oddest / worst things brought home by your cat

Owain_Moneysaver

artbaron wrote: »

A fillet steak. Toast.

Mir! wrote: »

a fried egg, still warm, with a nicely runny yolk.

chocdonuty wrote: »

chicken legs (cooked) and other human food items, steak with his paw that was cooking on next doors bbq though :eek:

Very moneysaving, all these cats! Almost pay for themselves.

suejb2

I was baby sitting once when an almighty "cafuffle" from the kitchen scared the living daylights out of me. Cautiously I opened the living room door to be met by "Boss" holding a rabbit;live and kicking! "Boss" released the rabbit and went on his way,the rabbit ,however,just sat there.

Lilyjade

Ours only have supervised access to the garden, although they have a pen they can go in whenever they like. So we don't get too much apart from sticks, leaves, frogs and toads. Our youngest is great at catching flys bringing them in alive to release and recatch. Once they stop flying she leaves them crawling round the house.

Youngest also likes to empty hubby's chest of draws and deposit his boxers around the house.

One of our other cats did manage to catch a pigeon on the top of the pen, was so funny to see him hanging off the top of the pen with paw out of the net holding onto the pigeon, luckily pigeon was able to flap enough to loosen his grip and flew off unhurt.

tesuhoha

This reminds me of a dog we used to have years ago when I was a teenager. He was a Labrador and used to trot off for a walk in the woods behind the house. One day I was sitting in the garden in a deckchair and the dog came through the back garden gate. He was carrying a large dead rabbit and he dropped it into my lap. I screamed and screamed.

aileth

A live magpie, which was exactly the same size as the cat.

He was licking and nuzzling against it, which from a distance as I came down the stairs looked like he was eating it. Ran towards him, picked him up to get him away from the bird, which then stopped playing dead and started squawking and going berzerk.

I think I ruined a beautiful relationship there.

lisawood78

Screaming frogs, pigeons, pairs of socks (!!) blackbirds, the odd toad or 2, clumps of the dogs fur......

tea_lover

danih wrote: »

The worst ever was a dead crow

I read that as cow :rotfl:.

BucksLady

Our cat seems to have a fettish for frogs and I've lost count of the number we've found hopping around our house. He never kills them - think he enjoys watching us running around trying to catch them lol

The strangest thing he has brought home is a slice of fruit cake. I often wonder where that came from

jojo1974

I haven't read through the whole thread yet so I'm sure I'm probably not alone with our cats latest 'present,'

Might be best to fill you in so you have more context.

We recently moved to Rural Wales from a southern Town. Before the move our Ginger Tom, had no interest in catching anything. All he did was eat, sleep and fight.

Within days of moving here he started bringing home a full array of live animals, which he would pass over to our German Shepherd, for her amusement. We said that he was paying her protection money.

We decided a bell was needed once this was becoming a daily event but that seems to have made no difference and we have had voles, mice, magpies and jackdaws left as gifts.

However, it appears that Charlie has moved up a gear now. I was sat in the living room two evenings ago when I heard a bit of a ruckus in the back garden.

It was dark and we haven't got round to fitting any external lights yet. I reluctantly ventured out, together with my torch, and was confronted with a very pleased Charlie, with what appeared at first glance to be a very large live rat in his mouth.

Of course I'm used to live guests but it still made me scream and rush in to get my fearless husband.

'You will never believe what that ginger b**tard has brought home now' I raged at him.

After explaining my husband decided to go out and put the animal out of it's misery. However as he opened the door the cat ran in and left it's gift on the kitchen floor.

To my complete amazement it wasn't a rat but a Guinea Pig. Still alive and apparently unharmed by it's ordeal, although a little shaken of course.

I picked the little fella up and put him in a box.

Having a brief conversation with my husband along the lines of

Husband 'I didn't know Wales had wild Guinea Pigs?'
Me 'I don't think it has, it must be a pet'
husband 'Of course it's not a pet, pets are kept in cages and although I know Charlie's clever he can't undo cages'

Being new to the area I decided to pop to the neighbour and ask if they knew of anyone who kept GPs in the area. Apparently the lady three doors down did.

I knocked in her door and explained that I thought my cat had stolen her GP. She quickly checked and confirmed the hutch was indeed open.

I explained the GP was unharmed but I would happily pay for any vet bill to get it checked out, which she happily agreed to.

Anyway, the next morning the lady came to my door and said that the GP had died in the night. I felt awful but did say her children should have been more careful and made sure the door was shut properly.

Her response was, 'oh it wasn't the children it was the cat. We caught him again this morning opening the wooden latch and trying to make off with the rabbit!'

Luckily the lady was very nice about the whole situation and my offer to replace the GP was politely refused as she confessed she couldn't stand GPs and cleaning the hutch had been extremely stressful for her.

So what do I do about Charlie? I'm sure one day soon I'm going to wake up to a live sheep in the kitchen.

lindens

This thread is so funny!
We had a live bat brought in last week which was our most unusual present - but it pales into insignificence compared to some of these stories!!