My cat brought a bat in last night

[thisisasurvivor]

No one will close the windows at night time

It's either mice or frogs

Today it's a bat

I can not deal wit these cats

It used to be funny it is a total disgrace now

one of my three cats is a hunter. The bell on her collar didn’t make much difference sadly and now in nesting season in particular I do everything I can to keep her in. I had some window screens fitted which means air can come in but she can’t get out. It’s normally children not shutting external doors to the garden that’s is her escape route……
also collars present a strangulation risk on that even the so called safety release ones don’t always do what they’re supposed to.

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It’s nature cats are hunters and often this is good for keeping the mice population down in homes

and yes I have laughed at the mouse who I was gently encouraging to go out of the back kitchen door to freedom with a broom (it had worked before many times) turned round puffed himself up and growled I am quite sure I do not score highly on the psychopathy test

a bat yes i would be ringing the vet

Keep your cats inside at night time. It won’t stop all the carnage but it certainly helps. My two are locked in at night and it definitely helps the local nocturnal wildlife population. I would keep a cat inside or have a cat enclosure if they were really murderous types.

Haha yea not even close

Have a great Sunday 😘😘😘😘😘

Our cat has 2 mahoosive bells on his collar but it makes no difference. We reckon he's either so slow they don't jangle or he somehow tucks them under his fat chin

Thanks all
Will look into screens for windows too

Thank you xxxx

Wow

Little rascals (oops for if that's causes any offence
They are loved but also very bold)

Definitely the way forward

I just don't know if bells will help in this case

My (now dead) cat did this too a few years ago, the bat was alive. It was terrifying 😳 we eventually got it back out. After she died our next cat would regularly catch rabbits and bring them into the house unharmed then get bored and go to sleep, it wasn't unusual to come home and find a furry little rabbit in our kitchen. We often wondered was it the same few stupid rabbits that kept returning. Cats are hunters, that's their nature.

Keep your murdering cats in overnight. It's not difficult. And animals being killed is never funny.

Bite me 😘😘😘

It's totally natural for a cat to do it.

So what, @Mamato29192?

Not everything that's 'natural' is I'd.

Nature in this country is being depleted at a terrible rate and people letting their cats out to hunt just makes the problem worse.

Is OK, I meant.

@Mamato29192 it is, but the increase in domestic cats over the years has decimated our native bird populations. I work in bat rescue and the main cause of injury is catted bats. Few survive due to the reasons stated about about transmission of bacteria through puncture wounds.

Whilst it’s in their nature I think owners should be taking reasonable steps to try and protect wildlife or joining the large number of people choosing not to own domestic cats anymore.

Eek.
One of mine once brought in a hamster.
One of the others brought in a loaf of bread.
My cats are weird

People are never going to stop owning cats. I keep mine inside as I don't want to lose them

No that would be inhumane.

One of ours brought a dead seagull in through the cat flap - he was backing in to the kitchen with its neck in his mouth but, as he pulled, the wings outside opened and shut blocking its entry, the crashing of the flap alerted us. Its eye was fixed in a glassy stare and glared at us. And, yes, it was as dead as 'this parrot is dead' and twice the size of the cat. Same cat brought in someone's fish and chip supper wrapped in paper. He had the sense to pull things in backwards and, as long as we we're quick off the mark, we could push his furry bum back out and lock the flap. I miss that cat.

Thank you for sharing this !!!!

My gosh I need to looking a car enclosure attached to my utility

Would make so much more sense

*cat enclosure

Google tells me Ireland has been free of rabies since 1903 and Northern Ireland since 1923. Not the same in eg England. So I would discount any rabies fears.

No problem @thisisasurvivor Also if it happens again there is a number on here you can call where they can give you advice and hopefully try and get a local bat care person out to you https://www.batconservationireland.org/found-a-grounded-bat