To want to drown the chuffin cat?

[DoesItComeInBlack]

This is after the furry bastard turned my dining room into an improvised morg, like the ones the police use when there's been a mass murder. It contained 2 dead mice, a dead frog and a dead robin. All of which were discovered by my 2 year old who came to tell me, " Mummy a mousy is sleeping in the dining room." I was only in there this morning doing paperwork and it was corpse free then so the slaughter occurred while I was at work. I was then forced to act as a wildlife undertaker and transport the deceased to the wheelie bin.
That cat is a gingery nightmare!

Forgot to add the pork chop. Now that's a form of prey that wouldn't have heard the bell.

Adult birds getting killed at this time of year is particularly dreadful in that a whole nest may then fail ( about song thrush, a declining species) could you not put a bell or one of those jump alarm things on the cat? I was lucky in that when I had cats they caught rats and sometimes mice but not birds. Maybe the RSPB might have some tips to help prevent the bird carnage?

I had a cat that came strolling in one afternoon with a huge piece of barbecued steak... he was also covered in squirty ketchup!

what a loving cat you have OP! Hope you have all the bodies and won't find random heads/bits lying around

Mine likes to bring them in alive.

The live (but battered) magpie flying round my living room was a particular joy.

I also once had to try and remove a live mouse from the hallway with a squash racket. Stupid thing kept running towards the cat. Maybe he had a death wish.

Smaller birds he just shreds. In the living room. It's so gross. Have tried the bell collar, but he wont keep a collar on. Short of stapling the bell to his head, not sure what else to do?

haa funny cat i know how u feel my cat played in the paint tray this morning whist decorating paw print evrywhere when i showered the cat off she looked like a drwned rat i laugh now but at the time wasnt funny .

Agree really, Helly, but even when we tried a harness rather than a collar-and-bell on DeathCat, she got out of it (very skinny animal with small head). Oh, and she somehow learnt that rolling in sand or mud would muffle the bell!

Anyhow, the birds know she's there; we have an Alarm Blackbird who stands above her shouting. The problem is that once she does move, she's just too quick for them, even now.

Won't be getting another cat once this one meets its end.

We had a joint of Pork a few Sundays ago raw I might add, SquashCat1 dragged it through the cat flap looking as pleased as punch.
We have had a Whole giant goldfish before too.
An array of mice but she never kills them, she lets them in to live in harmony in the dining room.

She also worked a way of getting in the cat food cupboard so I have found her bathing in her dry food in ecstasy more than once... No wonder she's such a chunk.

I tried bells too, and he's day glow orange as well, he just came home without the collar. after 7 collars in as many days it just felt like throwing good money after bad so we gave up. And to be honest it made no difference. He was very good at catching bats when he had a bell, me and ds would be chasing the beggars around the sitting room with a kids fishing net. He caught 4 in a night once.

He also came home with a whole pork pie, still wrapped.

Usually it is just entrails we are left with but if he has a good night he eats one and lines up the rest.

We have his teeth checked regularly and they are great, previously we had a cat with inherited gum disease so we are pretty hot on that.

I'm gutted about the song thrush too, and that was the second robin he'd had. I'm thinking of starting to keep him in but he's a real outdoor cat, he was even born outside, so that feels a bit cruel- although less cruel than the bucket obviously xx

It's true that cats hunt & bring home the prey to show off their superior hunting skills; that or they're hoping that YOU will show them how to kill the poor half-dead creature...