To think my cat is trying to tell me something?

[CrazyCatLady13]

I have four cats. The most recent arrival, Rolo, was a stray who found his way through the catflap about a year ago and never left.

For the past few weeks, Rolo has been leaving me severed animal heads around the house. Sometimes he's obviously bought them in and played with them as well while I've been at work.

I've been trying to think of a reason why he's just leaving the heads - I've had lots of cats but never had one that just left heads! I had one who ate her prey whole right in front of me, and another who just left the gall bladder, but this is new to me.

I've come up with the following reasons:

1. He's reliving a past life as a axe murderer or guillotine operator.
2. He just likes collecting severed heads.
3. He's watched The Godfather too many times (thankfully none of the heads have been in our bed so far!)

Does anyone have any other ideas about what he's trying to tell me? Maybe when I get the message he'll stop!

Hatespiders - one of mine runs away from spiders! Mind you he also gets scared of his shadow and thinks his tail is a toy, then yelps when he catches it in his claws................... good job he's pretty!

My evil murderous bastard cat leaves heads and stomachs

My mum's cat leaves the nose, teeth & tails of ickle fwuffy wabbits

CrazyCatLady, we have a seal-point called Murphy just like that!

at people with cats. I love 'em. DD is selfishly allergic to them so I had to give our last one up .

My last cat was a useless hunter. She used to bring in worms and daddy longlegs. My colleague had 2 cats, one used to bring mice, frogs etc home but the other one just used to bring in empty fag packets and any other bits of litter it could find.

Siamese are weird characters. We buy/make toys for our cats, and leave them in the kitchen for them to play with. In their 'mad hour' in the evening they belt around tossing all the toys about. But what's strange is that, when I get up in the morning at 6am, all their toys have been neatly plonked in their food dish. How tidy is that?

Cats , Murdering their way through indigenous mammals and rare insects since Roman Times....................Whilst every last one should be deported apart from Scottish Wildcats which are indigenous,I would put up with having bells round all their little throats.............Big heavy ones ..........

My cat doesn't like birds heads. Its the beak, I think. She did bring a sausage roll in once. The look of sheer disgust on her face, when I thanked her and then put it in the bin, was a picture!

It's a cat. They don't reason.

I had a Siamese called Simon who stole things from neighbours' washing lines. He reached up, grabbed an end, pulled it off the pegs and came home with his trophies. I got several bras, tights, and once a few doll's clothes. I later found out two little girls next door were playing at tea-parties and had undressed their dolls. Simon must have run off with the little knitted items when they weren't looking. I've no idea who owned the bras. I could hardly go round knocking at doors with them. He died years ago, but I can still see him wrestling with the underwired cups and straps, dragging them through the catflap.

I love all cats (and dogs too) but Siamese or oriental cats are the most fabulous creatures of all.

Simon is a good name.

The most fantastic name for a cat is Nimrod: the Mighty Hunter.

I also called a cat Clarence, after the boss-eyed lion in Daktari

Ah, Limited, you're so right. When I go into the kitchen in the early morning and see six enormous ears and those three little pointy faces sticking up from the cat basket, my heart swells. Even if they've weed on the kettle during the night, I can't resist their howly yowls of greeting!

Hatespiders A big-eared pointy little face going: 'Mwow, mwow, mwow.'

Who could resist?

Even though it's 6am and he's jumping up at your bedroom door handle?

You are actually very honoured. The head contains the brains, which are much valued by predators. If he gives you this part of the body it means he really values you. My cats always used to eat the head and leave me with crappy livers and tails

hatespiders. He's not allowed in the bedroom because I can't cope with his fur. But I feel so guilty when I go to bed and leave him because the nights are cold.

I've now started giving him a hot water bottle.

I once told the DC that our cat had caught a mouse and that I'd found the body but not yet the head. Thinking they should be careful walking about...They thought it was some weird treasure hunt and got all excited about 'head hunting'

hiddenhome - never thought a mouse head was an honour! I'll smile the next time he brings one in, thank you!

Limited, ours aren't allowed in the bedroom as they wee on things. They'd probably wee on my dh's head while he slept.

One of my Siamese, SmokeyPokey, can talk. When you ask him what he wants for Christmas he looks up and says, "Laptop!"
I swear this is true!

I think a hot water bottle is a brill idea. Ours cuddle up together, but the kitchen is always warm anyway.