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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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cricketmum84 · 28/08/2019 01:28

We had an amazing cat when I was a teenager. He brought home:
Baby socks - hundreds of the things
Half an onion
A jacket potato still wrapped in foil
A cooked chicken leg
The biggest dead pigeon I've ever seen

Never did find out where he got everything from!!

Maria53 · 28/08/2019 01:44

My childhood cat was an old lady when we adopted a young kitten (big mistake but anyway) who was a supreme hunter. Sadly our lovely old lady day could no longer hunt and was clearly a little jealous of the new kid on the block...because one day she presented us with a mouse trap complete with mouse!!! It wasn't our trap and we have no idea where she got it from Grin

Another time my mum woke up and found both our cat and a small mouse asleep on the stairs together. The chase had clearly gone on all night and they needed a rest...

Adollop · 28/08/2019 02:04

My youngest used to bring me twigs and leaves when he was younger, now he's progressed to live moths.

The neighbour's cat pinches clothes from other people's bedrooms and brings them to my garden Shock .. we've had everything from children's pants to big heavy cotton jumpers .. and she's only a tiny cat!

BayTrees · 28/08/2019 02:13

Bay cat brought herself while I was reading this thread. 1:40am and I can't sleep. She announced her arrival with a fanfare of chirps and mews before bouncing onto the bed. She was really looking for Dreamies but the tin is on DH's side and he's fast asleep so she had to put up with some cuddles from me instead. She's now decided that as treats are not forthcoming she's going away again. She likes to bring us in shrews usually. Sometimes dead, sometimes alive so she can play with them. My lovely old boy once brought me half a cooked sausage. He was the prime suspect for the dead mole on the doormat and the dead rabbit on the front path incidents. Old girl once launched herself from the ground into a holly tree and landed back down with a sparrow hawk in her mouth. She let it go when I shouted. Not sure who was more surprised: me, the cat or the bird!

HennyPennyHorror · 28/08/2019 02:18

A smashed parrot. :( we live in oz and our cat has never since killed a bird... But the one she did get was so sad...all these multi colour feathers on the porch and blood.

Pussysgalore · 28/08/2019 04:00

The worst I've had was being woken up by my toddler son saying "mummy, dicky bird!" Repeatedly until I opened my eyes.. I wondered what the hell he was on about until I switched on my lamp and saw feathers and blood and then at the foot of the bed was the most enormous wood pigeon I've ever seen in my life, how they got it through the cat flap I'll never know, my twin teenage boy cats were highly pleased with themselves that day that..
The best was our beautiful little Twinkle running full pelt through the cat flap mewing her head off to announce her arrival with a really big thick slice of really nice ham. With the speed she was running I'm convinced she swiped it of an unsuspecting neighbours plate, who's I never found out though... she certainly hadn't brought it as a present either as any attempt to retrieve it was met with full clawed swipes and menacing growls.. so we left her to enjoy her "kill" 😂

Els1e · 28/08/2019 12:49

My old cat, Eric, was never a hunter and leaves were about his limit. Surpassed himself one year with a Christmas bauble.

Murinae · 28/08/2019 12:56

Mine is a killer queen. Lots of mice dead and alive, birds also dead and alive, a live bat and just this morning we had a dead mole on the doormat. she was most put out when last week the chickens stole a mouse she had killed from in front of her nose!

Sparklfairy · 28/08/2019 13:27

My worst was leaving my bedroom window open one hot night. Cat isn't a hunter and would come in in the early hours and sleep on my bed. One night about 1am I heard her come in and she was bouncing round playing. I thought she was just being weird so started filming her with my phone with the flash on.

She was by my closed bedroom door playing with a live but injured sparrow. I screamed. Mum in the next room screamed what?! I screamed back SHES GOT A BIRD

Mum says 'im not opening the door!'

I couldn't get out. Cat kept looking at the flash which lit up her eyes so she looked like a demon. Swiftly killed the bird before I could do anything and lay comfortably across my door, barricading me in, while she crunched it's bones, taking extra time on its skull Envy

Kept my window closed after that.

showgirl63 · 28/08/2019 13:40

I'll just leave this here.....

Worst/Best present off your cat
BlooperReel · 28/08/2019 16:25

Worst : a pigeon wing, feathers all over the garden but no body Confused

Weirdest: There are a few...
slice of stale bread
vanilla scented wax melt
a christmas cracker
half eaten corn on the cob

showgirl63 · 28/08/2019 16:34

Over the years I've had bats (released in bedroom in middle of the night then caught up in muslin drapes and screaming), slow worms (convinced they were snakes), rats & mice (can't decide if dead and left where I stand or alive to hide under the furniture is more fun) and even a pheasant (how he got that in a cat flap I'll never know) but I think worst was rabbit minus one ear left to hop up and down hall trailing blood until I got in from work.

