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To be pissed off with my cat

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MozzchopsThirty · 04/04/2018 21:45

I'm ok when she kills little shrews or small birds, that's what cats do!

Today I got home to what can only be described as a murder scene!!!!!
She had dragged a magpie through the utility room window, it was as big as her!
There was blood everywhere and I mean everywhere, all over the white goods, pools of it on the floor, all up the door, the walls, it was hideous
The bird was twitching on the floor, I got it outside and had to phone the RSPCA as it was suffering but I couldn't kill it!
Ds2 traumatised and wants to bury it tomorrow

It took me 2 hours to clean up, I've locked the cat out and I'm so pissed off!

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HildaZelda · 04/04/2018 23:34

I came home last week to the remains of a (cooked) chicken carcass in the back garden, so either my cat had learnt how to use the bbq while we were out, or else she'd been in the neighbours bins.

BlueEyedBengal · 04/04/2018 23:35

Delilah our tiny tabby loved to eat mice but always left the guts behind for us to find!

Springersrock · 04/04/2018 23:36

My massive boy cat brings in leaves (and once a chicken breast)

Girl cat is tiny and managed to get a pigeon twice the size of her through the cat flap.

LittleLightsShineBright · 04/04/2018 23:38

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achangeisasgoodasabreakdown · 04/04/2018 23:38

My last cat was a very small female cat. When I was about 15, my parents went away for the weekend leaving me and her home alone. She brought me, and thoughtfully decapitated an adult male hare, twice the size she was. I called my uncle, who was visiting my grandparents, and had him deal with it. I'm not squeamish, but I didn't think anyone would believe me if there wasn't another witness.

I do like why cats do this though. They think we're useless cats who need looking after. Except current dcat. He's male and believes that our lives are entirely based around his meal, nap and cuddle times.

afreshnewname · 04/04/2018 23:39

My little dickheads are banned from the cat flap, we keep it locked now after countless dead birds & shrews, a live rabbit and a half dead rat have been brought in. Oh and once a slice of pizza

Weezol · 04/04/2018 23:43

Cats bring their prey to whomever they percieve to be the weakest (basically a kitten).

Mine's a house cat, but enjoys taking down insects in flight and eating them. I occasionally come across half a wasp that she's put by for later.

IncyWincyGrownUp · 04/04/2018 23:48

Fat cat!bastard is useless, all he’s ever managed to catch is fleas.

The smaller cat!bastard is a fucking menace, and her favourite time of year is approaching as she’s a fan of frogs. We have to keep her in at night when it’s mating season as she can be heard flinging the frogs up and down the garden. Well, the frogs can be heard, as can the defiant jingle of her bloody bells.

Babdoc · 04/04/2018 23:49

My previous cat brought in a large, live, uninjured rat, which leapt for my throat as I was trying to chase it out the kitchen door with a broom!
The cat before that killed a neighbour's pet rabbit, neatly butchered it into portions and left it on our front lawn.
My present cat runs an overnight abattoir on my kitchen floor. I come down in the mornings to severed heads, feet, tails, intestines, and, on one memorable occasion, four mouse fetuses.
Surprisingly, the cat is actually an affectionate character and I'm hugely fond of her. I think the local field mice probably aren't...!

IllBeAtTheBarIfYouNeedMe · 04/04/2018 23:50

I was woken up by my old boy fighting 4 local foxes the other week. He’s 18 and has calmed down a lot with his mouse slaughter but I really thought he was going to bring a Fox back then.
Young boy loves to catch the frogs and toads in the garden. He likes to leave them on the stairs because he’s trying to off us
Girl cat is too busy eating stickers and flies to notice anything else. She’s not that bright I think

OurMiracle1106 · 04/04/2018 23:54

One of my childhood cats used to like to catch things n bring them in Alive and let them go. Plenty of mornings we woke to a bird flying around the living room, frogs hopping in the hallway and I’m pretty sure that’s how we ended up with a mouse in the kitchen despite having 6 —clearly useless— cats

Elusiveone · 04/04/2018 23:55

Only one of my cats brings stuff in usually birds mice or a frog. But they both love to bring slow worms in alive and mo kiding i have a phobia about these slow worms. I have to get my neighbour into take it outside Sad

MadMaryBoddington · 04/04/2018 23:57

I once woke up to find a crow corpse had been lovingly left by my bedside. I’d like to have seen her dragging that through the cat flap.

