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Cat bringing home dead things

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  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    Mum's old cat used to regularly leave chickens, neatly dead but otherwise undamaged. One day he never came back (understandably). The worst one is bats as once they are grounded it takes a lot of effort to get them flying again and they just look so ungainly flopping around the floor.
    Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits
  • smithyjules
    smithyjules Posts: 497 Forumite
    We've had a few 5 cats at one time or another.Our first Ben used to take my DH dirty socks out of the cat flap and leave them on the path, never clean ones or mine! Morris used go through phases, leaves, frogs, worms, voles, and by far the best was pinecones...he just loved those!When we moved we found dozens of pinecones under/behind everything with a gap underneath.Puddin our bengal/siamese was heard howling and yowling early one morning.He was sitting proud as punch next to a hare (we live in a villiage near a forest and lots of fields). Now Pudding is a big Tomcat and if you imagine him laying at full stretch...the hare was longer than him...I couldn't believe it!

    I do love my boys though!(and Tom who is a a girl in disguise as a boy :o)
  • begley
    begley Posts: 294 Forumite
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    TomsMom wrote: »
    Oh.......... dear............. not good :(.

    It was AWFUL. Kiddo was so upset. The cat looked chuffed to bits with herself though!
  • geri1965_2
    geri1965_2 Posts: 8,736 Forumite
    Our cat killed and ate our budgie when I was a kid. I would never have cats and birds or small furry pets now.

    Since we got Jimmy he has killed 3 mice and one robin. OH was very upset about the robin as they are his favourite birds.

    Spook (no longer with us) once bought in a baby magpie. My then husband, who is a Londoner, rang me up in a panic about a "black and white pigeon" in the house!
  • *onlyme*
    *onlyme* Posts: 947 Forumite
    This thread has made me feel less alone with receiving all sorts of presents...

    Our cat now doesn't have a collar anymore as he left it behind in someone's garden during the process of killing several koi carp in someone's pond...he did bring me one of the fish home and it was funny at the time but then when I got a phonecall of a very upset man, the fun soon went...

    We also have had a parrot brought home by our dear cat, screw drivers, pieces of puzzle, napkins, cuddly toys, a barbie doll, seagull, wood pigeons, small birds, live rats, mice, slow worms and probably worst of all a dead rabbit on our bed (I was half asleep thinking I was stroking the cat but realised it wasn't him when I got to the ears)
  • Pollycat
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    *onlyme* wrote: »
    This thread has made me feel less alone with receiving all sorts of presents...

    Our cat now doesn't have a collar anymore as he left it behind in someone's garden during the process of killing several koi carp in someone's pond...he did bring me one of the fish home and it was funny at the time but then when I got a phonecall of a very upset man, the fun soon went...

    We also have had a parrot brought home by our dear cat, screw drivers, pieces of puzzle, napkins, cuddly toys, a barbie doll, seagull, wood pigeons, small birds, live rats, mice, slow worms and probably worst of all a dead rabbit on our bed (I was half asleep thinking I was stroking the cat but realised it wasn't him when I got to the ears)

    :eek::eek: but :rotfl: PMSL at the images this brought to me.
  • adouglasmhor
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    I've never put collars on my cats (all have been indoor/outdoor cats) as I've always worried about them getting caught up on something and being strangled.

    All the cats I've had over the years (6 over 33 years but I had 4 at the same time once) have been hunters.

    It's what they do.

    My old boy used to spread his presents around to his favourite neighbours as well as bringing them home to me.

    My current one (coming up to 11 years of age and creaky with arthritis) has been a phenomenal hunter.
    He was a farm kitten and still retains feral tendencies.

    We have 2 allotments close by and fields for miles around.

    He's caught lots of mice, voles and rats in his time as well as a few birds.
    On a bad day (for the wildlife) he's brought 5 voles home.

    He brings them home (they're always dead) and after yowling at the back door to let me know he's got something, he eats them.
    Pretty much all of them - claws, teeth, fur - apart from a small internal organ that we think maybe the bile duct or gall bladder.
    He doesn't play with them at all.
    We once saw him dragging a dead rat up the road by the scruff of the neck, dragging it along like a lion would carry an antelope.

    I don't like to think my cats are killing other creatures but I believe it's in their nature.

    You may just have to put up with it.

    We used to see that at the cat shelter with voles, just the gall bladder left behind. Wierd.
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  • pigpen
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    We've had live bats flying round the house! The baby (8 months) found a mouse face.. yes just the face.. in the front room on tuesday, half mice are usual, nibbled birds, a couple of squirrels, before we moved one raided the neighbours pigeon loft and dragged 2 of the huge disgusting things through the cat flap and shredded them, worms, slugs, HUGE spiders, butterflies, frogs, rats, a grass snake, bees, fleas! and twigs.. why the twigs we aren't sure! lol

    It is quite normal. Collars made no difference at all and keeping them in made it twice as bad when they did escape..

    One now brings her friends home for dinner.. ggggrrrr
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  • catieeb06
    catieeb06 Posts: 576 Forumite
    24 hours without anything dead landing on the doorstep!!

    PHEW!
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    You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it.
    This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser code of conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.
  • mum2twinsx2
    mum2twinsx2 Posts: 380 Forumite
    I woke up to my cat with a dead budgie this morning in the kitchen. Lucky she doesn't eat them just kills, and plays with them. She scooted off out with it again, my neighbour said she dumped it under there washing line.
    mum to; Two Boys (Non id twins)
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