Worst thing the cat's done.

The culprit was totally unrepentant and hoovered up the crunchy bits after I took the meat off the chicken carcass. No bones allowed
 
Catch of the Day Fat Kitten style....
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IfWishes said:
Street cat (feral) has produced 3 kittens in my garden! I can't get near her, she is fiercely protective. but am putting dry food and water in the vicinity of her den. The worst thing is feeling responsible for this little family and I don't need more cats in addition to the 4 I already have.
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Can you ask a local rescue charity to come and set up a trap so they can be caught and neutered?
 
I'm afraid not. This is a third world country and no such luxury exists. My only hope is that mommy cat will get used to me being around and be less protective as the babies get older. I'm pretty sure I'll be stuck with the kittens, but do dream of being able to catch and vet mom without trauma to her and bloodshed for me.
 
I'm a cat and dog person. Have both. My oldest cat is 19 and an absolute cuddly sweetheart who has never so much as caught a bird or mouse.The two boys are a different story. Smudge is loving but nervous and apart from the usual scratching up the furniture sort of thing and tearing round the house at 3am he's basically sweet and lovely. Oreo is a demon in disguise. This cat has very nearly flooded my kitchen as he learnt to turn on taps and take a drink. I was out and arrived home literally just as the sink was overflowing. He's shredded more than one pair of curtains, caught birds and mice and not killed but maimed them and left them to die. Loves to attempt to catch our tropical fish and has even managed a swim in their tank after a misjudged leap when lid was off. Broken a tv although to be fair that was both of them. Sadly he has a heart murmur so now an indoor cat.
 

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honetpot said:
This year we seem to have a lot of rabbits, and my cat who has just had kittens has brought home two babies at least as large as her kittens for them to eat on my bedroom carpet. What I can not get over is she eats the head first, ears and all, if she gets the chance.
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Our cat on the farm used to bring in rats and once we had admired them would start from the nose first. Only bit that ever got left was a hind foot, guess she was full by then.
 
Errin Paddywack said:
Our cat on the farm used to bring in rats and once we had admired them would start from the nose first. Only bit that ever got left was a hind foot, guess she was full by then.
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Mine always eat a whole small rodent, except for what looks like the liver, they must some how spit it out as they are chewing. Their digestion must be so strong as being spoilt farm cats they often come in to use the litter tray and you can never see whole bones or fur in their poo. Unlike the barn owl the barn owl that leaves pellets of poo and fur.
 
honetpot said:
Mine always eat a whole small rodent, except for what looks like the liver, they must some how spit it out as they are chewing. Their digestion must be so strong as being spoilt farm cats they often come in to use the litter tray and you can never see whole bones or fur in their poo. Unlike the barn owl the barn owl that leaves pellets of poo and fur.
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My mums cat would always leave the liver as well, on the doorstep or kitchen floor. Must not be to their tastes, I love a bit of liver (haven't tried mouse or shrew, to be fair).

Our indoor hunting is limited to spiders, but there are a lot of spiders about atm! I am saving one a day from Marnie's attentions. She has a specific war cry for when she has spotted one and is about to attempt scaling the wallpaper to get it. I think she thinks when I put them outside I have eaten them on her, so offended.
 
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The cat equivalent of leaving a parcel on the doorstep & legging it?

Found this on the outside of the cat flap after Horrid had insisted on being let in via the back door. I think this was mouse no 4 or 5 this week (plus some unidentified creature we found the guts of) He’s very much in feral Summer mode atm!
 
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The cat equivalent of leaving a parcel on the doorstep & legging it?

Found this on the outside of the cat flap after Horrid had insisted on being let in via the back door. I think this was mouse no 4 or 5 this week (plus some unidentified creature we found the guts of) He’s very much in feral Summer mode atm!
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🤣🤣🤣
 
My neighbour has a ginger cat called Venom, who is friendly to everyone he meets bar small children - and of a very specific age range (4 years old to 8 years old).

This morning I was woken up to a small child shrieking like a possessed demon, with Venom in hot pursuit. I carefully leant out my bedroom window and yelled "Venom stop being a knobhead and chasing the poor child!" Venom instantly stops chasing said small child and sulks off to go catch some breakfast. After making sure that all was well in the neighbourhood once more, I carried on with my morning.

20 minutes later I'm ready to go to work and as I'm heading out the front door, I hear the small child from earlier on crying like mad.

I rush over to find that Venom had hidden around the corner that the child has to go past to walk to school and ambushed her as she was on her way. She was in a right state the poor lamb! Venom meanwhile is sitting there washing his paws acting all innocent. Venom's owner then comes out, stumbles across the scene caused by said furry terrorist of small children and cracks a smirk......

