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While you may think your cat catching a few mice may feel like a victory, you're fighting a losing battle. Mice reproduce so quickly that your cat cannot keep up. A female mouse can have a litter of 4 to 12 pups every three weeks....

Most cats won’t immediately hunt out an entire nest of mice. If you have a lot of mice, you might want to invest in some traps in addition to a cat. Avoid poison, since that travels up the food chain and can hurt predator birds and other important and beautiful wildlife....