Most likely she ate it. One day Rosie brought in a little dead mouse and started playing with it. I ordered her and her play thing out. Though the window I was pretty shocked to see her wolf down the poor little thing with the greatest ease (nothing left).

Rosie was an indoor cat for the first 15 months of her life. I think it is just pure instinct for some cats - they just know how to kill and what to do with it.

I agree - when my sweet little boy kitten hit 2 years old, he turned into a highly efficient mousing machine: when he's got one he has the most bloodcurdling growl and when I chased him outside with his latest catch a couple of days' ago it was gone within a minute - just a liver left on the back door step as proof that there'd ever been a mouse. What surprised me was that he then came inside and tucked into the remains of his breakfast as though he'd not been fed for weeks!

I reckon eaten - especially given the extreme(ish) reaction I got from my two when I first gave them mice.

I started off with the more usual raw - chicken wings, king prawns, etc. with limited success. When I first gave them the wings I rubbed crushed up thrive treats into them first to get the cats interested. By about the third or fourth attempt at feeding them the cats would have a go - mainly crunching the tip end - but still not much enthusiasm. Neither of them would touch the raw prawns...

Then I tried mice. I bought pinkies the first time, and fully expected to have to wiggle them around, maybe open them up....

No chance! As soon as the cats saw them it was a real light bulb moment - they went bonkers trying to climb my legs for them. Jones took 2 bites, Bob swallowed his whole, and they were both begging for more.

Moved straight on to adult mice next time and another blinding success. Under a minute of chomping and no more mice.

Mice and chicks they leave nothing - no blood, no bits, not so much as a whisker is left uneaten. You wouldn't know they'd had them.

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Just had to laugh at that