TrainspottingWelsh · 28/08/2019 19:23

I spotted my neighbours cat earlier and the thread reminded me of its genuinely lovely gifts.

Once it brought home (with it, rather than carrying) a half starved, disease ridden stray to the back garden, and then insisted neighbour came out to help. It turned out to be a cat that had been missing from hundreds of miles away for a few years.

Another time it brought home a kitten that was barely old enough to be weaned and lovingly placed it in the bed beside neighbour. Despite every effort nobody ever came forward and it obviously wasn’t feral or farm born so she still has that present.

cricketmum84 · 30/08/2019 07:04

Not a present but I came down this morning to our hamster zooming round the living room with naughty cat hot on her tails.

Either our cat is a terrible hunter or we have a seriously fast hamster.

Hamster is tucked up safely in her cage again.

KinkyFink · 30/08/2019 10:26

Oh I forgot - my old cat once ate my gerbil whilst I was away at summer camp, and also did a pile of sick with a mouse's head on top.

Magpie hunter cat was caught trying to cram a whole bird's nest through the cat flap once too.

madcatladyforever · 30/08/2019 10:34

My alpha male cat brought in and ate a red breasted Robin on Xmas day. We were outraged.
Another time he dragged in a seagull. I suspect he had found it already dead somewhere.

CMOTDibbler · 30/08/2019 10:47

My current cats are avid hunters, and we are at 4 rodents a night at the moment, with a smattering of birds and the odd baby rabbit.

When we lived in a city, we had a house in one of those long terraces with lower walls between each house, a higher back wall, then an alley, then the mirror of ours - so the cats could go from house to house super easily. Our cat of the time brought home gammon steaks, sausages, bacon sarnies, sometimes still hot. He also found a family of gerbils living somewhere and would return proudly with them. The first time what are now my PIL came to the house he was stood up at the back window (he used to come and go from the top window light) with half a gerbil hanging from it's tail so everyone got a good view of the gerbil corpse banging against the window. He also brought me a live and very angry magpie once

Lellochip · 30/08/2019 11:01

Surpassed himself one year with a Christmas bauble.

Mine's done that too, she's also not a natural hunter lol. Only other thing she's ended up with is a cat toy that I definitely never bought. She did once take in a parcel for me though, so that was useful Grin (unlocked the catflap for delivery driver to pop it through)

HennyPennyHorror · 30/08/2019 11:03

MadCat a festive feast! Shock

RandomMess · 30/08/2019 12:11

Rat in a mousetrap....

There is some random neighbour wondering where his mousetrap disappeared to!

detectivebird · 30/08/2019 12:18

my old lady cat isn't much of a hunter either but i've had a few piles of vomit full of caterpillars. Envy

theemmadilemma · 30/08/2019 12:19

@showgirl63 I'm nicking that.

Over the years I've had many. But the worst was recent. She mainly stays in the bedroom these days and using the window and her cat ladder (don't ask) to go in and out. She bought in a live mouse, up the cat ladder. I didn't know. Then I started noticing she was stalking places in the bedroom. And I started to wonder, but figured she'd get it quickly. (Lazy me)

Stalking seemed to calm down. So I decided I would need to pull out all the furniture and check for dead mouse.

Pulled out a drawer I rarely open. Live mouse eyeballs me on my jeans I'm either to fat/skinny for.

To be fair I pulled everything out, shut her in and it didn't take her long to produce two bodies.

Man they fucked a load of my clothes though.

RandomMess · 30/08/2019 12:21

Ours took on a very much alive seagull and lost! Interested beak mark on his head... after moving house seeing an adult swan parade past our house nearly finished him off as did the day a group of cygnets walking in the front door...

milliefiori · 30/08/2019 12:26

The worst was a slug which he lovingly draped on my cheek while I slept. I woke up when it reached my lips! Close second was a dead mouse which he'd brought for the kids to enjoy. Didn't tell me about it, just dropped it in their toy box with the rest of their playthings.

Best was a river vole. DH and DC were away. DCat and I were alone in the house. He obviously had plans to be out catting all night but night want me to be lonely so he brought me a river vole, really fluffy and cute, not a mark on it. He dropped it in the middle of the living room floor, looked at me, mewed and wandered off. We had a heated debate about whose job it was to catch it, which I lost. He had zero interest in it: my vole, my responsibility. Finally caught it two hours later. But it was very sweet. And thoughtful of DCat to not want me to waste an evening in front of TV when I could be playing chasey with my vole.

SummerOfComedy · 30/08/2019 12:37

Our, not so large, cat brought in a massive 'dead' rat once. It was in the corner of the living room.
I sat looking at this rat for hours with the intention of picking it up and throwing it in the washing machine.
I thought it was a pair of socks.
😆