To be pissed off with my cat

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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!

My cat once presented me with a Koi Carp. It was massive. She was thrilled however I was petrified of an angry neighbour knocking on my door for about 6 weeks afterwards.

Imagine the mouse problem without our furry little predators.

Mine are indoor cats. Anything that comes in is fair game. Pass a fly back and forwards between them until one gets bored and eats it. Mosquitoes half hanging out of the mouths.
Won’t go near bees/wasps. One comes in cats scream and run away. Will creep back in the room later demanding to know if it’s gone. They played with one once.
They never bring me anything. Just demand food on top of their fresh treats

Mine always bring them in alive. We’ve had to catch mice, sparrows, massive moths and a blackbird. They start making this strange throaty sound though so we can often stop them and mount a rescue mission.

There was a dead mouse once - camouflaged in our long pile rug and I stood on it barefoot.

I also once caught our girl cat trying it on with a hedgehog. We managed to get her indoors before the carnage though, which I think may have been worse for her.

Dh's childhood cat once had a go at a cow! He'd stalked it for ages, pounced and the cow shook him off. He kept trying all day. Stupid cat.

My cat is too lazy to catch anything. Not even the bastard mice who get into the house from the garden and run around. I really didn't think I'd have to pay for a massive ginger fluffy tom and mousetraps. It's lucky he's half cushion so good for cuddling!

Our cat tried to bring a pigeon through the cat flap once. After a bit of banging, she gave up and started to de feather it on the doorstep.
DH went out and wrestled the thing off her and she went nuts at him, proper growling and hissing.
She then glared at him for days.
I also had to practically sit on her when we had a sparrowhawk in the garden. We used to keep finches in a big outdoor aviary and very occasionally we'd get a bird of prey dive in to take a look. This time, the bird landed on the wire with a splat and then flapped about on the lawn for a while. Cigarcat was desperate to get out and have a go at the thing, but I could see how big and sharp its beak and talons were. Cigarcat would not have stood a chance, even with the sparrowhawk a little stunned.
She then sulked under a chair.
She's fifteen now and is far too old and lazy to hunt. Why bother, when she has a machine that dispenses biscuits and a well trained human to get fish out of a can for her.
I'm spoiling her in her old age.

Delilah, tiny tabby was born in a stable so when we got her she was very much feral. It took 6 Months to tame her but she was still very much off her head but when she wanted a fuss she was a sweet heart. There was never a fly or spider alive in our house she would eat them all she was well fed and watered but still piles of mice guts and the squirrels. She disappeared on the night a eagle owl was spotted in the valley. RIP little Delilah tiny tabby ,we miss you .

I had 2 cats the tiny female one would tackle anything. The make was far too lazy.

The reason we got a cat was because the mice that came into our block of flats were outwitting even the pest controller! She has caught a few now, and mice do not dare to cross the threshold! She also chases flies. She practises each evening chasing a lazer pointer provided by her slaves.

My cat has usually has bought home live catch apart from odd mouse and thankfully the one rat which I suspect he found as it was so big. he never eats them though has enjoyed torturing a few mice in the garden allowing them to run off then stamping next in their tail and throwing them up in the air

When he bought live mice in I perfected a way to get rid of them. They would always run under the sofa, once I was able to catch cat he would be shut in the bathroom I would then get the broom to steer the mice out through the French doors never touching them. It always worked apart from with onc brave mouse just as he was about to leave turned around puffed himself up to nearly double his size and made an odd sound at the broom think he was giving the broom a warning

My cat purrs and he does smile and look very smug when he brings something home regardless of my reaction

I don't have cats any more but the tiniest, sweetest cat I ever had was also the most vicious hunter. She killed a magpie while the magpie's mate was trying to kill the cat, the cat didn't give up.

Her record was 3 starlings in about 6 hours. For some reason, the starlings were always brought in alive. As I'm bird phobic, this was pretty traumatic and I had a reciprocal arrangement with an arachnophobic neighbour regarding the removal of the things we feared.

