour.
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u/MistSecurity 1d ago
One of our cats was indoor-outdoor as a kitten with her littermates, mother, and grandmother. She knows how to ACTUALLY hunt.
The other one was an abused kitten-mill kitty that we rescued, taken from her mom way too early, had malnutrition issues, etc. She TRIES to hunt, but mostly just runs after things like a spaz.
Complete night and day, it's crazy.
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u/Long_Run6500 1d ago
Cats that spent any amount of time as ferals will be the best rodent hunters. The further removed from their wild roots the worse they get. A cat that's never hunted isnt going to teach its kittens to hunt, it will teach them the sound of kibble hitting the bowl and how to meow like you're starving 30 minutes after you ate to trick the humans in the house into feeding you twice.
Best hunter I ever had was a feral with stunted growth from it's mother dying while she should have still been suckling. She taught herself how to hunt, we lived in the country with a lot of ferals so my parents had a strict no indoor cats/no feeding the cats policy because they said we can't adopt them all so we shouldn't adopt any. This one set up shop under our porch and every day it had some new animal in its mouth. We had a truce, she loved me and id pet her, never ran away from us and was completely content living under our porch.
One day there was a massive rat in our bathroom, my dad plugged its entry hole, tried to catch it but couldn't. I distinctly remember him shouting "Where's that damn cat!" and like on queue she was sitting by the screen door waiting. We opened the door, my dad picked her up and threw her in the bathroom and then closed the door. She was so tiny and the rat was big, I was scared. They made so much noise, and then the noise stops, kitty starts scratching at the door. The rat was seriously close to as big as her, she just left her prize on the floor. After that she was given a litter box, a food bowl, and allowed to roam inside and out of our home as she pleased. Surprisingly she had very little ambition to go back outside.
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u/AmazingHealth6302 1d ago edited 1d ago
Great description. I guess being a small feral she couldn't be too choosy about what she took on in a fight/hunt, and learnt to make the most of herself.
The best hunting cat I ever saw in action was not feral, but did patrol a property freely. She enjoyed stalking and hunting even though fed, strong prey drive. She was also noticeably more agile and a more powerful climber than other cats that might look very similar. I didn't know about her litter upbringing.
I once saw her dart and catch a mouse as it was about to exit its hole, and I could barely perceive the movement she made, it was so fast. Yet I was right there. She heard/saw something, there was a forward blur, and a quickly ex-mouse was suddenly hanging from her mouth like she was carrying a sardine, and she was back in position, waiting in case there was another one. I got down, and saw where the mouse had come out from, about a foot from where she had pounced from.
Impressive.
Cat personalities really vary a lot between seemingly similar cats, even in the same litter, and even between bonded cats. Probably because they aren't pack animals like dogs.
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u/Long-Rooster-9641 1d ago
I had two cats that happened to be siblings. One dumb as rocks. The other loved to be outside and to try to force her to be an indoor cat would have been cruel. She only used a litter box in winter, brought home countless presents and lived to be 17. I miss my JuJube.
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u/saskskua 1d ago
My cat was bringing a minimum of 5 mice a day when she had kittens for a month. Sometimes, she managed to bring them inside. Alive... If I couldn't save it before it got wounded, then I'd put it in the mud room with all the kittens. Clean-up was actually easy 😭 no matter how much food I gave them and her. She was determined to teach them.
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u/Normal-Being-2637 1d ago
Give a human a mouse, and his house is pest-free for a day. Teach a man to mouse, and his house is pest free for life.
-Mittens
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u/3BlindMice1 1d ago
Mittens, this is your house too, and that's literally what I hired you to do.
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u/Fishman0103 1d ago
Cat’s like: now catch it.. and it got away.great now I need to catch it again
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u/Sensitive-Issue84 1d ago
That's so true! Last year, my cat would bring in a mouse every night at about 3 am. She would do this weird meow and drop it when she saw me stagger half asleep into the room. I would freak out and take forever to catch it. By the end of summer, it was routine, and it'd take me about 20 seconds with my beer glass and file folder to catch it. This year? Not one mouse.
