My cat surpassed itself today (sorry not horsey)

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My hunting machine of a cat (the tabby in my siggy) has fetched me presents ranging from (but not limited to) rats, mice, voles, lizards, birds, grass snakes, and moles. Sometimes dead, but often still alive for me to rescue. (Cue cat looking smug, she is convinced that I like to play with her gifts!)

But today was too much! I nipped out to do the horses and when I came back in I thought she had a furtive look about her. Her partner in crime was looking nervy and was sitting on the back of the sofa. I tweaked the curtains and there was a very alive, and very angry weasel!
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Poor thing I am sure it was frightened to death, but it obviously thought attack was the best strategy so ran at me and I leapt onto the sofa (so brave
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It then legged it back behind the curtains. In the end to cut a long story short I got a big jug and the weasel attacked the jug, I managed to scoop it up and chuck it out of the french window. The cats were very pleased
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, I think they secretly realised they had bitten off more than they could chew Sorry not horsey, but these animals, why do we have them!? Anyone else have a demented hunting cat??
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I had a cat who unfortuately is no longer with us. He was a lean mean killing machine. If he caught it, and he caught alot, it was a goner. On one occasion he caught a swallow.....how I do not know. On another he and his brother managed to drag a fully grown mallard through the cat flap!
 
Heavens how did he get a mallard through the cat flap??? Catdragon, I love the american ragdolls version of hunting.

I had a cat a few years ago that used to bring used tea bags back and also once a large part of a still warm roast chicken.

He also cleared the neighbours pond of prized fish. (They thought it was a heron and I let them think it, but it was my cat!
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My little cat, who was killed last month (sniff sniff), was a prolific hunter. I came down one morning to find she had wedged a pheasant in the cat flap... She was also fond of toads and shrews and everything had to be brought to the masters alive... I miss her
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but I don't think the mice do!
 
Mine drag rabbits in throught the catflap somehow, caught one parading across the room holding it like a kitten once. If I don't catch them the eat every bit except the backlegs, tail and the bag of poo...gross and it really smells.
 
My catflap has seen some action in it's lifetime OM! How they got the duck through it I will never know. One day I came home from work to find my Rhodesian Ridgeback wearing said catflap like a necklace! Found it quite funny til I realised I had to get it off her somehow.
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I had a little cat called Katy who caught a bat. We used to leave the bathroom window open for her to get in and out and there I was on the huhum 'Throne' and she jumped through the window with what I thought was a mouse. until she let it go and it flew panic stricken around the house for quite a while. We managed to lock the excited Katy in a Broom cupboard and then shut each room up until we had it isolated in the hall!!
 
My cat Dixie is doing well if she manages to get off the bed and acually get outside! She has never even caught a butterfly let alone anything furry
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By the way is anyone elses computer on a go slow tonight????
 
LOL loving the weasel episode!! My cat loves hunting and managed to empty a swallows nest of their babies
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when they were fledging earlier in the 'summer'.

He also likes taking on rabbits and his most recent attempt was a cormorant with a sore leg on the cliffside....... Clearly he knows no limits.....
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so funny,i think the cat had taken on something out of her league there,we live by a river and have wild mink my cats never go down there,even though tabby cat is a mass murderer,she knows her limits,ginger cat puked on OH pillow today must be because he complained about my dinner i did in the slow cooker,see my previous post from last night
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My first cat Wilma was a very thing weak looking thing due to a patch on her lung, damaged tendons and cat flu before she was 6 months (rescued by my parents) - her best efforts were a live racing pigeon (leg tag intact so it was given back to its owner still alive) and a perfectly cooked leg of Lamb!

My dads current cat (an American Short Haired bruiser that was rescued in Saudi and shipped back [mummy cat smirking and thinking suckers]) managed to catch a bird - while in quarantine!
 
So funny. I know it wasnt for you, but it is for the rest of us.

My beloved tabby caught a squirrel and brought it back over a picket fence alive as a pressent.

My feral cat, Bill who is ginger and has adopted me catches rabbits, swallows, bats, shrews and moles. All neatly presented to me in my horse's stable!!

I think that is why I love horses and cats so much, because they retain so much of their wild behaviour and instincts.
 
I'd be mortified if my cat brought in some one elses dinner!

Fortunately she is getting on a bit and is not much of a hunter.

Lot can be said that there are too many cats per square kilometer...
 
Catdragon you have American ragdolls too? my boy is a ragdoll, but i keep him indoors after my first cat got run over 6 months after i got him : (
i specifically got a ragdoll as i heard they make great indoor cats, but from hearing these am feeling more guilty than ever condemning him to a life of catching flies and toy mice! sorry veered of the subject a bit here guys! any advice greatly appreciated
 
ours used to bring home pheasants, alive which ment we had to sneak them back to the pheasant farm before they were missed, trust me that farmer did not have a sense of humour should have had better fencing as well on his cages
 
Your cats' exploits make mine look very tame. All I generally get is a sucession of small voles. Mind you both the "outside cats" can go into the garden and come back with a vole in about 5 seconds flat. My "indoor cat" (her choice) has never caught a thing, except the odd sock that's fallen out of the tumble dryer!
 
im so glad ive read this thread. i thought my cat was a brute but hes amongst friends on this thread.
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he got turfed out of his home and came to me as the neighbours on his estate were fed up of his antics and complained to his owner to find him a new home. He cleared 2 hedges of baby birdies, would kill anything he could get his paws on. he would go through dustbins and upturn them on bin day and the final straw was when he came trotting down the road with a chicken hed just capture
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i regularly find him with some kind of prey. regularly rabbits and squirrels. mice - dont think hes into themb that much as he has to catch a lot to feel full. hell kill birds, sometimes eats them, but if he catches robins he leaves them for us. He cleared out 2 birds nests that were nesting in my stables last year. hell catch moles but leaves them untouched for me to deal with.

I have even found dead rabbits in my stables where he has caught a few, put them in a safe place, eaten part of them, then covered it up with shavings so the flies dont get onto it and hes fast asleep on my hay!

And the best thing hes sweetness and like with us
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My female cat is not much of a hunter at all, and her best effort was a blackbird. Not a lot to comment on, you might think, but this particular cat had to have all of her teeth removed shortly after we rescued her - and it appears that the poor blackbird had been "gummed" to death.
 
One of my old cats used to bring home charity shop bags (the ones they post through your letterbox folded up) we has about 30 if those down the side of our decking, he also brought home teatowels, fag packets and once a pair of socks - over the space of about 2 days - one on the front doorstep, one on the back - never worked out where he was getting these from!!
 
My old cat was a very petite femine lady, but such a good hunter! Once she dragged a seagull home...no idea if she'd killed it herself but it was almost as big as she was!
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