New cat's first week outside...

[snags]

He's come in on three separate occasions today and dropped a small leaf, then a large leaf then a small stick at my feet, looked up at me, mewed then run back outside. Are these 'gifts'? Can we expect small birds, rodents and the occasional toad next?

[rsvp]

at the very least!

[B00]

Yeah, notice how the "gifts" are getting bigger? It'll be a giraffe before you know it.

[Bbbananas]

It'll be a dead mouse next. Then a headless chicken.

Cats love killing.

[boxtops]

They are gifts, snags - No. 1 Son used to do that when he was a kitten. Appreciate and praise!

...and yes, you may.... I found a frog in the cat's water dish one day, just sitting there looking apprehensive!

[mccfluff]

oh yes wait for the rabbits, they're fun, but at least they're big enough to catch, running around at 4am tryign to find a mouse whilst trying to keep the cat away at the same time, is not so funny

[boxtops]

I still remember the live magpie.....

[rowanwitch]

he's practicing... he sees you as worthy of gifts...you must be a good tin opener to have such an honour

[mccfluff]

magpies are buggers

[boxtops]

fluffy, especially when they are sitting in your light fitting, leering down at you.

[snags]

Rabbit?! He's still quite small so hopefully not for a while. Incidentally, the neighbour is drilling his wall and the cat is currently sitting this side, staring up at the noise and growling like a dog. Freak.

[mccfluff]

they don't appreciate being rescued

[rowanwitch]

Neighbours cat had a herring gull no thats ok you can stay in the lounge I'll go somewhere else until you want to leave....

[boxtops]

I'd growl too, if I didn't like the noise :-)

[albaqwerty]

What have you called him ??? How old is he?? What colour is he ??

You wait til Spring, he'll bring you some wonderful gifts.

[mccfluff]

a growl is the least of my worries, its when she's quiet i get scared

[snags]

Eric (already named... CD got him from Battersea). About a year old:

http://i151.photobuck...gged_01/eric-wall.jpg

[rowanwitch]

One of my old cats used to bring home kittens from elsewhere in the neighbourhood... he was a very confused old tom...

[albaqwerty]

He is absolutely blurdy gorgeous.
We had a cat a similar colour, well it was more a visitor than anything else. Ended up with the name Marmalade.
We are an imaginative lot.

[micmak]

Eric looks like a good mouser. (Ginger cats usually are) Just wait until spring you will get loads of presents.

[rowanwitch]

some of which will be headless......