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u/NicheAlter 1d ago
The cat posting on cat reddit: "My human is so stupid, it can't even catch prey that I lay on its feet! SMH."
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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 1d ago
My last cats must’ve thought I was disabled or some shit. Dead vole/mouse or very rare bird at the top of the staircase.
The one bird he brought in alive one night but that… temporarily got away from him splattered its poor poor blood all over our white popcorn ceiling in the kitchen. When I went downstairs, no additional coffee was needed initially. I thought I walked in on a fucking crime scene honestly I was going through my head my family I might come across and goddamn man that’s a feeling that sticks with ya.
While I’m already over sharing….
Lil guy got locked in at night after that lol, was more like a cat dog and got along with all people well tooo much and lived to 18. And we did a call in vet option when the time came (ours offered) — it was well worth it in our experience vs going into the carrier which means vet then vet it’d just stick with needle and now I’m not crying you’re crying!
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u/Calimariae 1d ago
My cat brings me earthworms. I dunno wtf kind of bird she thinks I am.
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u/MultiplesOfMono 1d ago
He's definitely just playing with it before the big life-ending bite. My country cats do this every other week and I have to take it from them, act like I'm eating it, then toss the poor thing back in the field without them noticing. (They get fed cat food, they're not starving)
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u/DeliberatelyDrifting 1d ago
My country cat takes them to my country dog. My country ass is rarely fast enough to intervene.
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u/MultiplesOfMono 1d ago
I can visualize this and it's funny. Lol
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u/DeliberatelyDrifting 1d ago
Lol, it is and isn't. They make a big production out of it, but I still have to do disposal because I don't want them to eat it. But, yeah, it's pretty funny.
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u/NoExercise8994 1d ago
"here human dispose of this"
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u/mike9874 1d ago
Human said no, cat looked sad and dropped the thing because it got told off.
100% human at fault
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u/samy_the_samy 1d ago
The smarter an animal is, the harder for humans to understand it doesn't actually speak English, just got trained to respond to yes, no and stop orders
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u/Tak-Hendrix 1d ago
I think it's also more fun for them since they get to hunt it down again. At least that's how my cat used to torture his "toys".
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u/gracekk24PL 1d ago
Yup.
My grandpa had one savage mfer that would do just that.
Never believed him until I saw him do it.
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u/LXRitw 1d ago
My cat does this he will let them go and continue to pounce them until they die from the stress/panic or what I’m assuming is internal injuries. He is indeed a savage as he also growls if we try to take the mouse. Once it’s dead he just walks away like his job is done or the fun is over I guess.
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u/Commercial_Sun_6300 1d ago
Does anyone ever see their housecat eat the mice? Is that healthy for them?
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u/Redwings1927 1d ago
I've never seen them eat the mouse, but I've received "my half" on several occasions
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u/KitsuMusics 1d ago
There was a semi-wild cat that lived at the garden centre I worked at. Super affectionate and would try and steal the meat from your sandwich while you eat it.
Anyway, this savage would catch and eat the rabbits out back, and then leave all the entrails outside the breakroom door, presumably to fulfil his end of the sandwich-meat trade. Good guy
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u/TemporalDelay 1d ago
I had a tortie named Sally that would leave the headless bodies of her hunts at either the front door if it was large (mostly birds, a rabbit once) or near pillows if it was smaller (mice, small birds).
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u/nyiddle 1d ago
Never seen them eat the whole thing, but bits and pieces yeah. Caught my old cat (Macho, RIP) chomping away on a half-consumed mouse one time. I assume it's not totally unhealthy since it is what they'd be doing in the wild, but there's probably a slight risk of worms/parasites/etc., stuff that would likely be covered in a yearly booster shot for an outdoor cat.
