1st Live catch_ what do you do?

smithyjules

Have had a selection of cats over a few years and so a selection of unmentionable gifts too.My first experience of such gifts was getting up in the night for a drink and something crunched under my sock-less foot.turned on the light and ta-dah a naked (and squashed) baby bird.There was much sobbing and wretching on my part!

Another little darling brought me a slimy frog who sat so still on the floor i thought it must be dead.After much patting on the head from Morris' paw and still no movement my hubby got the dustpan to scoop it up. eh voila a huge leap across the living room and a deathly scream from me!

The same cat absolutely adores pine cones and leaves and often "catches" them and brings them in all proud.I can cope with that!

A duckling was the worst though.we live miles from any rivers, lakes etc and i'll never know how this small kitten dragged it home still alive and sitting inside on my doormat.

Blinkin cats!give you plenty to talk about though!

GracieP

My dogs caught a mouse in our kitchen last week. They're gun dogs so they have soft mouths and no real ragging instinct (except for some reason when they find a fox corpse). The poor thing would manage to jump out of one dogs mouth to be snatched up by the other. Eventually when it was dead Toby had it in his mouth and kept trying to eat it.

When I got it off him I gave both dogs a biscuit as, while I do feel bad for the mouse, I'm glad I don't have a mouse in the house.:o

geri1965_2

UKTigerlily wrote: »

The best one we had was a bat, fortunately unharmed, the Cat dragged it in then let it go & it was flying round our living room so I turned the light out, opened the window (Which was one of those huge old fashioned ones) & waited for it to fly out which it did.

One of mine bought a bat in once - it was about 4 in the morning and I have never heard noises like that before, I had no idea what it was until I turned on the light and put my specs on. I was freaking right out as I have a phobia about flying things. I had to get a friend to come over the next day and take it away (it had attached itself to the top of the curtains and I was too scared to touch it - I couldn't even look at it or stay in the room!)

mumoftwins

Oh no, what have I done

Having not had a cat for many years, and therefore conveniently 'forgetting' the presents they used to bring me, I recently got a kitten who I was told was female but turns out he is male! He is 5 months old and due to be neutered soon, he hasn't been outside yet but I can see that he is desperate to get out there, and I just know that he will be the type to bring me 'presents' :eek:

smithyjules

mumoftwins-very best of luck!!!our latest addition is now ready to go out...ie i can't deal with him shredding anymore loo rolls and leaving it all over the house!!!mind you i'm not sure if thats the lesser of the two evils after reading this thread!

foxyd3vil12

You have got more to come.

I used 2 have a big mountain behind my house before i moved and my two cats would bring me all sorts of pressies! i found numerous dead mice and voles throughout the house but the worst was still to come when they decided to bring lizards and gras snakes into my house. Cleaning my house one day and moved the couch to find one great big grass snake under there was not one of the higlights of my life! since ive moved tho, i havent had any presents from either cat thank goodness!

pukkamum

My cat is a fantastic hunter she is twelve years old and still brings home tons of 'gifts'.
My neighbour came round with a can of posh cat food for her the other week as he saw her catch the huge rat that had been worrying his rabbits for weeks. He said it was amazing to watch as she stalked it for ages before making her move he said she was just like a tiger!!! That will be the rat she brought to me whilst i was enjoying my early morning cuppa on the back doorstep it was almost as big as her!!!!
I had another cat (male) who was hopeless. The only thing i saw him with was a huge pigeon that he had clearly found injured, he came walking down the street with it in his mouth but with an abosolute look of 'what do i do now' on his face lol, he looked quite relieved when i took it off him!!

Luckily our cat makes a very distinctive noise whn she has caught something so we know to shut all doors and windows.

The worst time was when i had just had ds, DH and i had just got up after a bad night with the baby and didn't have a chance to go into the kitchen before the health visitor came. She went into the kitchen to wash her hands and her scream alerted me to the major blood bath of feathers and gore and half eaten bird corpse on the floor!!!

pukkamum

Oh heres another tale my mum's cat once caught a baby bird and brought it home unfortunately the parents of said baby bird were in hot persuit dive bombing him as he ran in the house.
We ended up chasing the parents round the room with fishing nets!!!

frivolous_fay

I spoke too soon!
We found our first frog this morning... dead and still covered in pondweed, although, helpfully, put in a box that we were about to throw out anyway... I don't even know anyone with a pond! Someone probably liked that frog being in their pond

Never mind the two worms :rolleyes: I hate it when it rains!

c6h4m1

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One of our cats goes hunting round the fields near us and is often seen being chased by blackbirds, crows and magpies to get her away from the nests. She keeps going back to see if she can sneak up on them though. Like the birds are never going to spot a large cat walking across the field!

The rest of ours go hunting in the woods behind our house so we get a lot of mice and voles brought in. One cat puts them in the food dish which is handy, if I don't get to him with the mouse box first Needless to say it is always me, not DP, who gets the job of removing the presents, dead or alive :mad: