Cats bringing in Mice + Birds HELP!!

klee1505

i didnt even know what one of them was i had to google it!! my god!!! they are huuuugggeee

Nessynoo

Put a bell on their collars. That should hopefully give the birds/mice/rats/squirrels etc a chance. It won't stop them bringing in already dead animals.

Caffca

You'd be surprised how many cats can still hunt and successfully catch prey even with bells on their collar.

One of mine brought his first mouse home about 2 years ago, trotted into the living room, dropped something on the rug and looked at us very pleased with himself. He was absolutely mortified when his "pet mouse" (not a mark on it), scurried off and hid behind the fire!

Needless to say, cats were evicted from living room until mouse agreed to go into a humane trap so we could put him back where he belonged. Would love to say he went on to live a long and fruitful life after that but as the hunter got into her stride shortly after and was bringing at least one (dead) mouse home a day for about a month, I fear all mouse got was a stay of execution.

ETA: Sorry OP, this is just one of those things that as a cat owner you'll have to learn to live with - either your cat is a hunter or it isn't and there's not a darn thing you can do about it. Of my 3 - one is a ferocious and avid hunter, another (see above) has one or two failed attempts a year and the third doesn't hunt at all - can just about see him squirm at the thought of doing something as gross as actually dealing with live food!

geri1965_2

Mine bought in a baby bat once - still alive. That really freaked me out! Luckily it escaped from her mouth and flew up to the top of the curtains and stayed there all night, so we released it the next day.

HRV

When I was a teenager our 3 cats bought in 2 moles! We saw one in the middle of the living room floor (alive)- managed to catch it and put it in a box for my mum to release on the way to work. About 5 mins later another appeared! Managed to catch that too- so she had 2 moles to release!!!

Also one killed a kingfisher once :-( (it was so beautiful) and frogs

When the youngest was a kitten he used to bring in worms- hanging out either side of his mouth- I think he felt left out that he couldn;t catch anything better!:rotfl:

beckham100

We went through a stage where our cat brought in something every night birds and mice, but it got to the point she was bringing one in dropping it alive or half eaten then going and fetching another one some nights we had 3 or 4 brought in.
She has a cat flap in the kitchen so we locked her in the kitchen for a night which she was not happy about as normally has the run of the house and since then she has stopped bringing them in the house and now leaves them on the patio for us.
I have been told female cats are worse than male cats at being hunters (killers).

kazwookie

Mine brings me mice and boy is so proud of himself......afraid you will just have to get use to it................

Last time was last week, and he played paddy paws with it at 3am in the bedroom, to start with I wondered what the hell was going on. Being the meenie I am at 3am I took it off him and put in in the wheelie bin, well it was dead, by the time I get back to bed, he is curled up on it, and asleep!!!

smithyjules

Our first Kitten brought home a tiny baby bird. I found it by treading on it in the dark with a bare foot!

We've had cats obsessed with pine cones, leaves and worms. One brought in a frog and sat there patting it on the head to get it to move. I was convinced it had had a heart attack and so hubby scooped it up with a dustpan and it jumped straight at me...Cue blood curdling scream from me.

My 3 year old informed me that "tom's mouse is hiding behind the fish tank mummy"...It then ran out and into the awaiting 3 cats paths in the hall (i hadn't had a chance to shoo them away) so to at least save my inquisitive daughter from the mouse's untimely exit i had to close the door to hide it from her. Gave it a few mins and then went out there...3 cats looking completely miffed...Daughter then say's "Why is tom's mouse squashed in the door mummy?!"

We've had a cat who used to take hubby's smelly socks (never clean ones) out of the catflap and then come back with some kind of creature but no sock. (stink probably killed the poor creature before the cat did tho).

Most recently our Bengal cross brought home a Hare a bloody huge monster of a hare!!(we live in a rural village god help us).

So in answer to the OP's question I think if we choose to take on these little darlings as pets and choose for them to be outdoor cat's...We take the risk of gifts and other such delights. Although i shall be keeping a close eye on this thread to see if anyone has managed to get one over on their cat!(We found one of our collar's with bells hanging off a tree branch once as if to tell us "not bloody likely!")

Mankysteve

Our cat is semi feral and bring in a few thing but I think if you keep getting taking off the cat it'll get fed and stop bringing them back as much. That what we did.

She not as bad as used to be, but she never get ill and is a bit plump we think this is cos she eats what a cat is meant to eat rather than cat food.

On a side not once had to rip my bedroom carpet up because of two dead bird and their guts spread over my bedroom floor. She left a large Rat on parent bedroom floor short a leg.

MrsE_2

Nessynoo wrote: »

Put a bell on their collars. That should hopefully give the birds/mice/rats/squirrels etc a chance. It won't stop them bringing in already dead animals.

Collars can be dangerous on cats, plus if someone was so inclined it would make them easier to be caught.

George killled a baby squirrel & a baby bird recently:(