the “witte kat” (white cat) we had only ever caught one mouse, I remember sending my sister a text when he did and this was in the 90s when sending text messages was a new thing. He may have caught a bird once and my mum shut him out in the cold for 2 hours (he was let back in later) and he stopped bothering to catch anything.
We had two but one disappeared, and the witte kat was bullied by a half siamese. I had got into the habit of watching “big cat diary” whilst stoned, and decided to caterwaul the bully away from our garden. This actually worked, and then I started meowing with my cat as a cross species male bonding exercise. He did try to show me where those mice were but I couldn’t get in the corner at the nest so the mice got away. to be fair he did alert me when my radio scanner (tuned to Police frequencies) activated and also when XA97 (a Police Helicopter) was overhead, he would sit on the wheeled bin and look up but only for this particular aircraft (we were in the flightpath to RAF Benson and Heathrow). I did not train the cat to do this, so it was quite impressive….
