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AIBU?

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if I HATE my cats?!

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bohemianbint · 04/04/2008 14:33

Ok, yeah, probably. But they left the bottom half of a mouse on my kitchen floor this morning and I've spent the whole day in fear of finding (or worse, of DS finding) the top half. I had to get rid of it myself because DP had already gone and it was a nightmare; DS wouldn't be put down and I had to hold him and stop the cat escaping from the kitchen into the rest of the house with dismembered rodent in tow.

Disgusting creatures.

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cornsilk · 04/04/2008 14:35

Better to find half a mouse than see a full one running out from under the fridge though.

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bohemianbint · 04/04/2008 14:36

Jesus. I guess so.

One night DP came home, picked up his jeans to put on and a live mouse ran out of the leg. I thought he was having a heart attack when I heard the shouting!

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bohemianbint · 04/04/2008 14:37

I really am a lot less fond of them since I had DS.

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sarah293 · 04/04/2008 14:37

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bohemianbint · 04/04/2008 14:38

riven - if mine start that caper they're straight into a burlap sack.

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duchesse · 04/04/2008 14:47

I hate all cats.

So not at all unreasonable I say.

PuppyMonkey · 04/04/2008 14:48

I hate my cat too. His nickname is Shit Head. Complete git.

scorpio1 · 04/04/2008 14:49

i hate my cat. she wants to sleep in my as yet unborn baby's pushchair

Miggsie · 04/04/2008 14:51

YABU!
If you invite a cat to live with you you have to accept their bizarre cat morals and standards.
Leaving half eaten prey is a sign of extreme affection as your cat is trying to teach you to fend for yourself in the wild by showing you safe eating animals!

Just like when my cat bites my head he is actually grooming me and has acecepted me as part of his social group, an honour.
Bastard

chunkychips · 04/04/2008 14:51

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bohemianbint · 04/04/2008 14:58

Their little foibles weren't such a problem pre-child. Now though, they sleep in his cot, fight outside his bedroom door when he is asleep, knock clean nappies off the radiator and wipe their muddy paws on them and just generally make me want to casserole them. It's a good thing I'm veggie.

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ScarletA · 04/04/2008 15:01

Mouses trousers on the kitchen floor. Nice. My cat only tortures them for HOURS. At least she doesn't eat their heads.

But better dead mice than live ones, hey?

Deux · 04/04/2008 15:03

My sympathies. I have a love hate relationship with our cat. I call him Piss-off-cat. He's a prolific hunter but most of his catches are still very much alive when he brings them in. Recently had to take DS's bedroom apart so that I could catch mouse.

Last summer it was frogs. Went into the kitchen late one night in the dark, switched on light and screamed my head off at humungous frog/toad croaking in middle of floor. Daren't go barefoot.

Do bells on collars really work? Am seriously considering rehoming as can't cope with the rodents and baby due in summer. Should I close the cat flap so he has to wait to be let in thus allowing me to see if he's caught anything?

Advice appreciated.

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bohemianbint · 04/04/2008 15:04

My cats have bells. They still manage to kill stuff. It's ok in the winter, it's just from now things get minging. You could try locking them out and frisking them on the way in, but they might get cross and leave.

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WigWamBam · 04/04/2008 15:05

Our cat bought one in on Monday, and dh got her to drop it in the spare bedroom. Then he couldn't catch it.

It's still there. It keeps nicking the bait from the humane trap without setting it off so we know it's not decomposing somewhere ... it's no good setting the cat on it because she's a useless hunter (we get one or two a year; I suspect she lies down and opens her mouth, the mouse thinks it's his hole and runs in) and can't polish the little buggers off when she does catch them (no teeth, no brains).

I think I would rather have the mouse trousers on the floor and be able to get rid of it than spend a week hunting for the bloody thing ...

barnstaple · 04/04/2008 15:08

Our cats give us frogs and worms to play with.

When dd was born we had 3 cats; they were all very protective of her and terribly concerned when she cried: they would come and perch as close to me as they could while I held her and put their paws comfortingly on whatever bits of her they could reach and purr loudly at her. It was terribly sweet. (Cat behavioursists - I know in Cat World they were probably doing some sort of ritual to kill noisy monster, buy hey I'll anthropomorphise however I want to!)

PuppyMonkey · 04/04/2008 15:08

We've withdrawn cat flap privileges with our Shit Head. He's now either in or out at our discretion.

Lord knows what we're gonna do come summertime when the back door is open a lot though...

waffletrees · 04/04/2008 15:09

I actually love cats (don't have one at the moment) but I could quite happily throttle the cat who does the biggest poos in history in my garden.

barnstaple · 04/04/2008 15:10

Deux, your cat is trying to teach you how to survive. He's immensely proud of you since you caught that mouse, and may believe you are ready for bigger prey. Did you eat it?

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bohemianbint · 04/04/2008 15:11

This thread has cheered me up.

It does make me laugh that one of the only sentences DS can string together is "go 'way cat!" - said with real feeling.

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sweetkitty · 04/04/2008 15:14

I hate my three right now they are mostly indoor cats so no half mice thankfully.

One of them goes out, immediately wants back in (we don't have a cat flap) this goes on all day in out in out. They spit cat food on the floor, dusty footprints all over my clean floor. When they pee it comes out the litter tray (even though we have a covered litter tray), muddy footprints on clean duvets, cat hairs everywhere, eat too much food and sick it back up, nothing better than your first job in the morning is cleaning up piles of cat sick. Chase each other up and down the stairs at 3am.

Cats argh more hassle than the children.

PuppyMonkey · 04/04/2008 15:18

Ah, yes. That awful moment when your cat starts making vomit noises and you know any minute, any minute, he's gonna throw up all over yer new cream carpet. And you rush to grab him and sling him outside, but it's too late...

Deux · 04/04/2008 15:25

Barnstaple, oh no! I'm encouraging the cat! I do keep whispering 'blue cross' in his ear ....

MrsPuddleduck · 04/04/2008 15:26

We are getting a kitten in a couple of weeks......you lot have just really put me off the idea.........

popcornprincess · 04/04/2008 15:39

The cat I've had for 6 years is going to a new home next week . He is a royal pain in the arse and drives me mental. He was a different cat before dd came along now he is so demanding and clingy - yes , cat clingy - weird but I swear he's a dog trapped in a cats body. He even wakes us up at night with this horrible mewing noise. Anyway, I've had enough of him and the final nail in the coffin was when dd who is 2 said 'f**k off' when the cat got on her bed - oops, she can only have got that from me

I've found him a loving home with no kids so he can get all the attention he craves.

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