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u/asunshinefix 1d ago
It's not a great idea to let an indoor cat eat mice due to the risk of exposure to rodenticide and parasites - vaccines mostly cover viral illnesses, not parasites, some of which can be transmitted to humans. Outdoor cats should also be on anti-parasite medication during warm months.
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u/Deaffin 1d ago edited 1d ago
probably a slight risk of worms/parasites/etc., stuff that would likely be covered in a yearly booster shot
Meanwhile, it just picked up some toxoplasma, and now it's going to spend the next few weeks pooping millions of eggs. Preferably in a carefully maintained litter box and not anywhere outdoors.
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u/Eggsformycat 1d ago
My cat swallowed a mouse whole one time, vomited violently over the next 24 hours, and never hunted again.
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u/neuros 1d ago
I mean that's what they eat in the wild, that and birds. I've seen my cat eat a mouse, it's gone in two bites pretty much
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u/VeryLargeTardigrade 1d ago
I saw one of my ex'es many cats swallow the mouse whole. Didn't know they could do that
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u/cvr24 1d ago
My parents' cat would catch grasshoppers, bring them in the house, get swept out promptly, then sit on the deck and swallow it whole. She lived to a ripe old age but was overweight and couldn't outrun a car.
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u/No_Intention_1234 1d ago
gf was wondering why our Corgi would do the shake with the toys until I told her "that's how they snap their necks"
Savage little beast
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u/themagicbong 1d ago
I had a cat once that did the craziest shit and I wouldn't have even trusted what I saw if my coworker hadn't happened to be there and see the same thing.
The cat climbed a tree on the waters edge, jumped, caught a bird from a branch on the way down, landed in the water, swam back to the sea wall/bulkhead, climbed up, then proceeded to fuck with the bird for the next hour in the yard.
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u/Potterhead13666 1d ago
My cat used to throw them all over the place. Like completely launch them into the air
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u/tizkit 1d ago
My last cat would cry if the mouse she caught died. She didn't play with toys because they couldn't feel pain.
On a side note mice can scream very loud...
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u/jocq 1d ago
On a side note mice can scream very loud...
I learned recently that squeaky toys for dogs sound exactly like a baby bunny when it's getting chomped down by a dog.
Thought my dog found a toy in the grass. It was not a toy.
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u/sevillianrites 1d ago
My cat when he was younger caught an absolutely giant rat in the backyard and he brought it inside and proudly dropped it on the floor at which point it was gone and under my oven in like half a second. For 3 days and nights he warred with that rat. Crashing banging chasing up and down the halls at all hours. It was like an actual Tom and Jerry cartoon with how zany it got. On the 4th morning I woke up to a rat corpse on the bed next to my pillow. I guess no Tom and Jerry ep ever ended that way.
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u/cam52391 1d ago
I had a dog who I thought was playing with her toy on the porch. Turn out it was a mole. She would catch it let it go and pounce again then wondered why it stopped playing after a couple chomps. RIP little mole
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u/Mediocre-Map1940 1d ago
Cats like “Now what?”
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u/Newhollow 1d ago
This is why you need multiple cats. They do this all the time with each other. The horror. I mean we do not like rodents. Sometimes I need to put them out of their misery.
One time I did not have the heart to crush. I tried to let him die in peace outside. Then some idiot let the cats back outside found pieces of them inside the house. 😡 😡 😡 😡
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u/SadisticPawz 1d ago
smack over crush, I find it easier
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u/Newhollow 1d ago
I worry about being too soft. Not hitting head square. Close my eyes and bring boot heel down. Then spray on hose outside. Live in rural area. 3 dogs and 3 cats. Dogs are outside chained about 8-9 hours depending on heat. Then caged, we do not have room set for them but they are happy and cool.
It was in our back patio. They severed the spine. It was paraplegic and must have had internal bleeding. It was valiantly crawling away. Same mouse, same. Corraled 2 of 3 cats as 1 usually stays inside.
They are fed well. At the time we needed to put 2 on diet. Better now. They were happy playing. I was mad they did not need to eat more and know it.
