Garden tiger - perfect killing machine?
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I'm on my third cat.
Cat one was a floppy bagpuss. Did for the odd lazy mouse but was an indifferent hunter and, on the whole, preferred lolloping on the window-cill.
Cat two; bit more prolific but sporadic in successful kills and tended to confine her butcherous activities to the garden. Did bring a live toad in once and let it go...
Cat three. Different genus, clearly. Four year old, tabby shorthair (with the full 'w' mark on her head). Completely evil, death-dealing killing machine.
Two mice (I think) tonight. At least, I've had two lots of entrails glistening and twitching (yep, twitching) on the floor outside that bathroom. This is the same floor, with the beige carpet, where I've now shampooed blood marks out about nine times in the last three weeks. I've had tails, heads, feathers, feet (and combinations of all of these - once, notably, yellow feathers and three orange feet; anyone lost a pair of canaries?). It's every day when I come in from work, and every morning too. The count includes bats, stoats (yep, really), squirrels, a rabbit, spiders (yuk), shrews, voles, and a fair smattering of avians that will get me in trouble with Central.
And it's not a food thing either. She's fed well but just enjoys killing. And fighting, and killing some more... I think Pol Pot has been reincarnated as my moggie
Cat one was a floppy bagpuss. Did for the odd lazy mouse but was an indifferent hunter and, on the whole, preferred lolloping on the window-cill.
Cat two; bit more prolific but sporadic in successful kills and tended to confine her butcherous activities to the garden. Did bring a live toad in once and let it go...
Cat three. Different genus, clearly. Four year old, tabby shorthair (with the full 'w' mark on her head). Completely evil, death-dealing killing machine.
Two mice (I think) tonight. At least, I've had two lots of entrails glistening and twitching (yep, twitching) on the floor outside that bathroom. This is the same floor, with the beige carpet, where I've now shampooed blood marks out about nine times in the last three weeks. I've had tails, heads, feathers, feet (and combinations of all of these - once, notably, yellow feathers and three orange feet; anyone lost a pair of canaries?). It's every day when I come in from work, and every morning too. The count includes bats, stoats (yep, really), squirrels, a rabbit, spiders (yuk), shrews, voles, and a fair smattering of avians that will get me in trouble with Central.
And it's not a food thing either. She's fed well but just enjoys killing. And fighting, and killing some more... I think Pol Pot has been reincarnated as my moggie
Ace. Our current Moggie is a ginger short haired wimp who couldn't catch a cold. We use to have a mackerel tabby much as yours, his favourite stunt was to bring whole live rabbits in through the catflap and play with them in the living room. we'd usually find them crouching terrified in the corner once he'd got bored, but often there'd be just and ear or a leg and a large pool of blood...
At fittster said get a bell, they don't seem to cause the cats any distress and definitely help the wildlife a bit as it does sound like your cat is slowly destroying every other living thing in your area.
Our old cat, many years back, was a burmese and used to attack dogs as well as catching large rats, seagulls, a crow and a few other surprises in his time.
Our old cat, many years back, was a burmese and used to attack dogs as well as catching large rats, seagulls, a crow and a few other surprises in his time.
My cat used to regularly bring home these:
http://www.brainkick.com/wabbitseason.jpg
Bearing in mind I lived in a first floor apartment at the time, he had to drag the wabbit up a flight of stairs, onto a wall, then jump across an 8 ft gap to get to my balcony so he could bring it into my apartment, usually with the rabbit still alive and kicking. This is in addition to an average of three mice per night.
Now he's getting a bit older, he's down to one mouse/chipmunk per week.
http://www.brainkick.com/wabbitseason.jpg
Bearing in mind I lived in a first floor apartment at the time, he had to drag the wabbit up a flight of stairs, onto a wall, then jump across an 8 ft gap to get to my balcony so he could bring it into my apartment, usually with the rabbit still alive and kicking. This is in addition to an average of three mice per night.
Now he's getting a bit older, he's down to one mouse/chipmunk per week.
SirClarke said:
At fittster said get a bell, they don't seem to cause the cats any distress and definitely help the wildlife a bit as it does sound like your cat is slowly destroying every other living thing in your area.
My cat won't wear a collar, let alone a bell - can't catch anything anyway, think i have seen about 5 mice and 5 birds in 11 years.Surely it is just natural selection - if a cat eats you, the gene pool probably didn't need you anyway?
I ended up fitting two collars with bells on to one of our cats (ensuring that the bells also connect), that has pretty much knackered her chances of catching all the mice in the area (somehow she still nailed a pigeon) but no longer do we have little mice bodies outside the back door. Though I noticed the other day she's managed to shake off one of the collars..
When I was small I used to have an innocent looking tabby with a really wild streak. On returning from holiday once my parents were surprised to discover there was no mail, turns out the cat was hiding and attacking the postman - Mum still has an envelope with "UNABLE TO DELIVER, CAT LOOSE" written on it.
mattviatura said:
When I was small I used to have an innocent looking tabby with a really wild streak. On returning from holiday once my parents were surprised to discover there was no mail, turns out the cat was hiding and attacking the postman - Mum still has an envelope with "UNABLE TO DELIVER, CAT LOOSE" written on it.
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