re: Who else is at war with mice right now?

When I was a kid, we heard some scampering in the attic early one winter morning. My mom was pretty upset that there was a mouse or rat up there.

Minutes later, my brother and I walked outside, and sitting on our porch was the biggest tom cat I ever saw. Huge, muscle bound Brock Lesnar of a cat. We had never set eyes on him before and he had no collar, but was very bold and friendly. He stuck around our house that day, so we gave him a little to eat and drink.

That evening, my brother said "Let's put him in the attic. He'll take out whatever is up there." So we put him up there that night.

Next morning, we let him out of the attic. He was happy as a clam. We let him out in the yard. He stuck around while we were outside, but later that day, he was gone.

After that night, we heard no more scampering in the attic, we found a few corpses, but that cat never returned. Maybe the cat was actually like a shoemaker elf or something.