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So we have three hunting cats who don't often bring us whole mice but we regularly find what I presume is the liver of (again I presume) a mouse.

Do cats consider the liver to be a delicacy in which case I should feel flattered or inedible in which case what am I supposed to do with it ?

It wouldn't be so bad (for me, I suspect the mouse would take a different view) but a liver is quite small and easily overlooked in the kitchen (whereas the live rat was slightly easier to locate...)

They usually leave the bit of the liver containing the nasty bitter gall bladder.

That makes sense - there's a green bit on it.

I'm just not sure why they would puck the liver out and lovingly carry it to me. I suspect they are expressing their disquiet about having the snip...

I feel for you! We have 3 cats, both hunters who constantly bring us gifts. Sometimes alive, most often dead. We've had mice, rats, squirrels, koi carp and countless birds, pigeons being the favourite.

I prefer them whole, but frequently get various organs, intestines, heads, feet etc. Gross!

If this is love, I'd rather they didn't bother!

I never think its's love, more put this in the bin love theres a good girl.

Koi ? Now that's classy ! We've had a moor hen, a baby squirrel (looked like an alien) and my favourite, a mole. Mice and rats are too ordinary now...

Had half a rabbit once. Twas the rear end (complete with cute fluffy bob-tail). To paraphrase Shakespeare "who would have thought the dead rabbit would have so much blood in him."

Well, not in him exactly, more smeared around my kitchen like a crazed feline mafiosa hit squad.

When my boys came home after 11 months in the shelter, on his first trip out one brought us a woodpecker

The Lodger pretty well raised himself on the streets so was given to thieving from all available sources, including local houses (with open windows I guess) and the local takeaways. He was a superb hunter of small mammals but brought us home the real prizes. Lamb chops, half eaten spare ribs, half fish........

Ah Cozie the The Street Lord was also like the lodger. He specialised in half cooked spare ribs that he had pinched from a BBQ. If we ever dared to have chinese he would stand and stare at us as we ate it.
The tail less wonder despite her balance issues is the most prolific hunter I have ever owned. She never eats she kills with a single blow - an assissination. When she finds a rat nest she will systematically kill every rat living there.