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cat getting too wild?

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tigi · 29/05/2007 19:18

Hi, my cat (aged 1.5) ate a whole (yes whole) rabbit yesterday. Fur and all. Nothing left - not that I've found anyway! She brought it to my back door, which was fortunatly closed (!) and ate it there. gag. I feed her often. She is a bit fussy to me (but not 2 younger children or dh) and ds age 12. And rather timid. My mum says she shouldn't eat rabbits like this, and is getting wild... is she right do you think? Shall I keep her in more, which seems a shame, as we live next to fields. She often catches mice to play with (sometimes eats) and birds for the fun of it. Got her a collar, and it makes no difference! Any advice? Thanks

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BandofMothers · 29/05/2007 19:20

Ask your vet, you don't want her getting feral with your dc's.
Seems strange tho. Does the collar have a bell??

BandofMothers · 29/05/2007 19:21

She could be really hungry, is she done or could she be pg??

ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:21

Your mother things your cat is WILD? Because she eats small animals? What's going on? What does she expect her to do, get a manicure?
Sounds standard cat to me isn't eating things on the back doorstep part of their job description tigi?

ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:23

BandofMothers - oh, is this untypical cat behaviour? I don't know. But I'd be more concerned if tigi's cat was going to the library and taking out russian novels or something.

BandofMothers · 29/05/2007 19:24

Actually my mum's cat often gets birds even pigeons, as did my old cat.
Suppose a small rabbit isn't any different. Harder to catch I would've thought.
They will often bring them back to the house as a gift for you.
I kid you not

shonaspurtle · 29/05/2007 19:24

My friend's cat ate a whole magpie. Well, not the whole thing, he left the beak .

He's the biggest, softest homebody around. Your cat is normal and not a risk to your dcs in any way. A whole rabbit though, am impressed!

BandofMothers · 29/05/2007 19:25

LOL 100X. Suppose not really. Responding more to what her mum said really, then thought about the time my cat turned up with a giant headless pigeon.[YUK]

ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:27

I don't want anything to think I'm obsessed or anything, but there's this lady in durham having trouble with these awful crows. I think you two should lend her your ravenous felines

Am intrigued tigi - why would giving your cat a collar stop these feral instincts, does it have a bell on? My brother's cat has a bell on its collar and lives its live in a state of constant frustration!

littlerach · 29/05/2007 19:28

My cat catches and eats mice, varous birds and anything else that it can get. It eats them whole, and onlt leaves th elegs of brifds and the gall bladder of a nmouse or vole.
Think it is normal really.

once ours got a bat.

ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:28

When I say 'anything' I mean 'anyone' but then again, there are a lot of animals on mn at the moment I notice. There is probably a dog right now, trying to think up an amusing nickname.

littlerach · 29/05/2007 19:29

Bells don't work for ours - he pulls them off and loses te hwole collar. we kept finding him with a paw stuck under the front of the collar ansd realsied that was what he'd been doing.

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tigi · 29/05/2007 19:29

She has brought a rabbit in the house before, but I think she wanted to play with it. Completely unharmed.
She has been done, so not pregnant.
She does spend all day outside, 7 -7, but I kep her in at night as foxes are about (although on second thoughts maybe it should be THEY who are worried!)She is only a tiny little cat - the rabbit wasn't much smaller than her!

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ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:30

I'm loving these cats.

j20baby · 29/05/2007 19:30

mine brought home a cooked chicken the other day, and left some of it on the doorstep, she was most disgusted i had disposed of it when she went back!

is she pg Tigi?

mine is feeding kittens, so she is very hungry, she's partial to fresh bread, cake and scones, as well as other peoples sunday lunches

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tigi · 29/05/2007 19:31

sorry should have said the collar has a big noisy bell on it. After she caught 3 birds in one day,I bought one. i stood in the shop listening to the loudest one!

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ntsmum · 29/05/2007 19:31

lol at 'get a manicure'! Our cats once left a headless moorhen under our bed.

ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:32

Well, I like the ones killing the birds etc.
Tigi are you suggesting she's playing with the rabbit - as in a playdate - or as in torturing the rabbit before going in for the final kill?
My brother's cat (you will notice I am mentioning this cat a lot, it is the ONLY one I know) catches flies, because of that darn bell, and tortures them.

ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:33

j20baby - run this by me again, did you say your cat came back with a COOKED chicken?

BandofMothers · 29/05/2007 19:35

My mum's cat is a tiny little skinny siamese, and it is a true hunter.
My sister's cat killed all her gerbils when he was 3 mths old. He used to leave dragon flies on the doorstep for her. They were huge and we don't know where he found them. Now he's about 12 he just sleeps in the garden

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tigi · 29/05/2007 19:36

The first rabbit I suspect was a plaything, it was behind my settee. Maybe i saved it before she finished it off, but she must of carried it in so gently as not a mark on it. When she catches mice she kills them, and bats them around with her paw before sometimes eating them. She has carried birds in too, the same way. It's just lately she has started killing and catching more in the same day. My neihbours cats don't behave like this.

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ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:36

Your sister's cat Bandofmothers sounds like a serial killer. Did it have a key to the cage?

ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:37

No neither does my brother's cat (this cat doesn't seem to do much at all now I think of it, NO CHARACTER if you ask me). Your cat has attitude, which is good I think.

ahundredtimes · 29/05/2007 19:38

Shonaspurtle - did your friend keep the beak?! I would have.

tubismybub · 29/05/2007 19:40

my cat brought home another cat's tail a while back. she's not wild but definately tapped

BandofMothers · 29/05/2007 19:41

LOL, no she had 3. One escaped and was slaughtered. Then it knew where they lived so he knocked off the cage and rattled it around til it came open.
He used to watch my brothers rats with a very greedy look in his eye. Much like my mum's cat does now.

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