Originally published at: Real-life Tom & Jerry: security video of house cat playing with mouse instead of killing it | Boing Boing
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100% that mouse’s behavior is caused by a parasite
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Neat, but surely “the real life Tom and Jerry” involves Tom trying to EAT Jerry, no?
Also lots of mallets and stuff
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Where’s Butch?
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Narrator: the mouse was not enjoying itself.
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My cat does this with house spiders. They are NOT his friend and eventually get eaten or smushed.
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No kidding. Talk about anthropomorphizing. That thing is in full-on freeze mode and went into flight mode every time the cat was still.
Either the wall or the cat’s stomach.
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Moths too. Saw two of my cats doing that with one of them yesterday.
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Enjoy all the mouse poo dust sucked up into the dryer drum and all over the clothes.
At least it wasn’t a live cicada. Our first family cat tried to bring one inside as a gift for the family. Another time it was a live mouse.
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Better than these fictional counterparts…
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Uh… cats are often known to toy with their prey before eating it.
The mouse’s behavior was odd; ‘flight mode’ seemed very delayed.
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From my layperson understanding it does seem like the mouse has toxoplasmosis since it’s not normal behavior. It’s not impossible that a mouse just wasn’t feeling threatened by the cat but seems highly unlikely.
Another possible explanation might be that the mouse had been previously exhausted by the cat. I had seen one of my parents’ house cats with a mouse in the backyard, by the time i had noticed the poor thing it had been thoroughly exhausted and had given up on running away. I saved it by getting the cat back indoors, much to the cat’s dismay.
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