First or craziest thing your cat brought home?

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This morning our sweet kitten came in with a new friend for the first time...she was carrying (well, hanging out of her mouth) the largest f'ing dragonfly I've ever seen in my life .

What's the first thing your cat brought home? Or the craziest thing they've brought back home?

Not our cat, but when I was very little one Mother's Day we bought my (cat-hating) Mum a pair of very loud, fluffy 70s slippers. Mum left them outside the back door. There was a ring at the front doorbell and the neighbour was there holding a slipper and asking if it was ours. Turns out their cat brought it home proudly as 'prey'.

Baby rabbit. Disembowelled it on the lawn.

Current cat scared of flies.

One of ours has a hobby of bringing us lumps of moss from the garage roof. She's very proud of our moss collection.

A magpie, my cat is tiny so to get the magpie in the 1st place but then managed to get it into the house through the kitchen window, magpie was alive so I then had to remove a live magpie from my home

A Mallard dragged from the pond behind the house

Makeup brushes and those sponge toys you get for padding pools. He graduated to mice, birds (the magpie was the worst), and an occasional frog.

Knickers. Not mine 😂😂😂

Roast potatoes.

2 roast chickens, a lovely pork joint complete with crackling and a full KFC bucket!

My old cat used to collect the elastic bands that postman drop. I had quite a collection.

Small Viking figurine.

A live squirrel.

My gorgeous Siamese cat that was my childhood best friend was a prolific thief and hunter. In his time he brought home:

• a piece of fish in batter, still piping hot clearly nicked from a plate or kitchen worktop. No idea where it came from!

• a collection of football socks, carefully dragged through the cat flap one by one. After the fourth one, we followed him outside to the garden and realised he was travelling across a few gardens to the neighbour who washed the local football team kit, leaping up in the air and pulling the socks off the washing line, then dragging them home through the wet and muddy gardens...

• a large bat which we think he 'caught' whilst it was folded up sleeping. He brought it home, into the kitchen and yowled his 'look what I've got' call. Obviously he had to open his jaws to do that and let the bat go. It started to fly round the kitchen, and with its wings open was really quite large. cat was them not so keen on the bat and his under the table whilst we ran round trying to get it to fly out the window!

That cat really was the biggest character ever.

@ChequerBoard This is brilliant I love Siamese, they're gorgeous. What a character!

A ribbon from a little girls party dress, some pampus grass (one long piece at a time, dragging it in through the cat door - we thought maybe he was making a nest?!) and next door's pet rabbit 🥺

A crinkle cut chip. No idea where he got it from, or indeed why he chose to leave it on the doormat outside the back door for me.

Had been an indoor cat, but once with us decided he was very much an outdoor cat, so set to honing his skills by hunting worms. Must have brought one home unnoticed, as (evidently) some time later moving the sofa to hoover, a large dessicated worm lay revealed.

A mole, baby rabbit, freshly hatched baby pigeons, multiple birds, shrews and mice. 2 x bells on one collar, nothing is a deterent sadly 😥

A stale sandwich in a paper bag and a pan scrub

Various cats over several decades have brought home the following:-

• A plucked pheasant, it was a present for the neighbours so we bought them a couple of large chickens instead for their dinner.
• Baby rabbits for her lazy Tom cat son, she used to bring them home alive and we'd set them free so the cat took to beheading them first.
• Lazy Tom son once caught a pygmy shrew, he sat on it and it nipped him on the arse and it escaped.
• A McDonald's happy toy.
• The neighbours kitten, the neighbours were away for the weekend and our cat was friends with the kitten. The kitten moved in over that weekend and refused to go home again. The neighbours let him stay because he was bullying their older cat. He's still here 10 years later.

A cricket which escaped under the couch

A little pink plastic toy medal...

with a picture of a cat on it

A gammon joint belonging to our neighbour.

Rabbit harness stolen from next door. No rabbit attached! And a pencil. Oh and a hunk of baguette, and once a toy mouse that I didn't recognise, so I assume by that stage Dcat had progressed to burglary of dwellings.

A completely frozen koi carp. In the middle of summer. Still have no idea where he got it from.