Ok, lovely new rescue cat has been toddling outside for around a month now. He's a long haired tabby, year old, very patient with the toddlers and sleeps contentedly on our bed every night.
He is racking up the kill sheet like nothing else though - wrens, fledglings, frogs, mice and this morning - an adult pigeon was dragged into the lounge and slaughtered. Feather city and the 3 year old coming up from cbeebies to tell me that the bird was broken. Cat sitting washing his paws covered in feathers nearby.
I get that it's presents, sharing, bringing love home, natural, instinct etc. I've been neutral with him, encouraging him to take the fluttering, squeaking toys outside to finish off but not telling him off.
But a WHOLE pigeon, in pieces, blood on the carpet again.
Any tips experts? We don't have a cat flap, he stays in at night and goes out in the morning and I ususally leave the back door open when we are in.
I've had cats that hunted before but that was a mouse every few weeks, not this.
HELP.