Friend or prey

[Justusemyname]

Our cat is three and we have had her almost two years. Two weeks ago we got baby piggies. She likes to watch them and wants to share her toys with them. Mean and evil DH says she wants to eat the piggies. I think I need expert advice and a vote.

Yes, I remember reading the autobiography of Dave Courtney. His missus's cat ripped his poor little Caiman in half after he put them face to face as an "experiment". However, one of the times he got arrested, the police shoved him face-down in a used litter tray.

Tut Tut, Mantra. You mean he 'tripped while the constabulary were in the room and inadvertently fell face down' ?

They wouldn't be allowed together, I am talking about safety of the cage.

Talking of the men, DS did leave the cage open as he said I'd called him for tea . He wouldn't be cruel though. He was just forgetful.

You'll just have to remember for 2 then. (Or 3 or whatever.)

As my granny would have said 'Forgetful is as forgetful does.'

Our cats would definitely file guinea pigs as "breakfast" (or, more accurately, "plaything and then breakfast when it unaccountably stops playing")

Rabbits more debatable. They do catch baby bunnies but adult pet rabbits can stand up for themselves. My most hunter-killer cat ever tried to take on a pet bunny that I was bunny sitting (other cat had let them out to play ) and got kicked. From then on she refused to acknowledge the existence of the rabbits at all. Aforementioned other cat was spotted a few years later having pinned down next door's rabbit, who was out on their lawn - and she was determinedly washing his ears for him

My less interested cat did take out a squirrel once....

I'm sure that was their version Cozie.

I'm loving the image of a cat washing a rabbit in a determined fashion.

One of my friends had a "cabbit". He used to hang out with her cats and try to shag them. If she was sun-bathing in the garden, he'd bounce past, and manage to, ahem, jizz on her. Stealth spunk.

Bleugh at the amorous rabbit.

DCat would "mother" anything that would let her - I am sure she viewed DS as a particularly slow kitten. The rabbit was lop eared and I think the whole ears trailing on the ground thing really bugged DCat - they clearly needed a good wash

My mother bred lops and would frequently allow the big bucks (some 20 lbs live weight) out on a lawn for some sunshine. Nary a dog would have gone near them what with those rear leg kicks - even my mother was a tad tentative.

PS - and I'm pretty sure that a cat wouldn't have even thought about it.

The cat I get up with used to kill and eat full sized rabbits. He was a powerful hunter though, more so than any other cat I've had.

The man down the road used to breed them in the back garden, with no cages or protection of any sort.

Well all rabbits can deliver a pretty mean kick if they have their wits about them so a cat would have to be a pretty darned fine hunter to get one.

Oops, that should say the cat I grew up with.