Sleeping with the mousie

Follow up:

Alt text: Now she's looking at me like this, like it's my fault I lost it. I tore the whole bed apart. She caught it, and I have to sleep with it, but that's my fault, obviously.

Yeah, she was definitely trying to teach you to hunt (some cats seem to consider their owners just gigantic incompetent cats). She's probably saying something like "I even brought it right to you and you still couldn't catch it?!"
- I think you’re totally right. She’s a really good mouser, and normally kills what she catches – until this week. I live in a 140 year old house, and the mice like to come inside for warmth in winter. This will only be the second winter she’s lived here with me, and she’s brought me 2 live mice this month – but only one into my bed. She may be getting frustrated that I don’t kill and eat them like I’m supposed to.
  e: it kinda seems she’s trying to make it as easy as possible.
Just another fuzzy creature to snuggle with. She wanted to share
smh. How are you ever going to learn to catch mice when you can't catch one in your own bed?
- For real though, this may be what she’s actually thinking.

For the record, she could be trying to help you learn to hunt.

maybe.

or she's just an asshole.

When I lived in my previous house sometimes, when it was really hot, huge Cockroaches would come in the house or patio coming from the outside. My cat LOVES Cockroaches! She doesn't eat, just play with them until they not only die but pieces of it get scattered around the house.

Well one day I woke up with a live roach walking in my face and when I jumped from the bed there were pieces of another roach all over my bed! The pati looked like a rochpocalypse and the fucking cat was so tired and happy she just went to sleep in the living room. I had to put my clothes and bedding to wash and clean and change everything at 2am. This fucking cat

It's horrifying how cats will play with bugs and torture them. I have cats, and they're sadistic.
It amazes me when I see people with cats and hamsters. Because I just believe if they wanted to, that hamster would be in multiple pieces.
- I have a 26 feet long iron gate/fence in my house and I installed nets all over it so my cats would escape (which she still tried to do every night) and torture birds and bugs. Basically I live in an enclosure. Also because I love them I don't want them to get hurt or ran over. There are some trees that (they don't climb) and a patch of grass inside the gate but the birds learned not to go down here. Only once I found a dead bird...but roaches... oh boy

I once had a beagle that was a voracious insect killer. She would play with spiders, cockroaches, ants, etc. the same way people talk about cats playing with mice. Eventually, she would always make a mistake of pressing too hard when trapping the insect and pulling it back, and we'd have another little squish spot by the back door that needed to be cleaned.

Had a mouser cat drop a live mouse in my bed once. It ran up my leg. Haunted.

I cured her of the desire to bring me mice by trying to take them from her while she was still playing. I lost mouse privileges :(

Drag is afraid of cats because drag doesn't know how to say no in a way a cat can understand.
- Depends what you're teaching them. They're biting? Move away so they know playtime's over if they bite. Be consistent, because they won't get it the first time. Don't scratch that? Put a scratchable surface in front of it, and when they use it, reward them with positive attention. Etc.

I remember a time when my cat found a mouse in our cottage. Everyone was asleep or trying to sleep while the cat was looking for the mouse. For some reason, I looked at the bed's edge and saw tiny whiskers and a tiny nose. The mouse had sandwiched itself between the edge of the bed and the mattress, trying to hide from our cat. I think it got away, too. Made me feel good especially considering our cat was constantly bringing in mice it had killed.