Pair enjoy break from playing cat and mouse
Friday 25th November 2011, 10:59AM GMT.
Cat and mouse are traditionally nature’s bitter enemies – but one pet moggy in Shropshire was happy to share his dinner with a visiting rodent.
Hannah Lightwood, the owner of three-year-old cat Stewie, got a big surprise when she discovered her pet enjoying a meal for two with the mouse at her home in Upton Magna recently.
She said since moving into the property, which is near an open field, she has discovered a lot of mice – both dead and alive – in her home.
But on this particular occasion Stewie seemed to take a shine to the furry visitor.
She said: “Stewie was eating and I could hear a crunching sound.
“I thought it was him but when I went to look I realised it was a mouse that was chewing on some dry biscuits that I had put out for Stewie.
“Stewie has brought in quite a few mice both dead and alive but that was the only mouse who was allowed to share his dinner.”
Miss Lightwood, who is also the owner of a nine-year-old cat, Bubbles, said she picked the mouse up in a tea towel and released him back into the field.
“He was a very fat mouse by the time he had finished and he was completely fine, except he was very full,” she added.
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