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 would love a cat so much but these threads mean I'll never get one

ah yes, the great family mouse hunt in the living room after which I ended up with major knee carpet burns will go down in family history!

if it helps, ours are now about 7 and the catch rate has significantly dropped...

I chuck the remains at the foot of the hedge outside. I've had enough maggots in the food waste bin from uneaten cat food, ditto the refuse bin (yes they were bagged up, usually wrapped in foil, then put in nappy bags, before a black bin bag - still got maggots.

Don't know where the corpses go, but they disappear within hours. We do have quite a lot of foxes around (urban area), and I expect they, or other scavengers, provide the waste disposal.

He’s 15 :( he catches more now than he ever did.

The dogs do eat them if they get a chance. Although they avoid the rats, think they are dead by poison.

I’m much more casual about this than I used to be.

Mine usually eats a small rat, mouse or shrew whole, so no remains. A bigger rat, rabbit or squirrel usually has its head and tail rejected so I bag it in a nappy bag or similar (I buy them for this purpose) and put it in the waste bin on the foot path at the end of our garden.

Anything larger than that, such as a pigeon, is normally left outside and the red kites will love it so I may kick it into an open place so they can swoop for it. You do just learn to deal with this stuff

@DHandInterview

I would love a cat so much but these threads mean I'll never get one

Mine couldn't catch a cold. He gazes happily at things as they run around him. He did bring me a leaf once which was nice Honestly if he brought me a mouse I would be taking him to the vet, that's how astounded I would be

I did snort laughing at "he brings them back"

we once had a morning while girl cat tried to teach us to hunt:
mouse given,
human fails to catch,
mouse retrieve and given again
human fails again
repeat ad infinitum...
they declared us failures on that day!

I honestly would rather he ate them. Instead he barges his way into the kitchen yelling his head off, flings it on the floor and then marches back off out again.

As if he’s doing me some kind of favour ffs.

Im thinking maybe the fact I always dispose of them quickly makes him think we love his delicious gifts. I have no idea how his mind works with such things.

I’ve got fairly hardened to picking them up. It’s just the maggots in the bin I can’t bear 🤢

Dead ones double bagged in the general waste and the live ones….eaten by the dog.

Our cat eats them or brings live ones in which we have to catch, e find a clear glass best

I think there is an element of them bringing us gifts! If we are not suitable appreciative, they will go out and get us something else.. worship them for the gift, and then hide it as soon as they lost interest ( fairly fast in my experience unless it is 4am and they can play with it on the stairs...). But make it feel like you 'feel' it is a gift, and the offerings decrease

If alive, I catch it and try to put it somewhere safe until it recovers from the shock.

If dead, I either bag it and bin it or throw it in the field but it sometimes appears again on the door step 🙄