to be horrified, HORRIFIED, by the particially regurgitated mouse my cat has left on my patio

[fullofregrets]

Mice in their entirety I can cope with. They can be easily dealt with using a spade. Still gross but less gross than what is currently residing on my patio.
The only mouse bit left complete is the tail. The rest is in small pieces. What the hell shall I do with it? Leave it and hope something else even more disgusting than my cat comes and eats it?

I feel a bit sick thinking about it.

Weird double post there.

If we're being competitive our other cat brought a squirrel home. Dead but with no sign of trauma. This is the only creature he has even brought us. He knew he could never beat that and bowed out at the top of his game!

Headless magpie is v impressive!

I once found a headless hedgehog in our drive - front paws and all in tact.

I find it hard to believe that Sparkling cat could decapitate a magpie but I just shut the patio door before she ran in with it.

Our cat brings quite a few mice and birds in. If he's had a bird (so to speak), we'll find feathers all over the garden.

Mind you, one of the times he brought a live mouse in, the mouse got away and scurried over to the cat's bowl for a snack. Hard mouse.

Am now feeling quite fortunate that it was a liquidised mouse as opposed to a decapitiated hedgehog of magpie.
My cat is a very small cat, I don't think she'd manage anything much bigger than a mouse. She always looks very pleased with herself when she catches a mouse, I've rescued a few from her evil mouse murdering little fluffy paws.

Mine have brought in mice, birds, moles a stoat and a snipe.
The snipe was huge.
They often leave mouse bits on the floor, the head always goes down well but the tail end not so much and they aren't keen on the entrails.

MILs cat is such a lazy git, she actually sits there while the birds are scuttering around the floor eating their food. She just rolls over and lazily watches them. Added to that is the bonkers cocker spaniel which lies at the side of the sunbathing cat...

The pigeons just hop over them to get to the next bit of bread...

Sparkling cat also brings us Slow Worms in the summer. She comes down the garden with a big green droopy moustache.

lucky you that it was on the patio, not the hearth rug. Or an injured but live bird, we've had a few of those.

The mice entrails left for me are always obscured within my shaggy rug.

They're sticky little buggers on bare feet

You always have to look on the bright side sparkling, always.

She can't actually get into the main house without me opening the door, she has a cat flap into the verranda and I bring her in at night so I can stop any thing live getting into my house.
I definitely do not want a mouse that looks like it has gone through a blender trodden into the carpet! I am not very good with dead things really, but DH is even worse so I think it will be my job to remove the mouse from the patio.
Please please let a magpie or next door's huge monstrosity (fat Nigel) of a cat come and eat it by tomorrow morning.

I had to get down on my hands and knees and very, very close in order to identify what was in the middle of my carpet. It looked, from a distance like a lump with strings - up close it was the head of a pigeon (with strings)!

Thankfully my Dh discovered this one, but last week there was the back end of the mouse left on the internal doormat, not too bad you think? Except it had been a pregnant mouse and there were itty bitty fetal mice specked about!

OMG I am almost grateful it was only a headless magpie after some of these.

purple Urgh!

Purple that's hideous.
I once rescued a rat off the cat and it was injured so I put it in an old cage to recover (as you do). She had rewarded me with babies in the morning......

We have cats that can't be arsed to hunt. Easier to steal. Once caught one of ours frantically trying to pull a beautifully prepared whole raw chicken through the cat flap. Stolen from next door's BBQ prep table. Wedged in the cat flap along with some garnish. Freeing that sucker while neighbours and neighbours' guests peered over the fence while cat growled from other side of the door was fun. Dignified.

Not even sure what bloody cat was thinking - the kitchen door was open!

I don't think I mentioned the time our other cat brought a bottle of gin, packet of baccy and some doritos back did I?

Couldn't get the bag through the cat flap though.

I was a tad miffed at her forgetting the tonic, but I may have been being picky.

Maybe I am more of a 'dog person' after all.

Why do we love our cats? Remind me, because if I was an alien visiting from another planet this thread doesn't exactly sell the idea of owning one at all.

Don't worry OP, the slugs will take care of the remains. They can pick a mouse corpse clean in a few hours

I am going off my cats I can tell you! So pleased Dh found that little treasure, although 7am is not a nice time to!
I was never particularly good with the dead stuff but now I am pg I can't handle it at all. Our stupid cat, who is the mouser also has brought in a couple of worms. Our other cat generally sticks to birds.

AgentZigZag - classy cat.

Yes Agent that's very upmarket cat burglary.