My Cats wont stop bringing in animals!!

[chloemegjess]

I know cats are meant to catch mice etc but it has suddenly become constant. This morning, my DH came down to find a dead mole on the kitchen floor and this afternoon, there was a blue tit in my dining room (dead). It is gross! I am starting childminding soon and cant have dead animals all over the place!

What if they bring something in during my inspection on wednesday!?!

Its gross, is there anything I can do. I am pretty sure it is the same cat every time, and she throws mice etc right into the air.

Your lucky they bring in dead ones, mine bring in live mice and it takes forever to catch them. Don't think you can stop them, kinda get used to it after a while.

They are doing it for you, as a present! Can you confine the cats to one room (cat flap room) during the night so there will be no spreading around of the animals.

Mine used to do it, they got fed up in the end. One would go out and get mice and bring them up to the bedroom and miaow really loudly until we woke up to show up what he had got. Of course, the mouse would still be alive so there would follow frantic mouse chasing and removal at 3am.

The worst if when they kill and eat them and leave entrails around the room. [barf]

They also went through a stage of bringing in earthworms and leaving them on the floor. Lazy bleedin' cats.

Are you pregnant?

De-activate the cat flap. Make ';em wait until you have opened the door and crack, seen their mouth is empty befor eyou let them in

Put a bell on their collar to warn of their approach to small critters

I think you should let them bring friends home.

Colditz I was about to ask the same, my cat bought things in all throughout my pregnancy.

How about a sign, 'Living friends only'

I have just gone through to the back room and on my new new rug, there is all the insides to a bird. About 2 ft away from it, there is the birds feathers, bones etc. Litterally, the putter bit looks like its alll there, untill you look next to it and all its guts etc are in a pile on my rug!! I have a baby - surely this cant be good for her? Its gross. Now I dont know what to do as I cant face clearing up all the guts (nearly vomitted when I saw it, but DH wont be home till 11.30.

Could be worse. You could have a rotten egg full of maggots in your small child's bedroom.

Oh and no I am not pregnant, I have a young baby though and are TTC. They didnt bring me anything while I was pregnant, but one of them had an obsession with licking my tummy, which started about a week before I even found out!

and they keep loosing their collars with bells!!

My cat has three bells to try and stop him catching mice/birds etc, it sounds like Christmas Eve when he runs, but he still manages to catch stuff, although very rarely, thank goodness!!

My three cats once brought in 11 dead animals during the course one one day. I can only sympathise.

My cat used to do this

He was trying to bring home goodies for mommy until one day (we lived on a boat) he came in from the hatch above my sleeping head and plopped a dead bird on my pillow.

I could tell he was beside himself with joy all puffed up and preening. I screamed and freaked! That was not the reaction he was hoping for...

I am not sure how he got it...but he has never brought home anything dead again. Now he hunts for fabrics...He would go on other peoples boats and bring me back towels and clothes lol

He also does this with blankets and clothes in the house. When he dose it I show him praise and so now that is all he does. (I always returned the cats nicked items!)

Mine take MY clthes, and put them in their cat litter!!!

chloe!

Mine also lose their collars and bells to the point where I was buying one a week and had to give up. replacing that many collars for 2 cats is madness. And then there were the name tags as well [shakes head]

my cat is a supreme hunter, we no longer get much in the way of mice, once got 4 in 12 hours, as he must have cleaned them all out. So now we get rabbits... sometimes all I find is a string of foetuses... so immaculately clean that i swear he must have opposable thumbs or be able to use a scalpel

I got fed up of coming downstairs and standing in entrails that were camoflaged on my persion rug so he's banished to the kitchen overnight. This involves covering the kitchen table evernight as he would just sleep on the table cloth otherwise [boak] Why do they make so much work for us????

Sometimes, if he's really a PITFA he gets bansished to the teensy back hallway, but now he's ripped the catflap off that door so he can get back in the kitchen, unless I put something big and heavy in the way....

Oh how I'd love to go back to the days when he just brought home twigs.

My other cat (Ella RIP) used to bring home worms and then there were a few pigeons. How she got them through the cat flap I've no idea!