We moved into this old house and shortly after move-in my wife had an encounter with a mouse on a trip to the bathroom. We had a cat three days later, and it went to work. We spent a solid three months finding half eaten mice around the house every few days, and by the time we'd been there for a year, the mice were straight up gone.
I feel bad for the mice in a way, but this right here is exactly why 1 or 2 cats were brought on ships for long voyages either merchant ships or army ships because they found their food stores would be ravaged by mice and they would struggle towards the end of their journey to feed everyone on the ship. Bring a cat or two and that problem quickly gets solved in a massive net positive.
Mice and rats in general are way more agile than they look, so before you think how tf did mice get on a ship on the water, they can either swim and climb, or run across the ropes to board the ships.
You’d struggle to find a well managed ship without at least 1 cat.
8
u/RagnarStonefist 16h ago
We moved into this old house and shortly after move-in my wife had an encounter with a mouse on a trip to the bathroom. We had a cat three days later, and it went to work. We spent a solid three months finding half eaten mice around the house every few days, and by the time we'd been there for a year, the mice were straight up gone.