Best way to dispose of creatures brought in by cat

[honeyandbutterontoast]

Sorry, this is a bit distasteful, but maybe someone will have the answer. Please don’t read if you will be offended.

My cat likes to bring home dead creatures. And yes I’ve tried locking the cat flap, he breaks it open. Sometimes he has killed them, sometimes he finds them dead in the fields near us.

It’s disgusting.

I triple bag them and put them in the black bin. But once again I have maggots in there 🤢

Any ideas at all, what else I could do with them? This time of year is a bumper time for him. In a week he’s brought home a pigeon, a small rabbit, four mice and three rats.

He’s a much loved family pet who is well fed and really quite old now. And he will not tolerate being an indoor cat (we’ve tried!).

I live on a farm so I'm constantly being brought dead (and sometimes not dead) creatures . I throw them on the barn roof for the crows and buzzards to take.

I put them in the food bin as we get that emptied weekly. The general refuse is 4 weekly so can't go in there as too long to hang about

Put them back in the fields, something will eat them.

If you live near a field I'd probably just chuck it back in there, tbh. Something else will munch it.

I have tried throwing it back in the field once. He brought it back 🙄

Maybe food bin would be better but ours is quite small, I’m not sure I’d have much room for food waste 😂

Chuck on the drive. Crows or jays usually arrive within minutes.

I throw in field or compost heap when he isn’t looking. Our cat doesn’t bring them back a second time.

I bury them in the garden

one of mine presents me with mainly dead mice so being as i know we have magpies in the garden behind ours i chuck them up on the garage roof and they are gone about ten minutes later the maggies love my cat i dont when he does this

We live in town so I bag and put in the litter bin. These get emptied daily where as our collection is weekly and bins are kept indoors until collection . Luckily kts only ever field mice so easy to dispose of discreetly

Our dog eats them if she gets to them first! It’s a nightmare tbh. I think she thinks the cat is bringing in the bodies especially for her.
Otherwise I pop them in the bin.

Ah, we have 2 food caddies so get everything in each week. I can't chuck back to the field behind as we have 2 cats and they would just bring it back to play. Smaller cat went through a phase of batting bodies down the side of the decking, cheers for that love...so they are all now confiscated at first sight

Compost bin

Every day I take a bag of refuse out and place it in a public bin at service station.

There is one chap who works there all year round and I see it as helping to keep him in a job and I can get rid of anything I don’t want hanging around until bin day.

We live on a river. We refer to our disposal method as 'burial at sea'.

I throw them over the fence into the woodlands behind my house.

However she managed to bring a mouse into the house this morning that was still alive, thankfully for me it was in too much shock to actually run anywhere! 😆

if they are alive and intact, catch and return outside
if they are alive and not intact, kill and put in compost bin
if they are dead, put in compost bin!
Easy :-)

We flick them in the hedge. This did not work with the series of squirrels though

My mum used to bury them in the garden.

I have terriers who have murdered the odd rat who's been foolhardy enough to stray into our garden - I put them in a plastic bag outside, then put them in the bin on rubbish day.

Alive & intact - back in the garden under some bushes (as I vainly hope that will make it harder for DCat to find them again and I also won't see the corpse if it dies)
Dead & intact - behind the shed which basically operates as a takeaway for some of the neighbour's cat

Yesterday's mouse offering was, for some reason, delivered to the dining room rather than upstairs. I herded it with a broom into the porch, opened the front door and off it strolled.

@Mariell

Every day I take a bag of refuse out and place it in a public bin at service station.

There is one chap who works there all year round and I see it as helping to keep him in a job and I can get rid of anything I don’t want hanging around until bin day.

I may be missing the point but how does you using the bin, help this man keep his job?

I mean even if you buy something everyday, it's hardly you singlehandedly keeping him in his job?

😂 at him bringing them back in!

I also put them in the compost bin.

I was most excited yesterday to find a mouse in my friendly mousetrap yesterday. I’ve had it three years and never got one before!

I once woke up to a dead mouse next to my pillow. Nicknamed kitty ‘The Godfather’ after that!

We lob the dead and dying into the hedge.
Humane mouse trap for the lively escapee’s
Me scuttling after mouse with old ice cream tub and piece of cardboard for those spotted in time and prevented from disappearing under furniture has to be seen to be believed

compost bin or thrown into shrubbery/hedge/fields.

We have a bountiful hydrangea that is fertilised mostly by vole bodies.