how do you get a cat to catch mice?

You do not keep a cat. It adopts you. If you are lucky, it will rid you of vermin.

People who used to have cats did not feed them, they just offered them affection and warmth.

You run the risk of them killing birds and other small mammals you may want to keep but you will also get rid of vermin. The trick is not to give them food. If you already feed your cat then you have taught it not to seek out it's own food.

Set traps or lay out poison. That may mean your cat will eat it and die so take care.

A young cat will catch mice for fun. An older, well fed cat, will not.

Not feeding your cat is unfair. Have you been playing chase and catch games with your cat? A feather on the end of a piece of string pulled around will encourage it to 'hunt'. My cat (as far as I'm aware) has caught one mouse on a glue trap (already dead!), eaten one, left one for me and I have saved about 5. This is over a period of about a year, so not enough to keep her tummy full. Some cats just aren't good hunters.

Don't feed it any cat food. When it gets hungry enough, believe me, it will catch mice.

convinced, persian cats can capture mice. My guy did, yet i think of he enjoyed fidgeting with it and theory if he enable the mouse bypass, it could enable him proceed to smack it in the top. It seems that mice do no longer savour that activity and he ran away. yet Ed caught him back, so we had to take the mouse outdoors ourselves. yet i think it is stable he did no longer eat it - in case the mouse carried a illness.