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how many animals do your cats kill a day

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Joggler · 24/05/2009 14:40

Mine is like the Dr. crippen of our neigbourhood.

one a day atm

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justaboutspringtime · 24/05/2009 14:41

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Joggler · 24/05/2009 14:42

oh god
the bird and I were squaking around the house today.
It is getting dull.
they are like a pincer movement

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justaboutspringtime · 24/05/2009 14:43

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Joggler · 24/05/2009 14:44

Yes
ds wanted to kill a snail yest.
I like snails.

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fruitshootsandheaves · 24/05/2009 14:45

well I don't really know as they don't always leave any evidence. However one of them never kills her catches so we often come down in the morning to 3 cats staring intently at the bottom of the freezer or a bird perched somewhere in the kitchen!!

I would guess, about 3 or 4 a week, mostly mice they don't often catch birds, I'm sure I'd see feathers.

justaboutspringtime · 24/05/2009 14:46

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Joggler · 24/05/2009 14:46

I thought they all bring them in to show oyu.

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chilliNchocolate · 24/05/2009 14:47

I did a thread about this yesterday as my cat having NEVER caught anything in her 2 years has suddenly become THE best hunter I have ever seen - 4 birds in 10 days . She eats them too [vomit emoticon]

I have now bought a collar with a device called "The Liberator" attached which made great claims - it beeps on detecting the pounce motion the cat makes thereby warning unsuspecting prey to get the hell out of it.

48 hours of bliss and then the little darling returned with a bird yesterday morning. I have shut the catflap conservatory window she exits the house by at night. It means added sweltering in the heat but is worth it to stop her hunting at dawn.

justaboutspringtime · 24/05/2009 14:48

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differentID · 24/05/2009 14:48

maybe 3 spiders?

Joggler · 24/05/2009 14:48

Oh...er... ok then.

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fruitshootsandheaves · 24/05/2009 14:49

they do sometimes but if I'm not around they either eat them or let them go to starve and rot under the freezer or flap around the kitchen. At least the youngest one has stopped bringing disembowelled rabbits in through the cat flap!!

Joggler · 24/05/2009 14:49

i think they do.

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chilliNchocolate · 24/05/2009 14:50

My cat has bought hers in but is evicted very rapidly.

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Heated · 24/05/2009 14:52

DD keeps mournfully bringing in insects pinched between her fingers, "Make it well Mummy."

The farm cat catches nothing, just circles the picnic tables, breathing in to disguise growing paunch, scrounging tidbits out of sandwiches.

IotasCat · 24/05/2009 14:54

Mine emptied a nest of fledglings a few weeks back . Not very sporting of him.

I locked him in the downstairs loo (house windows all open) and put them back in the nest, but I fear that they were done for.

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 24/05/2009 15:03

My cat loves hunting insects. Especially in the summer when they fly through the open windows on an evening.

He loves spending long evenings in the bathroom chasing Dragon Fly and Moths.

He is not very good at catching anything other than that. Probably about two mice and one bird over the course of his life.

He did once bring a live bird and release it into the living room in front of my terrier dog and dd1.

Cue lots of "Mummmeeee help the birdie, help the birdie"

MoominMymbleandMy · 24/05/2009 16:08

They catch nothing but they are only about a year old.

The previous pair never caught anything bigger than a spider either, and they lived to be 12 and 16.

I think they thought only common kitties went in for that sort of thing.

RumourOfAHurricane · 24/05/2009 20:57

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CMOTdibbler · 24/05/2009 21:02

We have a record of 7 birds in one day, 6 mice in one day.

Currently we are on a bit of a rabbit phase - which is grim as cat-the-younger eats half of them - from the head down

MamaHobgoblin · 24/05/2009 21:37

My cat is enfeebled and slow now, but in her heyday would bring in 2 or 3 voles a day in summer. Made me v guilty. Worst was when the dead vole she brought in had a bundle of dry grass clutched in its wee stiff arms. She'd obviously hooked it out of its nest and it had grabbed its bedding...

Hasn't had anything this year so far, poor thing. She's ooold.

PurpleOne · 25/05/2009 03:21

Mines only a year old too, so nothing fluttery or with legs yet - but she is a super fly / moth catcher.
So much so, she scratches the wallpaper to peices.

She will just sit there for hours watching. Me tolerating all the buzzing around my head, and she will just pounce and she then gets her protein based meal...

RockinSockBunnies · 25/05/2009 03:25

None - she has a bell on her collar and the birds sit around laughing at her as she jingles merrily wherever she goes!

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