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

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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.

We get a lot of mice in the winter (many live but mostly just a collection of organs left behind in a surprisingly neat pile) The odd bird, a rat.
In the summer we get loads of baby rabbits - just head, feet and tail left .

The worst thing ever was the bat. The LIVE bat. Oh yes. It was like a hammer horror movie in my kitchen. When that thing was flying round it was the size of a blardy eagle but when my lovely neighbour (dh away) and I tried to find it ...I had run out of the room shrieking like a big Jessie during the flying part and phoned aformentioned kind neighbour...ahem.... it returned to the size of a tiny mouse that can hide in any part of your kitchen. It was eventually located in the folds of a curtain. I now live in fear of another one.

I still love my murdering bastards cats.

YY delilah - it's like a benny hill sketch (I ONLY I had the music) with dh and I screeching at each other 'it's going under the sofa noooooooooooo' - diving with Tupperware etc etc

A bat? That's a whole new level of horror right there!

Noo to bats.

My mothers big boy has jumped into the middle of a flock of blackbirds and made away with the biggest of the lot. Mum found the mangled corpse outside the front dor half an hour later and a wing under the coffee table.

He also dissected a seagull and left the head and wings spread around the kitchen and the body in the bathroom.

Mice and voles get deposited whole in the living room- half alive and terrified.

Janedont Bats are protected species. (Can't disturb them and for certain-if not all- species you need a licence to handle them)

Your cat is in sooooo much trouble.

Just think how horrified the poor mouse was!

We used to have a cat that left a decapitated baby rabbit in the bathroom every morning. (Not the same baby rabbit, obviously.)

Small animals get a pretty rough deal really don't they?

There must be a pile of heads somewhere with all this decapitated stuff.

Why on earth are some of you 'horrified' or 'frightened to screaming point' at the sight of a small animal albeit dead or in pieces? What will this attitude teach your children?

An animal or bird attacking / killing another is nature's way. Who are we to argue with it? Do you casserole beef? You will have to cut up meat for it. Do you eat liver and onions? You will have to prepare an animal's liver for it. What a load of babies you are!!

When I was small, my grandfather would bring back a rabbit now and again. My grandmother would skin and gut it and I watched. Now I could do that with no hesitation. Didn't you do Biology at school and dissect frogs or worms? Why is it different when an animal or predatory bird does it?

It was only last week that I had a female sparrowhawk in my back garden killing and eating a wood pigeon. I was impressed with the beauty of the predator and had to clear up the mess afterwards.

Oh Rule I think you are taking this thread a bit seriously.

Will it teach them not to prod said dead animal?
I don't care, Im not a wimp but blended mouse is horrifying. Ditto rabbit's head, bat, baby duck and fetal mice. Fetal mice. It even looks disgusting written down.

Would it be better for us not to be moved or affected by it at all? I'd find it slightly disturbing if this were a whole thread of clinical detachment.

isn't it funny, we love these little killers so much!!

the things we have had are similar to everyone else and every time I can not quite believe that the furry snuggly thing I love so much could be so cold blooded!

I also forget how delicate the little things are that she brings in. I stupidly once tried to take it out of her mouth and we ended up with half each I was physically sick.