It's Caturday- Post some cats (vol 3)
Discussion
motco said:
Spike Milligan is on record as saying that you can stuff a cat from whiskers to a
hole with Kit-e-Kat and I'll still go out and kill something!
I agree I just think it's the cats nature. Many moons ago our diminutive Burmese created a stir/noise when I went to check it out he was coming through the cat-flap backwards with a pigeon twice it's size in it's mouth. He hadn't been able to kill it but caught it and brought it in as a present, very nice. hole with Kit-e-Kat and I'll still go out and kill something!Edited by BIRMA on Friday 13th May 16:10
We live next to woodland where there is an abundant source of mice and voles. Lila catches something most days, with which she will do one of two things:
1) eat it, leaving just the lower digestive tract expertly removed on a doorstep
2) capture it alive, then carry it in her mouth to our sunken patio where she will release it, knowing it cannot escape. Then she will recline on a step, watching her pet run around for entertainment like an emperor at the Colosseum. When she gets bored of the sport she will wander off and we can usually do a catch and release of the victim, terrified but otherwise unharmed.
1) eat it, leaving just the lower digestive tract expertly removed on a doorstep
2) capture it alive, then carry it in her mouth to our sunken patio where she will release it, knowing it cannot escape. Then she will recline on a step, watching her pet run around for entertainment like an emperor at the Colosseum. When she gets bored of the sport she will wander off and we can usually do a catch and release of the victim, terrified but otherwise unharmed.
motco said:
Spike Milligan is on record as saying that you can stuff a cat from whiskers to ahole with Kit-e-Kat and I'll still go out and kill something!
Our eldest cat is about 16 now (he was 5 when we adopted him from a local rehoming center), he came to us as an indoor cat and remained so until about last year. He only gets out into the garden now because he can't jump high enough to get over the fence but he enjoys sitting in the sun when weather allows. He was lying beside the lawn yesterday, watching a magpie pecking about in the grass, not five feet away from him. Just content to watch it.hole with Kit-e-Kat and I'll still go out and kill something!Soft old lump
PhilboSE said:
We live next to woodland where there is an abundant source of mice and voles. Lila catches something most days, with which she will do one of two things:
1) eat it, leaving just the lower digestive tract expertly removed on a doorstep
2) capture it alive, then carry it in her mouth to our sunken patio where she will release it, knowing it cannot escape. Then she will recline on a step, watching her pet run around for entertainment like an emperor at the Colosseum. When she gets bored of the sport she will wander off and we can usually do a catch and release of the victim, terrified but otherwise unharmed.
We have a tabby who will catch mice and voles. She occasionally eats them but mainly brings them in to entertain the dogs. She makes a particular squeak that the dogs instantly recognise. Once she has their attention, she releases the mouse and steps back to what the chaos ensue as two large golden retrievers hare round the kitchen after the mouse. The older dog is an excellent mouser though and will grab it ahead of the faster but less controlled youg pup.1) eat it, leaving just the lower digestive tract expertly removed on a doorstep
2) capture it alive, then carry it in her mouth to our sunken patio where she will release it, knowing it cannot escape. Then she will recline on a step, watching her pet run around for entertainment like an emperor at the Colosseum. When she gets bored of the sport she will wander off and we can usually do a catch and release of the victim, terrified but otherwise unharmed.
He then holds the wriggling mouse in his mouth and waits to be let out where he lies down for 10 min before swallowing it.
We used to have a white fluffy ragdoll. It killed anything that moved. We'd get loads of rabbits. I swear I watching him trying to stalk the muntjac deer.
Magnum 475 said:
thebigmacmoomin said:
On the odd occasion, Poppy my cat had left us presents. Some dead and some partly alive. Currently have one somewhere in the kitchen, but i think that its found its way into the wall cavity judging by the scrabbling noise I heard. Some of these presents have been half a mouse. We had always wondered why .... did she find them or was it her. Till the other day when we caught here part way through eating a dead mouse.
This is simply your cat pointing out that you’re not feeding them enough. My two do it. Old cat usually presents me with half-digested mouse including tail. Young cat prefers rabbits, so usually leaves rabbit from the waist down in one part of the house, and most of the entrails just by the cat flap. Bizarrely I never manage to find anything of rabbit from the waist up. d.Mum's friends cat used to be a house cat. Now he isnt, he goes down the fields and catches rabbits & comes back with a bulging belly fill of rabbit.
Edited by thebigmacmoomin on Saturday 14th May 14:31
Magnum 475 said:
This is simply your cat pointing out that you’re not feeding them enough. My two do it. Old cat usually presents me with half-digested mouse including tail. Young cat prefers rabbits, so usually leaves rabbit from the waist down in one part of the house, and most of the entrails just by the cat flap. Bizarrely I never manage to find anything of rabbit from the waist up.
She'll be leaving those at the house next door. mrs singlecoil said:
Bear-n said:
That's a cracking photo. Here's Ripley (RIP) failing to look quite as charming in flowers, and just pulling off the cross-eyed lunatic look instead.
You posted a picture of Ripley a while back and from that photo I did a painting of it. Would it be okay to post it?
mrs singlecoil said:
I'm lost for words!That was my favourite photo I ever took of the idiot and you've gone one better in how you've captured him. Thank you so much for picking him as a subject. I'm still a bit dumfounded.
Edit: original image for anyone interested. You have some serious talent, Mrs Singlecoil.
Edited by Bear-n on Sunday 15th May 19:08
although I’d be in a bit less pain if my abdomen wasn’t being used as a cat trampoline! 
Bear-n said:
I'm lost for words!
That was my favourite photo I ever took of the idiot and you've gone one better in how you've captured him. Thank you so much for picking him as a subject. I'm still a bit dumfounded.
My wife is glad you like it, and would be happy to send it to you if you would like to have it.That was my favourite photo I ever took of the idiot and you've gone one better in how you've captured him. Thank you so much for picking him as a subject. I'm still a bit dumfounded.
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