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Worst/Best present off your cat

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Catbrat · 27/08/2019 00:06

I'm guessing this has been asked at some point before but what is the best and worst 'present' your cat has ever left you.

My worst would have to be a giant rat left on my sofa, never seen one like it, I was huge! I think I scrubbed the coating off the couch after that one!
The best, the neighbours baby rabbit, alive, not a scratch on it, had to take it back and apologize, I was so embarrassed! Also had a alive frog left on the sofa, also not a mark on it, just sat there chilling Grin

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serenoa · 27/08/2019 06:09

I was listening to a late night concert on headphones, the only light on was a table lamp in the opposite corner. After the concert I got up, turned around, and just missed stepping on a full grown, huge dead rat. It was a handsome beast, black coat as shiny and smooth as the beast that brought it in, but dead. An unforgettable experience, unfortunately. :-(

DCat could only have got that through the cat door because it's a large cat/small dog sized door; the late Tyson was well named.

Celticdawn5 · 27/08/2019 06:18

One of our cats brought in a Yorkshire pudding once and was very pleased with himself
We’ve also had a hot cross bun which I then lobbed over the garden hedge onto waste ground to dispose of, only for it to re appear the following day

Jesaminecollins · 27/08/2019 06:21

Came back off holiday to find a dead baby mouse in my bag

Horribly trueSad

Celticdawn5 · 27/08/2019 06:21

The worst things are coming home to a houseful of feathers and pigeon carcass with blood splatters up the walls

Yogagirl123 · 27/08/2019 06:22

My ginger girl, would often bring me washing pegs, but also had my share of frogs, not so pleasant.

Jesaminecollins · 27/08/2019 06:30

I have had a couple of squirrels and a baby rabbit.

The worst thing was when the council were digging up the sewers in the next road and my cat brought me a whole family of rats, mom,dad and kids all dropped on my patio waiting for me. I shouted to my husband that Felix has caught some rats can you remove them and he said don't exaggerate Jesamine do you mean mice? He then saw the family and said I'll get me gardening gloves and a bin bag.Grin

greentheme23 · 27/08/2019 06:34

A dead headless bird located under the sofa. Found because it started to smell!

surlycurly · 27/08/2019 06:35

Had one cat who brought in all sorts: frogs, ducklings, random river birds and a red squirrel Shock. But the oddest was a raw pork chop. I still have that photo- he was very pleased with himself!

Milliways · 27/08/2019 06:37

A huge dead rat left in DS’s downstairs bedroom.
A squirrel leg and tail - the rest including the head had been eaten.
An intact mole, obviously didn’t like the texture.

Way way too many shredded wood pigeons!

MissPollyHadADolly19 · 27/08/2019 06:43

Worst has to be a pigeon, outside my bedroom door so you can guess the first thing I trod on!
Best thing was a collection of donner meat and remnants of fried chicken stashed in a corner, obviously found someone's dumped takeaway!

beatriceprior · 27/08/2019 06:56

One cat used to bring in snail shells and hide them under the sofa

StarWanderer · 27/08/2019 07:32

One cat brought in almost all of the buds off my rhododendron. Confused

ayupducky · 27/08/2019 07:37

I can't think of a 'best present' because they're all truly horrible...

Mice (dead or running around)
Parts of mice (head, tail, legs, giblets)
Birds (dead of flying around)
Parts of birds (see parts of mice for details)
1 frog
2 robins (dead and not included in bird section due to the complete barbarity of killing a robin!!)
1 bat
Butterflies (wings flapping outside his mouth, body inside his mouth)

On top of this he terrifies our 37kg Labrador on a daily basis.

How can something so small and loveable be so horrible at the same time?! Confused

MaidenMotherCrone · 27/08/2019 07:38

Cat 1.....bats & moles
Cat 2......live adult pheasant (through cat flap too)

Current cats...... rabbits, lots of rabbits..... all sacrificed and their remains arranged outside of bedroom doors. Head here, foot there, entrails through the bannister.

They are bastards!

chemenger · 27/08/2019 14:30

Best - uninjured baby rabbit, returned to the field from which it came.

Worst - either the uninjured but seriously annoyed adult magpie brought through the catflap into the kitchen or the very lively mouse brought to me when I was in bed with flu and tucked under the duvet with me.

Sparklingbrook · 27/08/2019 14:35

No really good ones, but we had a summer of her bringing back slow worms. She would come running down the garden with what looked like a big droopy moustache.

greentheme23 · 27/08/2019 15:13

Very sad to hear of red squirrel being caught.

serenoa · 27/08/2019 18:15

Going right back to my childhood and my first cat, one morning he brought in a piece of fish fried on one side. Dad checked DCat's face and front feet for any signs of burns, but there weren't any. .

Another day, Dad looked out of the kitchen window and said 'The cat's eating our bacon'. Mum: 'We haven't got any bacon'.

Sadly he died of cat flu as a five year old; there wasn't a vaccination for it back then, this was mid-1950s.

ithinkmycatistryingtokillme · 28/08/2019 00:27

A live bird in our bedroom!

YesQueen · 28/08/2019 00:40

A leaf which he brought from the garden in his mouth and put at my feet with much shouting about it. That's the only thing he's ever brought me except for a crisp packet he dragged out the bin to me and then sat looking expectant for praise
I'm aware my cat is not the most normal Grin

BoopBoopedooBoo · 28/08/2019 00:50

Best: I had a kitten, very tiny thing even when grown, quite feral in nature but he would bring me dead leaves when he was a kitten.

Worst: the little shit somehow got a huge koi carp from two fences over, and brought it in through the cat flap. It was returned quickly in a bowl of water

chickenyhead · 28/08/2019 00:58

The neighbours 2 homing pigeons...

KinkyFink · 28/08/2019 01:16

I have 2 - both horrendous but one mildly funny at least.

First was a mouse, skinned, with lots of little foetus mice in a trail leading away from the body 😭 so grim.

Second was a magpie, he somehow got it through the cat flap leaving a trail of blood, it must've got away and smashed its way around the kitchen, leaving broken glass, everything knocked off windowsills including plants, shit in the sink and on the counters, blood sprayed up the cream cupboards. Then a trail of shit up the stairs where stbexh heard tapping and went up there to find the massive magpie perched on the bathroom door. He was too afraid (ha!) to try and evict it so he opened the window and shut it in the bathroom. By morning it had gone, after shitting all down the mirror. Glorious 🙄😂

NC4Now · 28/08/2019 01:18

Mine don’t hunt but the kitten did a poo on my sheepskin rug this week.

TrainspottingWelsh · 28/08/2019 01:27

Worst was when I was really ill with flu and both brought get well soon presents. I woke up half delirious in the twilight to find a dead hare about an inch from my face, and the rest of the bed resembling the animals of farthing wood rewritten by Stephen King. Mice, rats, voles, birds big and small, a rabbit, a squirrel and a selection of bones, fur and feathers where one had evidently decided to start without me. Combined with the gifts of the other less proficient hunter, which included a selection of random bits of plastic, most of dd’s sylvanian families, a duster and some dog biscuits, with a very alive and unharmed squirrel I later found on top of the wardrobes.

Best was probably an old £5 note on a windy day. And most impressive a huge dead fox. I have no doubt that even lethal killer cat couldn’t take on a fox working in a pair. Not to mention it didn’t have any obvious sign of death or injuries. But still, both obviously thought I’d like it, but had to admit defeat and get me to come and admire it in situ after they’d clearly dragged it about 6’ and realised that something that weighs 4x more than the pair of you isn’t going to make it home. I’m sure they thought I went back with a wheelbarrow to take it inside myself.