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Cats and Ducks
Has anyone else had a cat that has caught ducks? I've got an 18-month-old cat that brought a huge adult Mallard from the nearby park through the catflap. I've never heard of this before (birds, mice, rats, frogs, bats and insects yes) and wondered if anyone had a similar experience. The physics of how he actually did it are baffling - it was twice his size.
(Happily the duck was taken to RSPCA and survived to fight another day.)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.My neighbours cat once caught a seagull. She found the cat trying to pull the seagull through the cat flap. The gull was a little shaken up but survived the experience.
Also my cat recently brought home a live budgie!! very strange. I know its only small but i was'nt aware we had free flying budgies in this country! suspect she pinched it from a house. The budgie survived!
FP, your cat must have been part bionic to catch squirrels on a regular basis; mine are much too lazy for that.
Aschenbach, my cats have never caught ducks, but like most cats they've regularly caught rabbits, mice, shrews, voles, etc. I came downstairs one morning to find a massive dead rat on top of the sideboard! YUK, the thought still makes me shudder.
I have a German Shepherd dog whose dad used to occasionally scale an 8-foot fence, swim the river (even in full flood) over to the nearby smallholding, ignore the sheep and cows, but help himself to a chicken, then swim all the way back and jump back over the fence with it for a tasty lunch.
Our smallest cat must have taken it in through the catflap and up to the bedroom and onto the windowsill as the curtains are always shut so that only she can get on the windowsill (and not our other cat who would eat all her food).
Still to this day don't know how she managaed to get a magpie through the catflap and all the way upstairs, but we do know she has a thing for them as she sits and watches them in the trees and does a funny half miaow (without sound) with her mouth.