Sentences with phrase «catch mice in»

However, it would be a supplement to a meat - and - tissue diet, since the cats would catch mice in the barn.

My daughter catches mice in non-injurious traps and then takes them out and sets them free.

Her dog caught a mouse in my greenhouse and dropped it near her feet.

Dear Abby: My dad thought it was «fun time» when he caught mice in a trap.

Whether it's an indoor cat that lives on the 30th floor of a major United States city, or a barn cat that spends most of the time in a hay loft or catching mice in a barn, many such cats get very little veterinary attention.

Not exact matches

We've gotten caught up in the details — is it «biblical» for a woman to wear a stained Mickey Mouse T - shirt?

Likewise when Deng Xiaoping in China said «It doesn't matter what colour the cat is as long as it catches mice» he has proved himself wrong.

«We have got big mouse infestation in Downing Street and Larry has caught some mice.

Revealing the kills, Prime Minister David Cameron said that the tabby tom hasn't got it quite right yet — a criticism some may be levelling at Mr Cameron's coalition government — as he's been catching mice instead of the more muscular rats he was brought in to deal with.

A recent study in mice found just a single session of exercise before catching flu reduced disease severity, although regular exercise beforehand worked even better.

A drug used to stop immune cells from gobbling up transplanted organs and bone marrow has been caught boosting the immune response to a virus in mice and monkeys.

In one study, participants played a game where they had to either be a car avoiding collisions with trucks or a mouse avoiding being caught by a cat.

She suggests that such a change in the behaviour of the sick mouse may protect relatives in the same group from catching the disease, which could be beneficial from an evolutionary perspective.

Geneticist Jiří Forejt of the Czech Academy of Sciences» Institute of Molecular Genetics in Prague wasn't looking for it when he caught wild mice and bred them with lab mice to study diversity of immune system genes.

For example, foxes are more successful at catching mice when they pounce on them in a north - east direction.

In 2007, he and Webster caught live ticks and allowed them to feed on mice in the laIn 2007, he and Webster caught live ticks and allowed them to feed on mice in the lain the lab.

Although the effect of sleep deprivation was stark in this study, Rolls and her colleagues found that it could be reversed by letting the drowsy mice catch up on their ZZZs.

Guessing that worm burgers would never catch on, Jing Kang and colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston inserted the worm gene for an enzyme that turns omega - 6 fatty acids into omega - 3's in mice.

Our feline friends are only interested in one thing: meat (except for saving up the energy to catch it by napping, or a round of restorative petting) This is not just because inside every domestic tabby lurks a killer just waiting to catch a bird or torture a mouse, it is also because cats lack the ability to taste sweetness, unlike every other mammal examined to date.

Their content is optimized for genetic mapping in the Collaborative Cross and Diveristy Outbred populations; for discriminating haplotypes from common laboratory strains and substrains; and for evaluating the ancestry of wild - caught mice.

In the new tests, mice didn't catch the urge to scratch if they had no genes to make this GRP or to make the molecule that detects it.

Paranoia (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and violence) Espionage thriller about a rising corporate superstar (Liam Hemsworth) who finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly game of cat - and - mouse being played by a couple of rival billionaire CEOs (Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford).

But in this deadly game of cat and mouse, the stakes are raised with each gruesome slaying as the pair races to catch a madman before he brings every one of Poe's shocking stories to chilling life... and death.

Caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with corrupt CIA agent Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett, Robin Hood), the sixteen year old flees from country to country in the ultimate battle of wits.

Ostensibly this is a film built around his character, Mike Banning — he finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat - and - mouse while trying to find and rescue President Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and avoid being gunned down like virtually every other member of the White House and the Secret Service.

Getting there was a bumpy ride: Development for the final Toy Story film became caught up in the intricacies of the animation studio's production deal with Disney, and at one point the Mouse House was planning to make the second sequel without Pixar's involvement.

He is the station's toy maker (Ben Kingsley), and when he catches Hugo in the act of trying to steal a toy mouse for the gears within it, the man takes the boy's notebook, which details the work his father had done and he continues to do on the mechanical man.

Rockwell stars as John Moon, a man caught in a tense cat - and - mouse chase after stealing money from a woman he accidentally shot while hunting in rural West Virginia.

Not even her three best friends know of the power she could wield, given the chance.So, when she's sent back to her homeland to steal an ancient samurai sword, she jumps at the chance to secure her freedom, only to get caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the most dangerous crime syndicate in Japan.Can Akiko escape with her life and...

She was looking for «the best and biggest cats, capable of catching mice» to be sent to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to protect the treasures contained within from rats.

Not even her three best friends know of the power she could wield, given the chance.So, when she's sent back to her homeland to steal an ancient samurai sword, she jumps at the chance to secure her freedom, only to get caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the most dangerous crime syndicate in Japan.Can Akiko escape with her life and her soul, or is true freedom as elusive as the Aether she was born from?

Originally used for catching rats and mice in textile mills, Yorkies are energetic and inquisitive.

When cats catch mice at night, their whiskers help guide them as they subdue their prey and move in to deliver the killing neck bite.

Problem: Cats stalk, leap, grab, chase, run, and ambush in the name of fun and catching mice.

«During years in the field,» wrote Leyhausen, «I have observed countless times how cats have caught a mouse or a rat and just as often how they have stalked a bird.

In the early days, The Yorkshire Terrier was tasked to catch rats and mice around mills.

I hate to think of Fidget never getting to chase a butterfly or a bug (though there is the occasional fly in the house that gives him lots of joy) or to catch a «real» mouse rather than the toy mice he practices hunting with.

(There is nothing sadder than a cat caught in a mouse trap.)

A cat in the wild would live off of a raw diet - they would catch mice, rabbits, etc..

Your kitty will still feel the need to go out and hunt birds, mice, frogs, in fact anything that is small enough to catch.

Only in the cat's situation it is usually because they have just caught a nice tasty little mouse and didn't have the manners to cut it up nice and pretty.

If mouse traps are used, it is vital that they be turned upside - down so that the cat can not possibly catch a foot in the trap.

There are cupboards to hide in, too, although obviously this leaves you little room for escape if the killer catches a glimpse of you ducking into one.It's essentially cat and mouse; the killer is trying to preempt your movements to cut you off, and you're scampering like the terrified little mouse you are.

In Mighty Mouse trying to Catch the Road Runner, primary splashes are layered over a more linear backdrop to recall a marriage of Warhol's camouflage canvases with Lichtenstein's contained comic panels.

Here we can still witness this wonderful symbiotic relationship between human and feline, and the very reason for it harks back to why we domesticated cats in the first place, centuries ago: mice - catching and companionship.

She is caught in her roles like a mouse in an endless maze, going from one to the other dutifully, but with little understanding.

Like a circus ringmaster, McCarthy constructs exhibitions in which celebrities impersonators interpret deranged parodies of movies, or in which Mickey Mouse and Snow White are caught in bestial acts of regression.

Does this mean that the poor bats and mice have declined in numbers because they got caught in a rainstorm they weren't «expecting»?

In the game, participants played virtual «catch» using a mouse to select other players to «throw» the ball to.

In the next few weeks it'd caught over twenty mice in totaIn the next few weeks it'd caught over twenty mice in totain total.