What does your cat catch!

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My indoor/outdoor cat brings Snakes, Squirrels, Mice, Moles, Voles, Shrews. Places them on the sidewalk. "Headless" But Sometimes she just eats the whole thing.


I have a Feral cat outside that is pretty tame, its not a present orientated animal, but eats canned cat food.


My old shop cat had Headless rats at the back door of the shop every morning!
 
We have 2 indoor out door orange tabby type cats. they like to bring in the occasional bird, squirrel, or baby rabbit and leave them on our front deck. Both were front de clawed and we got them from humane as a pair, they were not siblings but had always been togetherand humane place would only let them both go together. even though they have no front claws they still somehow manage to manage a kill once in a while. Indoor or outdoor every domestic cat is a predators by nature. Bring home a kill sometimes is just how they roll. I guess they like to prove to the owner that they are still good hunters and killing prey makes them happy. Thats my guess and I'm sticking to it.
 
We have a Black blob of fur cat that I rescued the litter of 4 in 2004 and kept just one. It bonded to my wife. It is a useless blob of fur. I have never ever seen a more useless cat.
 
My current cat catches mice, rats if they are around, and birds...mainly sparrows, but blackbirds and thrushes, and sometimes a waxeye, which is native. When we lived rural our cat would leave 3 or 4 rats on the deck every morning, lots of mice. Rabbits, ducklings, birds, and again the only natives were waxeyes.

I have no problems with my cats dealing to vermin - that's why humans and cats have a relationship. That they have learned how to pull strings and push buttons on humans is a bonus to both sides.
 
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Nothing, our two Himalayans are lucky to catch the food dish. Bred for their skills they most certainly are not. They are adorable though.





Very nice looking cat sir
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Originally Posted By: CT8
We have a Black blob of fur cat that I rescued the litter of 4 in 2004 and kept just one. It bonded to my wife. It is a useless blob of fur. I have never ever seen a more useless cat.

I was under the impression all cats are useless? Ive never owned one.
 
Just can't understand the attitude that whatever my cat catches and kills is OK because well, that's what cats do, and, it belongs to me so I don't mind. Really? Songbirds and baby rabbits are acceptable collateral damage since the cat catches vermin too? And what about your cat using my landscaping and kid's sandbox for his toilet? At least keep your cat on your own property please. Oh wait, that's what cats do.

Interesting the OP won't let his cat run free for fear of a coyote getting it but otherwise it would be loose to kill whatever it could. Let it fully participate in the ecosystem.
 
Our cat catches anything that moves (moths, spiders, ants, flies) and eats it post haste. Yet to see any mice in our house...but I imagine it wouldn't last more that a couple of seconds once he spotted it.

The day our cat didn't catch anything in the house that didn't belong there...would be the day I got a new cat.
 
Originally Posted By: AZjeff
Just can't understand the attitude that whatever my cat catches and kills is OK because well, that's what cats do,


I don't quite understand what you don't understand. Yes, I have a cat, and it catches things because that's what it does. Humans have a relationship with cats because cats catch vermin...and basically anything else smaller than them. This has been seen to be a desirable trait for many thousands of years, and continues to be so. They are not really tame, but have learned to live with us, and I think we find that makes some of us happy.
 
Stuff we've had brought in:

Mice (alive and dead)
Frogs (ditto)
A bat (very much alive)
Various sticks, twigs, leaves and cuttings

Our cats also used to catch and decapitate slow worms, but leave them on the lawn for us to find. If you're not familiar with a slow worm:

slow-worm-herpsslowomiketoms300x183.jpg
 
Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
I wouldn't say them killing everything they can is dedirable.


Not for you, but very much so for the cat...as I said, it what they do.

Killing birds, not very good, we have a worse problem here. But I think more birds, and many other creatures have been forced to extinction by human kind than by any cat.
 
My calico female is quite the hunter. Mice, birds, rabbits, big insects.....and moles! The moles in my yard have all but disappeared with this feline on the prowl.
 
I have 3, but they are strictly indoor cats so they don't get to do much hunting. However, one of them does like to eat bugs. He will actually jump and catch flies in midair and eat them.
 
Originally Posted By: car51
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Nothing, our two Himalayans are lucky to catch the food dish. Bred for their skills they most certainly are not. They are adorable though.





Very nice looking cat sir
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Thanks
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He's extremely photogenic, which helps.
 
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