Fao Cat Owners.

[arwyn]

Just a curious question,
My cat has always caught the odd mouse and brought it home, leaving it near the back door for us to bin.
Last year I thought she must have been in her prime and finally got the hang of it as we lost count of how many she caught, we got one most days.

This year she will be 7yo and we've had none.
SO is it---

A) She is getting old.
B) She thinks "Why should I as they bin them"
C) There aren't any to be caught (for some reason).
D) She's just lazy (Running around is for crazy cats).
E) She is eating them (I hope not)

Have any of you had any? :)

TIA.. xx

[Buenchico]

You've made the mistake of assuming that your home is the only one visited by your cat. She's probably got another human slave down the road from you, and she's delivering all the mice there.

A neighbour's cat used to spend a great deal of time in my house. She still went back to her 'proper' home but I was always the one who got 'presents' of birds (sometimes alive, sometimes dead) several times a week. (Where the hell does at cat catch a full-sized seagull, 20 miles from the sea, at 3am anyway?)

[pixie373]

Mine brought a bat in yesterday :-(

[wolf63]

Firstly - your title is an oxymoron. Cats do not have owners, they have slaves.

My two are of a similar age - they will be eight tomorrow, and they have slowed down quite a bit. They are indoor couch potato doggies.

As I am on my Kindle and I am unable to touch type it would take ages to type out an answer. I think"all of the above" covers it.

You can get a camera that she can wear out on her wanderings. That should be "fun".

[BRIGHT SPARK]

The little angel on the left brought a live rat in and dropped it in the utility..after 3 hours of dismantling units I managed to catch it :-)

[Mosaic]

Whether the weather, whatever the weather - this year mrs moocat has not brought in the summer crop of mouslings. Yet.

[arwyn]

Chris, your cat stories always make me laugh but I'd die if I thought she had another home. She doesn't like people, only me and OH, she's a proper scaredey cat.

Pixi, OMG :) a bat!!!!!

Wolf, I'd love to put a camera on her like that village did on TV.

Bright spark, That happened to us last year with a mouse, we found it alive behind the freezer.......... so it was the one that got away :)

Mosaic, That's is, where are all the mice ha ha, (maybe at Chris' house lol)

Thank you everyone, I'll watch her like a hawk, which is easy as she never goes far.

[ummmm]

Mine bought in a bird the other day and I chased him out the house (I have a weak stomach) so he went into next doors front garden, threw the dead bird about and pretended to catch it again....

He'll be 4 in October and this was the 3rd bird he's brought in. He tends to eat spiders.

He definitely doesn't have a second home.

[Razzle2011]

She is well fed and has caught on that she doesn't have to hunt........my cat was the same for a couple of years.........now she has given up on the hunting.......

[arwyn]

uuuummmm mine hates/hated it when the mice died and stopped playing. I've seen her throw them in the air and they land on the garden table for her to spend ages looking for it.
She searches for the ones we binned..

[ummmm]

I think he might have 'caught' them already dead!! He's a big girl...

[arwyn]

Razzle that so makes sense even though she never ate them she just loved to play until they stopped moving and the fun ended.

[ummmm]

The cat and rabbit love each other!!!

[wolf63]

I had previously been a dog owner but thought that cats couldn't be all that different.

After two days I tried giving George back to the Cats Protection. He opened every cupboard door the first night - then came up to my bed and lay on top of me. He growled when I even thought about trying to move. One morning in the first week or so I woke up to find him chomping and crunching his way through a huge spider.

I was told that he was 3 years old but when I told the vet this she burst out laughing. He was probably well into his teens - no wonder he had been in such bad condition when he was found staying.

I had him for five years and it was like living with a grumpy old man. Then I was stupid enough to allow myself to be adopted by the 'twins'. They will be eight years old on the 29th of June. I got them when they were 18 months old.

[arwyn]

ummmmm, Mine did once have another cat as a friend who she brought to meet me, but if I tried to make a fuss of it she would go mad..

[ummmm]

My rabbits don't live in a hutch and I often see the cat sunbathing with them.

[ummmm]

Oh arwyn...my cat, Brian, became best buddies with next doors cat. Next doors cat would only chill in my sons room for some reason. When next door moved Brian actually mourned.

[arwyn]

Wolf, that's a lovely story about George, I wonder what he'd been through before he found you. Happy birthday the twins.

Headwrek, Mine would never allow me to adopt a stray cat when I tried, I think its what their brought up with.

I'm off to bed now, I've told her its "night nights" she knows what it means.. :) Thanks everyone x

[ummmm]

They do make friends...it was really sweet. One of the rabbits especially likes the cat and follows him about.