You can lead a cat to the mouse but you cannot make her catch it
This morning, there was a mouse in the bath-tub. It had got in and could not get out again. So, I enticed my cat, Prunella, inside and placed her in the bathtub. Twice. Each time, she got straight out, even when second time I put her in facing the mouse down that end of the bathtub.
So, having let the cat out of the house to feed her, I picked the mouse up in tongs and presented the captive mouse to Prunella. Who immediately raced away.
The mouse then escaped into the backyard.
Prunella is normally happy to catch mice. She has sometimes spent long periods staring at a cupboard because she can smell a mouse. She has passed up her ordinary food to catch a mouse and race away with it.
Not today apparently.
So, having let the cat out of the house to feed her, I picked the mouse up in tongs and presented the captive mouse to Prunella. Who immediately raced away.
The mouse then escaped into the backyard.
Prunella is normally happy to catch mice. She has sometimes spent long periods staring at a cupboard because she can smell a mouse. She has passed up her ordinary food to catch a mouse and race away with it.
Not today apparently.