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Ella, my young one (-1 year) caught a mouse a few days ago. As far as I am aware, that was her first kill larger than a bug. We've been living near our land up north during the spring, summer and fall for the past few years and, last year, we spent the winter up north to, so our house has been empty for a while. Subsequently, it seems that a mouse decided that it might be save to come on in.
There is a small hole in one wall, along a heater pipe leading from the main part of the house to the library, which also serves as an entryway, as it is usually unheated. Apparently that's where the mouse came in.
I walked in the room, I guess, just as she saw it, because I saw her scramble up against the wall by the heater pipe. I thought she was batting a toy around, then I saw that it was a mouse. She killed it almost instantly.
Meanwhile, our two older ones, who are twin (24 y/o) sisters, have never hunted. In another place we lived, Cutie glanced over at a mouse that had come in the house once, and then turned away, uninterested. Her sister, Lydia, caught a bird outdoors once, but then decided that catch-and-release was the way to go. She covered the bird with both her paws, held it there for a moment, then released it and watched it fly away.
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