Your cat is a member of the family. If you had a kid and gave it food twice a day, never talked to it, and didn't learn how to let it talk to you, your kid would also develop an internal life that you're not really part of.

Speak for yourself, my absolute dope of a cat was able to resolve the mouse problem in my new apartment within 48 hours (she didn't even manage to catch any, her mere presence was apparently sufficient).

But how's your grain doing?

As my friend's dad said after finding his wife's cat with a headless mouse

"I hate cats, but I love a good mouser."

For the first few months after I moved to a rural area my cat caught about 1 mouse/week. After that, there were no mice.

Of course she brought them to my bedroom at three in the morning, still alive. And I sometimes stepped on decapitated mice in the morning. And she left dead ones on my keyboard. And I had to get a new mechanical keyboard when the guts got into it and it started to smell like death. She's still the best

If your cat relieves themself outside of their litter tray, something is probably out of sorts: perhaps they’re distressed by something in their environment, or otherwise have some health issues. The cat’s litter-tray instinct normally makes them uniquely suited to indoor living.

Nothing more Lemmy than people taking memes way too seriously in the comments.

I catsat my then gf’s cat for a weekend and the mouse issue I had went away.

Countryside cats are still pretty much the former.

My friend’s neighborhood has a cat that keeps the rodent population in check. Also kills all the birds but you take the good with the bad, I guess.

My cat is a fantastic mouser. He offers them to me as gifts.