Do all cats bring you “gifts”

That's what my girl does, loads of meowing, then confusion as to why the would-be-prey just left. It's rather cute - and handy eh?!

I had a female cat called Moose. She regularly bought me green slime from next doors pond. Very pleased with it she was too. Meowing at me till I stroked her and told her she was a clever girl. She was a lovely cat.

Mine brings absolutely nothing. Never killed anything in his life (to my knowledge). He has a little trot round the garden and the neighbour’s garden and that’s about it, will bask in the sun in nice weather but otherwise he’ll be inside. He’s a lover not a fighter, far more interested in his toys, cuddles and a warm lap with the telly on.

Sometimes I really feel like I hit the jackpot with my little soul cat

Oh I forgot. One of ours used to bring in slow worms. I love reptiles so that was fine and I would just remove them back to the garden.

Our girl who has been the only one to bring in mice is truly cunning. She brings them in alive, then puts them in our bath tub. They can[t escape and she has a merry time chasing them until we realise and rescue them. DH always says she would have made an excellent Field Marshall. She hates our older 21 year old cat and waits until the latter is doing her business in the litter tray before she attacks. It's quite exceptionally clever.

Mine don’t. They keep all rodents for themselves.

My previous cats brought me:

Snakes
Cockroaches
Birds
Grasshoppers
Mice
Praying mantis
A chameleon

My current three cats are thankfully too lazy/dopey to bring me anything more than the odd leaf 😑

Our first cat (male, neutered) had no interest at all in hunting. A dead bird fell out of the sky right in front of him and he looked a bit pleased with himself and picked it up and brought it to me but otherwise he brought home nothing. But he did like stealing runner beans from a basket in the kitchen and would drag them into the living room to play with.

Our second cat (male, neutered) started with a large worm as a kitten and progressed to bringing home mice, shrews, field mice, birds and on one occasion, a baby rat. He once caught a mouse and came in through the cat flap with it, dropped it in his box under the kitchen table, then went out and brought back a second live mouse. So there we were trying to catch two mice running round the kitchen.

I’ve not long had my first boy cat .. found some “ bits “ on floor when came home once , looked like innards of some description- yuk
1 mouse - live - running down my kitchen - towel on top , scooped it up and into back garden it went , was really hoping as a neutered male he’d not be doing this
Previous girl cats - every bloody week - dead and alive 🤢

Not all do. Is there anyone that would know about this cat's habits? Where is it at the moment?

Some never hunt, some kill and eat their prey outside, some leave half eaten bodies (or gallbladders) inside, others leave live animals trapped in houses and some very proudly do their best to catch leaves blowing in the wind.

I’d recommend a cat flap that stops the cat coming indoors if it has anything in its mouth.

My cat only seems interested in massive rats. They're almost as big as him. I don't know how he manages to bring them home without collapsing from exhaustion.

He also seems to have taught his friend, the neighbour's cat, how to hunt. (Or he's letting his pal borrow some of his victims.)

We don't have a cat flap so we don't end up with them in the house thankfully.

I wanted a indoor cat but he was too sweet to resist when we looked at rescue cats.

He goes to the toilet outside and only uses his litter tray once in a blue moon. I would rather deal with a dead rat once in a while than the daily scooping so it's not all bad.

Yes, in the UK - live quite rurally though. The trouble with the the snakes is that they're brilliant at playing dead....when in fact, all bar one of them later turned out to be alive . On the bright side, she leaves them near the back door rather than actually bringing them inside...

snakes ? are you in the UK

My old cat once came home with a massive frog, the frog played dead for hours until I discovered it the following morning. Frog survived

My cat doesn't its too much effort. She did kill a spider once and was extremely pleased with herself

my other cats have especially the girls, one killing three birds one morning and laying them out like some sort of voodoo ceremony. I had another cat at the time who had just had kittens and the ceremony, I assume, was for them

I’ll never forget being awoken to DD who was probably 5 at the time, screaming ‘mummy daddy there is a massive WORM in my room’ at 7am … the cats had caught a slowworm which had escaped their clutches and slithered under her door 😂

When i was a kid, our cat brought home empty fag packets and crisp packets. 😂

Our Jade was a proficient mouser, gifting us and next door.

Our current two only have access to our secure garden, and we've only had two birds in a few years.
Much safer to keep cats indoors, if possible, and reduces the chance of presents.

I had one who brought me endless quantities of (clean) underwear, along with gloves (gardening ones in summer, wooly ones in winter). And the occasional toad, which left him foaming from the mouth for about an hour which was very amusing.

So if your cat brings you gifts, don't assume it'll be rodents - it literally could be anything! (I've got one currently who brings snakes...)

I've only had one cat that did it 😊 he used to bring home birds

We have 3 cats and live by a canal so we often have gifts.

the very first time a mouse was brought in, was when my housemate and I were away. Her husband got given the mouse and we think it’s because they thought he is a big stupid kitten who needed looking after while we were gone! Oddly sweet!

My young female cat brings in butterflies a few times a day throughout the summer - luckily they're always alive and I can usually get them off her in time!

Our current two cats aren't too bad, we probably get an offering once per month on average. When I was growing up on a farm we had a big female cat that had a single-kitten litter; that cat grew to be an absolutely enormous vicious bastard and seemed to view hunting mere rodents and songbirds as being beneath it - it wasn't unusual for him to bring full-grown pheasants to the door (which thankfully he never managed to get through the cat flap, not for want of trying!).

Over a great many years from various cats, I received birds, mice, toads, a slow worm, a goldfish, a dove and a rat. All but the rat were still alive so not many dead bodies to dispose of. All the rest returned to the garden/field and the dove to local vets.

One does - three rats/mice this week already

One I don’t really count as it’s leftovers from the pub like roast potatoes

Two are too lazy!

My older cat is 8 and seems to have outgrown it. The little one is 2 and is a killing machine. He often eats his prey and growls if I approach him. His biggest prize was a live pigeon bigger than he was that he dragged through the cat flap.

Both mine do (6 years old, one boy one girl), and their offerings may be alive or dead!