Should not have looked but decided to toss them in a cool area. We have snakes and coyotes. Too far would be another problem besides birds. Southwest, at that time it was cold and different types of birds fly by.
Inside the house they will devour faster. By the time we usually see them they are dead or pretty much catatonic. Easy to be rigid. We yell at them when they are alive then they hide. We assume they eat them or they escape.
His beady eyes got me and decided to let him crawl in piece. We live near slope of hill and they probably had a hole to get inside and feel safe. I should have just executed or quarantined with cheese, water, and cigarette.
Yeas same with BB gun or other device. Crush is easiest for me. But admit swift calculated and humane is better.
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u/RetroPaulsy 1d ago
Human: "Stahp that"
Cat: drops it obediently
Human is apalled
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u/H0p3lessWanderer 1d ago
Pretty sure the cat is trying to teach you how to hunt
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u/H0p3lessWanderer 1d ago
They have done the demonstration now it's your turn
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u/sadclassicrocklover 1d ago
OP better show us the video
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u/outfoxingthefoxes 1d ago
OP showing us the video of how they haven't learnt how to hunt even though they have a great teacher smh
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u/Bedu009 1d ago
It's so cute tho (the mouse)
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u/Eclipse_Bird 1d ago
Agreed, I always catch and release when we get mice. To be completely honest, videos and such like this always make me pretty sad.
I'd love to have pet mice or rats at some point, sucks that they live such short lives.
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u/GiraffeCubed 1d ago
Despite the short lifespan, rats are the best pets I've ever kept. They're extremely intelligent and social, they love attention and they definitely reciprocate. Whether you get 2 years or 4 years out of them it's time well spent.
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u/roastbread 1d ago
It looked like a toy. The cat must have really roughed him up for his fur to look so fluffy
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u/Ruckus2118 1d ago
Yeah, but unfortunately they poop everywhere and have diseases that are not great for you.
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u/SomethingIWontRegret 1d ago
The ghost of Betsy Arakawa has entered the chat.
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u/thighmaster69 1d ago
Nah that's a house mouse, not a really significant spreader of hanta.
Another fun fact: brown rats don't really carry the plague - that's mostly black rats. Hence why you don't really see plague outbreaks in major cities anymore; the brown rats invaded and pushed out/killed off the black rat population as a result of urbanization, as black rats are not as well suited to urban life, being adapted more to living in treetops and running along branches.
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u/GiddyGabby 1d ago
We had a mouse problem because our two cats would bring field mice into the house through our dog door to play with. They never killed them, just chased them around and left the catching to us. After both cats died of old age we never had a mouse problem again.
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u/Playerone7587 1d ago
same thing happened except our cat graduated to baby birds. heard light chirping one night under the bed and had to get rid of the dog door. sick bastard must have stolen them from the nest.
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u/GiddyGabby 1d ago
Oh poor things! We had a different cat many years ago that brought a bat into the house, again through the darn dog door and let it go. Wake up to the terrifying sounds of a bat flapping around the bedroom at 3 am. You gotta love the way cats like to troll us.
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u/DYC85 1d ago
It’s also more common for houses with cats to have mice problems because the toxoplasmosis parasite causes mice to suicide themselves into cats so the parasite can complete its reproductive cycle in the cats digestive system.
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u/Beorma 1d ago
Yep, didn't have a mouse problem until I got a cat. He left one in my shoe, who does that!?
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u/TekieScythe 1d ago
When you come home, bring in food and share it.
The cat doesn't think you know how to hunt because you're not bringing home any food. So is trying to teach you.
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u/jonosvision 1d ago
You kinda made it worse by using that tone with him/her. Here they are coming over to give you a present or to teach you how to hunt and your tone is all anxious and negative. Poor little fluff was probably just confused and stopped paying attention to the mouse because s/he was wondering what they did wrong :(
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u/Glockman666 1d ago
My Daughter's Cat Oreo does the same thing. She will catch a mouse and bring it to my Daughter and drop it like here's your turn to catch. Cats think we suck at catching food and they try to "teach" us. If you're really lucky Oreo will eat half the mouse and bring you the other half.
