Crazy Cat ?

[Chipchopper]

There is a small black cat, in the area where I live that lives a semi feral life.
It just turned up about a year ago and excepts food, put out by a local lady, most of the time though, its spends its time stalking birds that come into my garden and nearby.
I'm sure this wee moggy thinks its a fierce black panther, when I returned home recently and saw it stalking a rabbit and when the rabbit ran away, the cat chased it into the bushes. What surprised me was, the rabbit was actually larger than the cat !

Anyone else seen anything like this ?

[wolf63]

It all seems like totally normal cat behaviour. They are strange and complex animals - and very annoying and frustrating

[EdmundD]

We took in a semi feral cat 3 years ago and have seen similar.

Cats are not intimidated by size plus their teeth, claws, speed, agility make them a formidable opponent for most animals.

[237SJ]

I had a blue burmese cat when I was younger and when he was young, he left a rabbit outside our back door. The rabbit was bigger than the cat and not only that but he had chewed the head off it.

[Toorak]

I have a friend who found a dead hare wedged in the cat flap

[hereIam]

Poor rabbit, poor hare !

[bunkmoreland]

Our unfortunate rabbit slayer went on high alert across the field in pursuit! We went to intervene and discovered it was a young fox she had spotted! She has a history of chasing squirrels and the fox bush had got her all riled up! She was scooped up and put back in the house pdq!

[Buenchico]

I had a large black cat which would actively stalk and chase Rottweilers, German Shepherds, etc. Their owners quickly learned that bringing their dog past my house on a lead would result in them being dragged along the footpath by a rapidly fleeing dog!

However if my friend walked past my house with her English Setter, the dog would always sit down at the end of my path and bark until my cat went out to meet him. They'd then spend several minutes rubbing their faces together in greeting!

[bunkmoreland]

Cats are a dominant life form chris;-)

[Buenchico]

My four certainly dominate me, Bunkmoreland!

[bunkmoreland]

you are lucky to have 4 although our 1 is a full time jail term;-)

[Buenchico]

I'm off to bed now and I'll try to remember that I'm "lucky to have 4" as I get yet another sleepless night due to the cramp in my legs from having Biscuit trapping them, a 6kg weight (a.k.a. Chequers) pressing down on my chest, the crashing of ornaments around me as Tablo tries to pretend that she's still a kitten and the sound of Moonbeam throwing up after he's been drinking from the washing-up bowl again (despite having three bowls of clean water to choose between).

What fun!

Goodnight ;-)

[bunkmoreland]

Goodnight my catty friend;)