A friend’s 25 year old cat recently brought in a massive pigeon. That was impressive.

AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 05/04/2018 00:00

@QueenDoris Perhaps try a cow bell? :o

Icepinkeskimo · 05/04/2018 00:01

My list so far in addition to the countless mice an small birds includes:-

A rabbit (wild not a fluffy bunny I'd have the neighbours would lynch me)
A parakeet!
A pink fluffy duster

And horror of horrors A T-BONE STEAK! Which was raw and had been dragged through the cat flap. I did. Insider for one second to rinse it off and have it for my dinner, so my cat is a house burglar who sneaks into peoples houses and nicks there dinners.

Ohh and there was a pair of knickers, he is quite the ladies man! 😉 💞💞

To be pissed off with my cat
ToftheB · 05/04/2018 00:02

One of my cats brings in live rats, and lets them go into the house. They’re an absolute nightmare to find and remove.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 05/04/2018 00:03

My cat became a serial mouse killer when ds was little if he got in the house with one he would drop it by ds I was told he was teaching him to hunt Hmm ffs I thought cats were intelligent but it was when ds started crawling

He has bought home a number of birds some have been huge, mice, a
frog and once a huge rat 😭 thankfully it was dead but I had to bleach everything and I had to wash him too which he didn’t like. It gave me nightmares the cat flap was locked from then on. We barely looked at each other for a few days

He hasn’t bought home anything for about a year he is getting on but still tells the birds off from he window and yesterday hissed at a fox who dared to look his way

BitterAndTwistedChoreDodger · 05/04/2018 00:09

My cats are mostly house cats now, but one of my old cats once brought us a whole chicken as a gift. Feathers and all.

I live on a council estate where gardens are non existent, so lord knows how he found it.

rosieposies · 05/04/2018 00:09

These are seriously horrendous 😂😂

OH grew up on a farm and had a huge cat that lived off of a diet of rabbits he caught in their field. Eventually died of diabetes.

Our cat now doesn't bring anything in thank god but she does love to eat gigantic butterflies. Poor little things being all elegant and flying in the sun minding their own business. In the summer she'll often sit there with one in her mouth whilst it flaps away at her face.

Cats are bastards.

diamantegal · 05/04/2018 00:14

My old cat used to bring mice in and hide them - we only used to realise when the smell and flies started to appear.

However, all was forgiven the day we realised there was a rat behind the cooker. Spent the evening trying and failing to catch it and went to bed planning to phone pest control in the morning. Woke up to a dead rat about on the front door mat (it was huge, I made DH get rid of it!).

Haven't let the new kittens out yet, but something tells me the pattern is going to start again...

AltheaorDonna · 05/04/2018 00:14

My ragdoll has been known to run away from butterflies, but on the occasional time he tries to catch a moth he is so ridiculously unco-ordinated and clumsy he never has a chance. When we let him out in the garden he is so huge and flooffy he is about as inconspicuous as a fluffy Hindenberg, and the resident kookaburras alert every bird within 5k. He is frightened of the bin chickens too, but frankly I don't blame him!

penguinsandpanda · 05/04/2018 00:20

I am impressed by the cats that can catch foxes 😱

Mine is scared of mice. She has looked at a squirrel with a door inbetween cat sat watching squirrel, squirrel sat watching cat but that's as brave as she's got. 😻

It took her about a year to step foot in our garden then a dog barked and she nearly had a heart attack.

BlueEyedBengal · 05/04/2018 00:22

Delilah our tiny tabby would come home 3 am and jump in through the bedroom window with a live mouse. (We lived in a bungalow) and played with it the squeak under the bed work us and we tried to catch and save the mouse but Delilah fought it first so growling and dribbling tiny terror had to be sent quickly on a return trip through the window which was swiftly shut

Mincepies76 · 05/04/2018 00:23

My cat is an indoor cat...he has a stuffed fox toy which he "catches" every night and drops by the side of my bed whilst miaowing...strange.
I had a cat before him that killed a whole family of baby birds 😔 and a frog, frogs scream! It's horrible.
Cats are lush really!

Onlyoldontheoutside · 05/04/2018 00:25

We have to rescue cats who luckily are a bit rubbish at hunting.We get the odd mouse or vole and a few fledglings in spring,no cat flap though.
I have done the laying in bed waiting for the crunching sound of a rabbit being eaten in the past and that disorienting feeling that the rug pattern s moving until you realise it is another worm.

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