I have 2 older outside cats and they have an old dog house with a heated whelping mat in there to stay warm. When we have a warm spell, they go off for a few days but sometimes 10 days, before coming back to their warm house. I think they are just on vacation during those times and love to see them back home again.
Aren't they great to make sure we know they are busy 'working' when we see their treasure.

If my cats saw a mouse in the house they would just think it was another pet I brought home.

I hate mice, they can be so destructive. They will chew up anything for bedding. Cost doesn't matter. Fixing openings about 1/8" and larger sure slows down the traffic. I have heard they leave a trail of urine and others follow it inside.

I do think Mickey and Minnie are very cute.

Many years ago I had a mouse chew completely through a ceiling tile! They are cute, but very destructive. We lived in the country and always got one or two in the house in the fall when the fields were cut down for winter. Traps with peanut butter always did the trick.

When we were first married, We would have them in the house all the time. We had refinished the entire old house. It had been empty for many years. I don`t know what was worse, a mouse running over a foot when you got up in the night or when the trap went off in the middle of the night in our closet, some were loud. Then came the barn work, My hubby thought it was funny to send me to the pig barn to get a shovel, after dark, and when I picked up the shovel there would be a rat. A whole bunch of near by farmers could hear me.

Yep when one lives in the country ya get em. DH's parents moved next door and they are catching mice-MIL thinks of them as dirty and their house is dirty. They want to throw something under the house to take care of the mice .. told em to go to a co-op as the traps aren't working.
We have them but not in the house as the foster cat takes care of them.

Onebyone: when we had our 40+ acres we had heated dog houses for the cats and they also led into the garage which was heated. Once in a while we would let them in the house to come by the fireplace to get warm if it was that cold outside and give them some cooked chicken as a reward. Usually they just got the leftover meats when out in the garage in addition to their cat food. Great cats tho. We did have one that was momma kitty and she would alert us if the kids were crying or in danger. Miss her for sure !
Oh and no mice .. LOL

What I hate worse than mice are roaches. Here in the south they are crazy lil creatures. Never had them up north but omg here especially if it rains. I use DE to get them. They eat this stuff and go back to nest and die and babies eat the mother and they die. I know its gross. Since I got this electronic device, haven't seem too many around. Mice are disease carriers like anything else that crawls.

Agree! Get the boogers! Hate them!

Sandy

Well at our house the cat does not go for the mice. My little wiener dogs get them. Great hunters.

No activity in the traps for two days now. So tonight we move them from the main floor up to the attic. This means war!

Put out the decon. I found that it works well, just make sure pets don't get to it, put it under something low. The mice will find it, but the others don't.