One day I came home from work and there was yet another live starling on top of the kitchen cupboards. Neighbour was on holiday and I couldn't get hold of anyone else, but luckily there were a couple of police officers visiting a house a few doors down.

I sat in my car and waited for them to come out, and then asked them if they'd mind getting rid of the starling. They were very nice and obliging and didn't appear to mind me being such a dick.

And for anyone who thinks cats are vicious, you wouldn't believe what a pair of terriers can do with a sloworm. Suffice to say they treat them like a tuggy toy ...

My girl catches squirrels and leaned the brush on the mat. I have no idea what happens to the rest of it

Cats are cunts.

Wait for the live (but traumatised) baby rabbits... One bastardcat excels in live gifts: previous specials have included bats and a very pissed off weasel.

Other bastardcat consumes all but the stomach/bowels and leaves those as a gift at the bottom of the stairs so she can be sure the first person down, barefooted in the morning, won't miss it.

One of my cats brought a live mole into my house. I didn't discover it until i went to find out why they were both staring into a roll of lino I had resting on the stairs (to put down in the kitchen). Little mole head came snuffling out and flipper hands waving around, I had to phone my dad to come and deal with it. Same cat also killed a stoat. Remaining cat is an indoor cat now.

How can anyone like cats after reading this thread? And to want one as a pet!?
I imagine this thread would go down a lot different if it was about all the animals dogs had killed (or half killed) and brought into the owners house.

Many years ago, a local cat, referred to by us as “the ginger boss” nicked our leg of lamb. We’d had a meal from it, so most of it was left, saw a tail disappearing out of the kitchen window and then later on, thought, “where the fuck has that leg of lamb gone?”

Our lad did once bring a live magpie in through the cat flap and up two flights of stairs. We heard him running about in the study above our bedroom, all night.
Next day I heard a cackle and went up to investigate. I nearly shat myself when I saw a huge magpie and the cat eyeballing each other in a standoff.

We had a family cat that was absolulely tiny but a serious killing machine. Her tally throughout her life would have been horrific and made any conservationist feel sick.
The ones that really shocked me were the cygnet (I think it was an adolescent... it was bigger than her) and the seagull that tried taking off with her attached to it.

The other cat we had at the time was far lazier. Baby birds from nest boxes, baby rabbits that were probably too sick to outrun him. And then one day, he got the prize of all catches... a hare. Next doors dog barked once at him and he dropped it. I saw it run away from him and it was just a blur.
The dog was probably getting revenge for years of torment from our cats.

My elderly neighbour made friends with a robin, who used to come and sit on his head or hand and be fed bread every day. He was ever so upset when the robin 'disappeared'.

I didn't dare tell him

I've found the only thing that helps is trying to keep the killing machine in at dusk and dawn - to protect the wildlife, but also to protect him, because he keeps getting beaten up by other cats, and those are the top fighting hours.

But in the end, a cat's gonna do what a cat's gonna do. My dd's dad was horrified when his new cat started bringing him presents - he lives in a top floor flat.

I don't own a cat.

Dead mice keep showing up on my kitchen doorstep.

Does thus mean a cat is trying to look after me?

I have never been so grateful that our two cats are both quite lazy and dim - their combined catch comes to a grand total of one slug that they thoughtfully spread over the entire conservatory (but which, judging by the trails, had made its own way into the house, so arguably they acted in self-defence). They aren't allowed out at night, though, which maybe (alongside their natural indolence) makes a big difference?

This is why I don't have a cat flap - it does make you a slave to them though. And it takes you unawares when the patio door is open in the summer.

I'm so lucky mine can only catch leaves to bring me!!
He does however use me as target practice whilst walking DD up and down to sleep 😴

Mine has never been a great hunter. We've had him 10 years and his best catch was the plants from the neighbours' pond which he dragged across the road, through the cat flap and dumped on the bedroom floor! He also went through a stage of catching earthworms and used to bring them in dangling from his mouth looking like a huge moustache!

Cats should be kept in overnight. Not only you reduce the murdering but also be a use that is when they are most likely to get run over.