Cats bringing in Mice + Birds HELP!!

Deep_In_Debt

My cats bring in all sorts and they are not even that young. I'm dreading the next month or so...had a couple of baby blackbirds hiding behind my bedside cabinet last year...chirruping away. Talk about the morning chorus!

They brought in a frog, which either found solace in my handbag or was put in there and I didn't notice until i got to my desk at work, opened my bag and the frog shot across several desks, causing complete hysteria in the office! I managed to catch it and take it outside! Makes a change from the various parts of frogs I used to find.

I live very close to a large pond so frogs, newts and various reptile like things are not unusal!

This year so far have had nothing, apart from one of my cats trying to bring a live mouse in through the cat flap. It was my birthday that day so I wonder if she was bringing me a birthday pressie!

ellay864

My cat started with leaves, moved onto earthworms then progressed to mice and birds, which she still brings in now, sometimes dead, sometimes alive. When we put our new kitchen in we found the mouse nest under cupboards, we once spent a fun evening evicting a mouse from inside the lining of some curtains. Two weeks ago she managed to bring a dead pigeon in...I still have no idea how it fitted through the cat flap cos it was HUGE!!
My old cat also was a hunter but her best trophy was when she appeared at our back door dragging a half roast chicken...we never did find out which of our neighbours went hungry :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Deep_In_Debt

One of my previous cats brought in a live magpie. We managed to catch it...don't know how. It was scary.

Same cats brought in live baby grass snakes, worms and any thing else slimey! Still get various slimey things brought in from the pond along with bits of furry and feathery things!

For middle aged girls, I guess the pond maybe more fun as things around there clearly don't move as quickly as furries or featheries!

klee1505

snakes??? oh no not good. this morning they tried to bring it a live bird but it was so big it couldnt get through the cap flap and the bird managed to get away thank god!!! they have only being going out for about a month so they are progressing fast! lol.
last friday after the bin men came our boy cat brought in a mouldy banna and just left it next to the cat flap?? (lol)

*onlyme*

We have 3 cats and we tried all sorts and failed... I have now got to the stage where I have removed their collars after 1 of them killed some koi carp in someones pond...and his collar got caught on the grill...but he came home without collar. I only knew when I had a call from the person with the pond.

I was asked if he was a black and white cat without a tail ....which he is...and that's the problem, he is so recognisable.

He has brought home fish, someone's budgie, loads of different birds including a seagull and crow, and non animal like things like TGI Friday napkins, pieces of puzzle, screwdriver and a barbie doll.

We regularly have frogs in the house (one of the other cats has something for those, but she doesn't kill them), slowworms etc

Worst one was one early morning when I thought I was stroking the cat, half asleep, and got to his ears...to realise something was not right... it was a freshly killed rabbit that was dumped on our bed....

klee1505

*onlyme* wrote: »

We have 3 cats and we tried all sorts and failed... I have now got to the stage where I have removed their collars after 1 of them killed some koi carp in someones pond...and his collar got caught on the grill...but he came home without collar. I only knew when I had a call from the person with the pond.

I was asked if he was a black and white cat without a tail ....which he is...and that's the problem, he is so recognisable.

He has brought home fish, someone's budgie, loads of different birds including a seagull and crow, and non animal like things like TGI Friday napkins, pieces of puzzle, screwdriver and a barbie doll.

We regularly have frogs in the house (one of the other cats has something for those, but she doesn't kill them), slowworms etc

Worst one was one early morning when I thought I was stroking the cat, half asleep, and got to his ears...to realise something was not right... it was a freshly killed rabbit that was dumped on our bed....

:eek::eek: oh my!! and i thought i had it bad!!

calmspirit

oh my $£" !!!

I thought mine were bad.......funniest was a fish, a massive carp? which was still alive ....only one pond in the village so i knew where that was from! Once had a big rabbit cornered by my 2 cats in the garden.....must have used team work to get that one home!

It's just something you will have to live with........its a sign that they love you ....apparently!!!

sorry not much help but highly amused by thread!

madmittens

elay864, do we own the same cats?!

All of mine have progressed up the chain, so to speak - worms, then frogs, baby birds, adult birds and mice. Think their records are three frogs in a day, five birds over two days, three mice in a day... but I may have lost count along the way. My first cat managed to drag a dead pigeon through a small open window some five feet off the ground :-o

Best I saw - whilst driving through a local village early in the morning last year, a cat attacked a muntjac

crackerberry

Mine started with leaves, then birds, a couple of pigeons, a small rat...till finally her victim of choice seemed to be just mice.
I don't have a cat-flap - I don't dare. Similarly when she's out windows are never open enough for her to get in through. Its a pain having to keep letting her in and out (especially when she's having a day when she wants to be in and out like a yo-yo) but I'd rather that than have yet another furry "gift" running round the living room for hours till I finally manage to catch it.
She's not so bad now she's lacking a few teeth but at her peak I'd often wake up to find upto a dozen mutilated corpses on my patio.

Genuisscuffy

Oh gosh this thread has come at just the right time - my kitten has just started going out and has so far brought me feathers, twigs, a worm (still alive) and this morning caught her first bird (unfortunately dead by the time we got there) so I guess I've got it all to come - I knew she would be quick as shes very agile and sits on the patio and trys to get the sparrows on top of the house (high hopes!!!) only worry is that when she wants to play she brings her toys up on to my bed!!!