Cat 1 Human 0 (Shrew deceased)

[Buenchico]

Having reported on here last night about the cat who was tossing a dead mouse backwards and forwards over my feet, I've just spent the last few minutes trying to catch the live shrew in my living room before the cat (which brought it in) beat me to to it. Regrettably, I lost :-(

The shrew not only lost, but also became lost. (i.e. I can't find out where the cat has hidden it). So I'll probably have to wait for a week or so before the smell tells me where it is!

Isn't life fun?

[237SJ]

My mum`s cat brought a mouse in and killed it a few months ago. She didn`t know what the cat had done with it until she went to put her slippers on. She found it then!

[NazNomad]

You'll soon have enough pelts to fashion yourself a tasteful merkin. :-))

[Buenchico]

Yes, 237SJ, cats always find the very best places to hide their trophies ;-)

The current total, since the start of the year is 3 pigeons, 2 blackbirds, 1 mouse and 1 shrew (plus, no doubt, what I've yet to discover!). She's not even my cat!!!!

[Buenchico]

Thanks Naz. Perhaps I'll make myself a fur mankini ;-)

[NazNomad]

Make me unsee that mental image, please, lol

[237SJ]

They say cats bring you dead animals because they are feeding you, their human family. Do you feed the cat? He`s just returning the compliment. Not that that is much comfort when you have to pick up dead animals. My old cat brought home a headless rabbit once.

[ummmm]

Brian is still on flies...such a wuss :-((

[Buenchico]

237SJ:
I feed the cat with cans of Kitekat and plenty of tuna. If she wants to return the favour, I'd rather she nipped down to the shops and brought back a bottle of Scotch!

Ummmm:
It won't be long before you get your first 'little gift' ;-)

[Caran]

I used to live in a bungalow, I heard this shrieking noise, my cat jumped in the bedroom window and jumped on my bed and gave me a frog in the middle of the night,
in fact she was quite partial to frogs, she caught one in the garden, I took it off her, and for safety put a plastic plant pot over while I took cat inside, went back outside and pot was moving down the lawn in leaps and bounds, brilliant to see.

[ummmm]

He's only 18 months.....

I don't want presents..!!

He's good mates with the cat next door....hopefully they will play with their catches before they get home.

[netibiza]

My cat makes an awful strange noise (can't describe it) when she has prey and is heading for the house, so all doors are very quickly slammed shut. I cannot stand having birds, mice, lizards et al running ouround inside, so at least I have a warning and can act.

[netibiza]

237, actually the cats bring the prey to the house, because it is their home and they are comfortable to be there.

[boxtops]

Strangly enough, decaying corpses don't smell, IMO. I only found the carcas of a mouse behind the fridge once, when we had a sudden flurry of bluebottles which had hatched in it.....
Your cat is ahead of mine, so far this week I have been given a small pigeon, and a mouse. (or, more accurately, parts of same....)

[B00]

When I had my cat she'd bring headless bodies home and leave them on my doorstep. Unfortunately the dog often got to them before i did and used to try to bury his finds in my bed.

[boxtops]

My hall carpet is (rather stupidly) a dark pattern, very like parts of dead things. I trod on the mouse torso this morning, not for the first time.

[B00]

oh ewww boxy!!

<shudder>

[boxtops]

I get very clean feet at this time of year....

[tiggerblue10]

Tiggs and Blue use to bring worms in and I trod on once as well. Not good when you have a phobia of them!!!

These days Tiggs just brings tiny mice in and they are usually still alive. I've manged to save a couple of them and let them out into the garden, but when I pick them up, their little hearts are beating so fast that that they probably end up having heart attacks and dying anyway. Poor little things :o(

[lcg]

must be something in the water...sneakypuss brought in a mouse last night and as usual let it go to play with it first (she's quite sporting in that way!). i also have to find a way to bury my son's gerbil in the garden without my three little bu**ers bringing it back in later. last year my youngest (fattypus) brought in a black gerbil...lord knows where she got that from. we also get worms, dragonflies and even a frog (from next doors pond) and a budgie! as you can tell, their taste is quite ecclectic x

[wheaten]

My cat's first catch was a parrot! I saw a pair of yellow legs sticking out from under a cushion, luckily it was a large plastic toy! Goodness know were he stole it from.
Recently it was a fight between me, the cat, the dog and a live blue tit. The bird knocked itself out when it hit an inside window so I scooped it up and when it came round I threw it out the window hoping it would fly away. It plummeted to the ground below: patio 1, bird nil!