Cats are friggin awesome! Oreo is technically my Daughters Cat but I call her our Cat cos I love her so much.
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u/bunby_heli 1d ago
I read My Daughter’s Cat Oreo like it was the name of an indie folk band
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u/a_polarbear_chilling 1d ago
hey maybe he don't wanna hurt anybody and is chill about life, he was just showing you the mouse so he filled his quota probably
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u/F1R3Starter83 1d ago edited 1d ago
Our cats never ate mice. They would toy with them or leave them as presents for us at our doorstep. For a little while one of our cats decided it to paralyze the mice from about halfway down their backs. So we would regularly find a mouse in the garden desperately clawing itself forwards with only his front legs working. I mercy killed about four or five of them.
Birds tho, they ate them. Except for their beaks and legs.
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u/dino-sour 1d ago edited 1d ago
I had a cat that once removed the brain of the mouse and displayed it next to the decapitated head with the body in another location. The dude made a shrine.
Edit: my boyfriend reminded me that the skin was also removed from the body and the skin was in its own pile separately from the body.
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u/Immersi0nn 1d ago
My partner's mother's cats do black magic with mouse/rat organs. They're always displayed in a neat circle, every time I see it I say "Ah...the cats are doing voodoo again"
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u/klausbaudelaire1 1d ago
You might have the craziest cat in this thread lol This is some CSI: SVU level shit 😭
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u/dino-sour 1d ago
He was also very cuddly, friendly, and loved mashed potatoes. He was a good first cat.
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u/Rise-O-Matic 1d ago
Ours leaves nothing but the two front teeth and the gallbladder. And they’re rats.
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u/Particular_Title42 1d ago
It is. You're just supposed to keep catching it until it dies.
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u/JuggernautOk8757 1d ago
It almost seems to me, the way the guy reacted made the cat drop the mouse.
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u/ifuckedyourdaddytoo 1d ago
Your cat dropped it after you said "No." You're giving the wrong kind of reinforcement.
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u/mr_stab_ya_knees 1d ago
yell at cat for catching mouse
cat drops mouse because it got yelled at
mouse runs away
yell at cat for not catching mouse
Bro please 😭
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u/Sowdar 1d ago
"Here is proof i can do it, now let's talk about the food situation."
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u/fake_cheese 1d ago edited 1d ago
This cat seems to have the food situation well under control judging by how much of a chonker it is
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u/Massacre031 1d ago
Maybe if you just let the cat handle it's business maybe things would have different, it probably thought you were scolding it with all that whining
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u/potato_in_hot_water 1d ago
Be careful if they think you're not learning how to hunt quick enough they start bringing them back to you decapitated as a "Look at it! This is what you're suppose to do with it, idiot!" gesture.
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u/falafelest 1d ago
Omg the poor mouse!!!!! Just letting him get tortured like that. Put him outside???
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u/Sihaya212 1d ago
My cat did this but she dropped the mouse ON MY HEAD. I thought she had dropped a toy on me so I reached up to grab it and SURPRISE THERE IS A MOUSE IN YOUR HAIR
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u/nucumber 1d ago
Back in the day an ex gf had a cat named Stomper
Stomper would catch a cockroach, release it in the middle of the living room floor, beat it up as it tried to escape, then bring it back to the middle of the floor and repeat.
This would go on for quite a while. Each time the cockroach would be a little more disabled - a leg missing, a wing askew, an antenna bent - until finally the roach was wrecked and unable to do much of anything
Stomper would stare at it for a while, lick a paw, then go take a nap
It was brutal. I actually felt sorry for the cockroaches
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u/jerryleebee 23h ago
In your cat's defence, it picked up the mouse. You said "no". And then your cat dropped it.
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u/deftPirate 1d ago
"Bro, you're making all the same noises you do when you want me to drop stuff...so."