I'm quite miffed at this point so I say "Venom's been chasing this girl for the last 20 minutes. You really need to stop him before he gets himself in trouble. Not everyone is going to ignore him and his behaviour", to which Venom's owner replies "Nothing I can do to stop him, he don't like kids so they should stay away". I rolled my eyes and went off to help the little girl find her parents so she could get cleaned up.

One of these days Venom is going to chase the wrong kid and end up hurt - but what annoys me more is the blatant lack of concern from his owner.....
 
Mum with kittens has brought home a stoat today, its dead and a real shame because it is absolutely beautiful I put on the chest of drawers while I got dressed, got side tracked and came back to find a kitten had dragged it off.
Its coat looks perfect does anyone know a taxidermist who might like it?
 
honetpot said:
Mum with kittens has brought home a stoat today, its dead and a real shame because it is absolutely beautiful I put on the chest of drawers while I got dressed, got side tracked and came back to find a kitten had dragged it off.
Its coat looks perfect does anyone know a taxidermist who might like it?
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What a pity, they really are such pretty little things! No help with taxidermists, sorry
 
Horrid has murdered & pulled to bits a bird in the garden.

There were about 5 wasps surrounding it when I went to clean up and they started getting angry and flying at me when I tried to shoo them.

Went back a few hours later and they’re still there.

Going to check again once it’s properly dark but any bright ideas welcome!

Don’t really want to spray anything unless things get desperate as think just about everything I’ve got to hand would be toxic to the cat & probably the dog too but equally I don’t want to watch it decompose and neither the dead bits or the wasp are ideal for Hooligan to try & ingest!

Is there anything more appealing to wasps than scraps of dead bird that I could lure them away with? 🙈 FML
 
Boulty said:
Horrid has murdered & pulled to bits a bird in the garden.

There were about 5 wasps surrounding it when I went to clean up and they started getting angry and flying at me when I tried to shoo them.

Went back a few hours later and they’re still there.

Going to check again once it’s properly dark but any bright ideas welcome!

Don’t really want to spray anything unless things get desperate as think just about everything I’ve got to hand would be toxic to the cat & probably the dog too but equally I don’t want to watch it decompose and neither the dead bits or the wasp are ideal for Hooligan to try & ingest!

Is there anything more appealing to wasps than scraps of dead bird that I could lure them away with? 🙈 FML
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You should have had success when it was properly dark, looking forward to hearing it has been removed!
The wasps on this Greek island will try to rip lumps of skin off you; they seem to particularly like feet.
 
Managed to remove it this morning when there was just 1 wasp left. They’d made a lovely hole in the head of it.

Amazingly the Hooligan spaniel categorised it as boring as was not interested (it seems that dead things have to be a few weeks old and starting to smell to pique his interest, although he’s been partial to the odd mouse that his brother has presented him with in the past!)
 
One of the Siamese's (presumably the boy as he's an awful robber) broke into one of our neighbours kitchens and stole an entire salmon filet out of the pan on their stove, then bolted off to scarf it down from the safety of the top of our shed. Many apologies and a new pack of salmon filets were given to neighbour.
 
So at about 1am this morning I could hear some strange thumping on my landing. My first thought was that it sounded like the nights catch was being tossed around mercilessly. But Moley hasn’t hunted since he retired as yard cat and Merlin doesn’t bring in his catches like my darling Pepper did 😭. So I tentatively pulled wider my bedroom door and turned the landing light on…

To see Moley scooting around the carpet trying to get off a massive clinker stuck to his starfish. One bit fell off but before I could grab him he ran downstairs with a chunk still attached and continued to scrape his bum on the floor. I managed to grab him this time and pulled it off using some paper towels whilst he wriggled and yelled.

My last job before I could crawl back to bed was to try to clean up all the skid marks he’d left in his wake.
 
Sussexbythesea said:
So at about 1am this morning I could hear some strange thumping on my landing. My first thought was that it sounded like the nights catch was being tossed around mercilessly. But Moley hasn’t hunted since he retired as yard cat and Merlin doesn’t bring in his catches like my darling Pepper did 😭. So I tentatively pulled wider my bedroom door and turned the landing light on…

To see Moley scooting around the carpet trying to get off a massive clinker stuck to his starfish. One bit fell off but before I could grab him he ran downstairs with a chunk still attached and continued to scrape his bum on the floor. I managed to grab him this time and pulled it off using some paper towels whilst he wriggled and yelled.

My last job before I could crawl back to bed was to try to clean up all the skid marks he’d left in his wake.
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Language is amazing. Though I've heard neither clinker nor starfish used in this context before I knew immediately what you were on about, and then felt vaguely nauseated 🤢😬😆
 
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