Hello, new to the board. I'm an experienced cat owner but currently flummoxed and revolted by an incident of bizarre behaviour in one of my pets. We have two year old sisters, Minipuss and Tinycat, adopted from the CPL in June. They've settled in well, get on well with the kids, excellent mousers. Most evenings we receive an offering, either freshly dead, or almost dead, which they bring in and openly share with us - that's fine, it's what cats do. But last night I got into bed and heard a noise from under it, smelt a repugnant odour, and when I investigated found Tinycat guarding the rotting corpse of a rat that had been dead for a long time She must have found it already dead and dragged it in, then hidden with it, which she does not do with her own kills. I've never known a cat to do this - one of the things I hate about dogs is their love of putrefying things and I've always admired cats for being immune to the charms of the long dead. What is going on? Is there something wrong with her (or maybe a Halloween thing!?) I honestly don't think I could cope with this on a regular basis.