Cat bringing home dead things

kazwookie

Yep dead mouse in the bedroom the other week!! OH sent it to the wheelie bin!

catieeb06

We don't have a cat flap so if she's out then she's out and if she's in then she's in. We also keep our bedroom door shut or she finds a tiny bit of skin at 4am and dogs her claws in. Not appreciated! So far no animals in the bedroom!! Phew.

david39

My daughter has an ex-feral tabby that brings assorted dead-or-alive presents home. One day, she came home from work to find some feathers in the lounge. She assumed the cat had brought a bird home and eaten it.

She went to work the next day and, when she got home and was walking up the front garden path, she saw a fully grown magpie inside the lounge window.

When she got into the house, the bird had done damage to almost every room - obviously trying to get out and/or escape from the cat. It took her ages to catch it, during which the damage toll increased even further.

She lives opposite a field with cows in it and we've suggested she watch out for one of those in the living room shortly.

begley

Our little cat is OBSESSED with my OH, and she gets presents! The worst night ever was when Kiddo's hamster had escaped............Julian was found, dead, laid lovingly on my OH's side of the bed! We've had a live starling in the lounge too, and one day she was wandering around with a very peculiar expression - OH came into the room and puss opened her mouth and a (bedraggled) butterfly half flew, half dropped out. Oh, and we had a bird's egg, undamaged and still warm once. She always looks so chuffed with herself - we say thank you through very gritted teeth!

TomsMom

begley wrote: »

Our little cat is OBSESSED with my OH, and she gets presents! The worst night ever was when Kiddo's hamster had escaped............Julian was found, dead, laid lovingly on my OH's side of the bed! We've had a live starling in the lounge too, and one day she was wandering around with a very peculiar expression - OH came into the room and puss opened her mouth and a (bedraggled) butterfly half flew, half dropped out. Oh, and we had a bird's egg, undamaged and still warm once. She always looks so chuffed with herself - we say thank you through very gritted teeth!

Oh.......... dear............. not good .

missmontana

lol, just as I am reading this thread, I hear a muffled Miaow.... and my darling Kiwi spits me out a moth!

KiKi

One of my two girls chirrups excitedly at birds and seagulls. And she gets as close as possible, but as soon as they move she runs back into the house - goodness knows what she's scared of when it comes to sparrows.

My other girl - bigger and lazier, it has to be said - has stopped reacting. Yesterday she was lying on the sofa, eyes open, but completely flat out, tummy in the air. Out of the patio doors she caught side of a seagull on the roof. She closed her eyes and chirruped, but didn't even move a paw, and promptly fell asleep.

I think they've both come to understand that they are useless hunters, which I am very pleased about as I'm both vegetarian and an animal lover. (I even capture mozzies that are in my house and put them outside - I can't kill anything!)

KiKi

caledonian_princess

My old lady used to bring us a bunny every morning in the Spring, we'd find the ears and body properly arranged the head having been neatly eaten. Amongst many little corpses she also left a dead pigeon under the bed, a dead rat behind the front door, a dead robin on Christmas morning (we laughed about that) and a live blue tit in the kitchen. My new cat has brought me one dead mouse today that's the first one ever - I don't think he's much of a hunter, either that or he eats them outside.

mutter

At least you know where you are with dead things.
One of mine thinks he's a humane hunter because he brings stuff in alive and kicking.
It's no fun chasing a live frog round the bedroom at 3am.

The worst I ever had was when i heard a terrible thudding at the back door to find Beetle - holding an enormous collar dove by the throat, it's wings spread out wide - trying to bring it in the cat flap.

It's the real downside of having cats, it's the one bit of their character that I could truly do without, but there's nothing to be done about it.
It's in them, and it will be for thousands of years to come.

Pollycat

mutter wrote: »

It's the real downside of having cats, it's the one bit of their character that I could truly do without, but there's nothing to be done about it.
It's in them, and it will be for thousands of years to come.

Ain't that just the truth!