Clueless cat?

[maggiethecat]

Our rescue cat Lola likes being out in the garden but is very cautious. I did wonder when we got her a few months ago if she would bolt when let out but she seems fine just being in the front or back of the house.

She loves bird watching (from inside and outside the house) and I've seen her climb a tree after spotting one but I get the feeling that she wouldn't know what to do to catch one or even if she did what to do with it 😆

Aren't cats instinctively supposed to be able to hunt?

True!

@maggiethecat

Bird TV! Need to look up that channel

Cwtch launches herself at the tv if we put bird channel on , she nearly knocked it over. She also gets excited over ps 4 games

[quote elfycat]@Allergictoironing do we have the same cat?

Mine's got something about his face and eyes that remind me of photos of cats with chromosomal abnormalities. He's stupid, runs full pelt into walls and then looks confused that they didn't move. Clumsy to the point where if he's walking across the top of the bed DH and I cover our heads. it could be from a head injury. I got him after he was thrown downstairs/kicked by previous owner, and that's what they'd admit to in public

Superb mouser and the only cat I've ever owned who can catch birds. It's like he's ALL cat instinct and there's no brain-power for anything else. Lucky for him he's cute and affectionate.[/quote]
Boycat is ex Feral, he, his sister & the rest of the colony were trapped when my pair were about a year old. She's a typical cat - reasonably smart, pretty agile, elegant. He has ben know to wake up & promptly fall off the sofa arm he was sleeping on, fall off the window sill when turning round, and fall off the sofa head first when having his tummy tickled.

He does have a small scar by his whisker pad, and wants that side of his face and that ear scritched more than the other, so I am wondering whether he had a head injury when he was living wild.

I don't get the issue of gifts, as they are indoor only. Partly because ex ferals have been known to run away even after years if they get out, and partly because Boycat wouldn't survive 5 minutes in my own back garden!

QueenPawPaws - she's already taken over the most comfy seats in this house. Not letting her get hold of the tele too

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Bought one of these for the cats for christmas, Cwtch the hunter loves it and plays with fir ages. Rosie the non hunter just runs away

Sorry, maggie, but nothing that beautiful can possibly be clueless; she's like something out of a cat food advert

My two girls are littermates, so I'm not sure how "what mum taught them" works - one's a complete killing machine and the other just watches her. Perhaps she wasn't paying attention in her lessons?

My current cat and her deceased sister have been fearsome hunters....she's on the small side but has even found and brought home dead rats 🙈🤢. However of our former pair of brothers were not! One had no teeth so would catch things he could manage but they were always alive (spiders, although once a giant toad) whereas his brother used to be over enthusiastic and would just chase things screeching at them loudly. I think it depends on the cat.

One of my cats doesn’t seem to have the instincts at all. We kept her indoor for a couple of years because she has problems with her eyes (vets advised and she hadn’t shown any interest, but then she became desperate to go out). From what the shelter said she was also born in a house full of animals and it wasn’t a good situation so mum must have been stressed.

She tries to hunt bless her, but she’s not very good! She jumps up trees in our garden, when there are birds in the trees next door😂. Once a frog hopped out from behind some plant pots and we were both just jumping around like on springs, panicking.

I think she has learned a lot from cat 2, who was a very street wise tom! She didn’t knead until a few months ago, and when she started she did it so awkwardly, just batting around first. She seems to copy boy cat a lot - he sprays a particular plant in the garden and I saw her once with her bum facing the plant, with her tail flitting sideways 🤣 I swear she was trying to spray like her big brother!