to have told the cat there are starving cats in africa?

[juneybean]

He's one of those cats that's not happy unless he's eating, he doesn't have worms or anything untoward, he's just a greedy buggar!

So I just snapped at him.... AIBU?

PS my cats are liars. They do get fed well!

Oh Vallhala - that's quite awful, it made me shudder just to read it.

The fridge queen also has a thing about frogs. They used to be dead when they were 'given' but now they are brought in alive and hop out from under the soft furnishings.

The vet told me that they aren't poisonous and that she's bringing them in for me to practise killing them.

Is this a comment on her current catfood brand I wonder.

Oh, we've had frogs as 'gifts' too alicatte.

Live, hopping behind the sofa, and dead.

Placed neatly in the cats' biscuit dish!

It's kind of nice of them to make some contributions I suppose. The frogs really do make me feel squeamish though.

There have been fewer recently, DH thinks that they are now extinct in our garden and she can't get live ones over the fence from next door.

Our best was a few years back..
DS1 'Mummy there's a bunny behind the sofa'
me 'yes dear'
DS1 'no Mummy there IS..look!'

Sure enough one very much alive baby rabbit! It was blind in one eye (before the cats ) hence I guess easily caught. Pretty much unharmed and chomping on my phone cable!

I popped him in a box with a bag of tesco's mixed salad and released him once it was dark and the cats were shut in!

Usually we just have bird corpses (headless) frog parts and shrews..neatly lined up outside the back door!

Oh and the maine coon brings in litter..crisp bags etc. Then again he was bred for his looks not his intelligence..

My cat brought me home half a scotch egg the other day .

One of mine once brought home through the cat-flap a chicken.

A cooked chicken, stolen from next-door's kitchen surface!

Our other cat, not the fridge queen, once pulled the turkey carcase off the Christmas Lunch Table when we and guests were sitting in the living room drinking coffee. We heard a crash and went in to find her dragging it, with some difficulty, towards the hallway. AND she hissed at us.

YANBU.

AM PMSLing at some of the responses.

Our cat;

1. Won't eat anything but his preferred brand and flavour.
2. Won't eat anything that has been left out for more than 10 minutes.
3. Wants to eat practically every hour.
4. Will not tolerate tardiness on the part of the feeder. You get ONE reminder of him rubbing round your legs, or if he's REALLY hungry, his claws in your arse before he launches an all out assault on your legs.
5. If you have not capitulated to his demands, he pissses off and brings in a rat to teach you a lesson. A big one.

This is the same cat who;

Can manage to keep mud on his paws all the way through the back door, through the utility room, through the kitchen, before wiping them on the sofa/beds etc. Or you, if you're in bed. Many a time I've been woken by a fat muddy ginger cat deciding to share the love at 3 am.

Brings home live "gifts", but mysteriously loses the ability to catch them once they are in the house. That could be because he can't fit his gigantic ginger arse under the sofas.

Drinks out of the toilet, if the lid is left up.

I just do what he wants really, it makes for an easier life.

My cat has not read the book that says cats don't crap in their own back gardens.

DH is developing a deep hatred of her - and i think she knows it. She wees on his leather chair (must feel nice on the botty or something)

Monty lol at Scotch egg. What a hunter!

My cat brings in things that have obviously died of natural causes and have rigor mortis, then tries to pass them off as her own work.

My FIL once noticed that one of his shoes felt a little odd, but being a rather laid-back kind of guy didn't actually get round to investigating for a while. He then discovered that he'd been walking round for the last two days with a dead shrew in the toe....

isthatporridge, I'm wiping away tears of laughter here.

love this one!

(got to watch biddy's link first!)

ali - one of my mum's cats could open the fridge too. For ages my mum was saying stuff was going missing and used to blame me and my sister. Once even asked us if we'd had the raw sausages I was about 8, what was I going to do with raw sausages?

Anyway, eventually she caught the cat in the fridge! cat grabbed some meat and then shut the door by banging her arse onto it.

Two pence, They can just go where they want and do what they want can't they? I'm sorry to say I blamed DS1 too, it never occurred to me that one of the cats was 'foraging' - I dread to think what might have happened. And then we saw fridge queen do it one night when she thought we'd gone out - but it was only two of us and DS1 and I came back into the kitchen. She was lying on the floor using her claws to break the seal.

We had to replace the handles on the internal doors with knobs because the fridge queen managed to learn to open those as well. She's quite a small cat too - well when I say small that's not girth wise.

Lol @ rustybear. I found a dessicated corpse in the 'clean' laundry basket a while back. And a dried-on shrew stuck on the front of the rayburn.

Ours, opens the lid of the cardboard box with the food in, pulls a sachet out with his mouth and brings it over!

Far to intelligent!

BNCP

That is not only intelligent but polite and co-operative too.

See I would give him the benefit of the doubt if he was intelligent...but he really isn't!

Oh dear, I have all this to come with our two kittens

Jamie - and one brought in a big long worm, a WORM! Wuss!

Avad - my kittens are 7 months now and calming down a bit, but they are funny when they're little. They still run round like a herd of elephants though.

Boy cat likes to sit on my right arm when I'm on the laptop. Grrr.

Mine are often sick too. Its just overeating - I mean half a turkey would be too much for a large human.

They are like ancient romans - just eat, eat, throw up, eat, eat, throw up.