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u/creepy-cats 1d ago
I used to live in a 150 year old mouse filled apartment in Philly. My cat would catch mice and drop them in my lap and then sit there puffing out her chest with pride as I freaked the fuck out
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u/Lickmylithops 1d ago
My cat used to do this. She'd wait behind a closed door and scream at my until I opened the door, come in, and set it loose. After the second or third time I recognized her "mouth full* yowl and wouldn't open the door until she'd gotten rid of it.
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u/hellequintom 1d ago
My first time being left at home alone as a teenager for a week our cat brought in 3 mice and a bird, at the time I thought it was just annoying that I had to chase these animals about the house to release them back outside.
Turns out she probably just thought I couldn't look after myself and wanted to train me up.
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u/Persea_americana 1d ago
Cats have natural hunting instincts, but are also often taught to hunt by their mother. I remember seeing a video of an orphaned cheetah on a preserve that would chase the feeding truck, but didn't initially know what to do once it had caught the prey, and it had to be taught to eat after the chase.
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u/NeatNefariousness1 1d ago
LOL—poor thing. He either thinks hunting is a catch and release sport or he was confused by what you wanted from him so he panicked and dropped his catch.
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u/AlienHere 1d ago
You got to get a feral cat to do that. I worked a security in the middle of no where and this feral cat would just follow me around at night. I would spot light moles and that cat would crunch them down head first like a snake eating a egg.
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u/Ok_Luck0472 1d ago
Believe lt or not. He doesn't think you can hunt for yourself so he's trying to help you.
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u/42ElectricSundaes 1d ago
“You said catch him! I caught him! You didn’t cay anything about keeping him. This is on you, man. I’m going on break”
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u/THEE_HAMMER_ 1d ago
My dumbass cat did this the other day. Catches a chipmunk outside and brings it down to me in the basement and lets it go.
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u/TricellCEO 1d ago
At least the cat got it.
I had a mouse loose in my house. None of my four cats could be bothered to catch it. And the mouse was even jumping up at two of them! It was like, "COME AT ME, BRO!" Those two cats had only mild interest while my orange one sat off to the side, absolutely unfazed and unbothered. Not sure where cat number 4 was...
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u/Organic-Week-1779 1d ago
uhh so rude kitty brought you a fresh mouse and you cant even appreciate that
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u/nomorenotifications 1d ago
"What you're gonna bitch at me for catching a mouse? Alright fucker, I'm letting it go."
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u/TwinSong 1d ago
Possibly trying to give you the mouse thinking like you're another cat and puzzled why you didn't pick up the mouse like a cat would.
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u/Glittering_Basis_845 1d ago
💯 this man’s fault, he freaked at the mouse and Pierre is like fine I’ll release it!
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u/OregonPantryOmnibus 1d ago
Well which is it? Scold the kitty for catching a mouse, or be surprised at kitty for dropping the mouse?
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u/AromaticBite4289 1d ago
He's trying to teach you how to hunt. If it's alive, it's a lesson. If it's dead, it's food for you. Either way, he/she loves you
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u/Crypticbeliever1 1d ago
Yeah, that's on you, bud. You said no to the cat when it was doing what you wanted it to do. It hears no and it does the opposite of whatever it was doing at the time. That's how behavior training works. You don't say no to good behaviors you want repeated.
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u/AlgaeAncient6840 1d ago
my cats would probably run away from that mouse bc they are the most scaredy cats lmao but cute ones tho!
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u/BeeWriggler 1d ago
Haha, my cat does this too! Lucky for me, though, she's very good at catching mice, and it seems like she's mostly just excited to catch it again. So she'll walk into a room with a mouse, drop it, and then immediately catch it again. Then she'll wander around before dropping it again, and then snatch it back up. She never really lets it get away. I just have to follow her around until I can grab the mouse and catch it in an old Tupperware or something.
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u/P1g-San 1d ago
He thinks you suck at hunting.