After 3 years of fighting a losing battle against the mice running rampant in our house we are biting the bullet and buying a mouse bomb. It will be small, furry, have four legs and it will purr. Most importantly it will decimate our out of control and unwelcome mouse population.

Hurrah.
Females are better hunters. I have a houseful of useless male cats that only kill birds and leave the bits all over the sidewalk in front of my house and I wish I was kidding but I’m not.
I don’t know much about cats being used for a household functional purpose — but it seems to me that if you feed the cat too much then it will not hunt? Is that true, any of you cat people out there?
Ooops. Picked up a Tom kitten this afternoon. He’s cute but.
Fed cats will kill too Lori. Maybe tying bricks to it’s feet will stop it hunting.