gerardj
Senior Cook
yeh we've got mice now.My mother hated cats. Hated, hated, hated, with a real passion. Then my parents had mice in their house, and my father put his foot down: we need a cat, we're getting a cat. My mother was profoundly unhappy, but she gave in and they got a cat. Mice disappeared immediately.
Less than a month later my mother and that cat were inseparable. After that cat passed on she got another one.
people with cats in the middle ages were often spared the bubonic plague, for that reason.