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?

Just came on to say a live adult magpie. Quite superstitious so I was raging with him. Pest.

We have two cats. Their hunting prowess extends to (and things that have been brought into the house!);

• a live mole
• a live Snipe (bit like a curlew but their beak is straight!)
• lizards
• leaves
• live rabbits
• live mice
• live shrews

Today's gift from our kitten... She was very excited about this one!

What is it?

The pointy end is the head and the green shit (blood?) came out of it

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Today's gift from our kitten... She was very excited about this one!

What is it?

The pointy end is the head and the green shit (blood?) came out of it

Ah, Elephant Hawk Moth!

Wilma used to being home all sorts.
Leaves, sticks, food, neighbour’s washing. Best was a koi carp bloody great thing no idea how she managed it.
Titania would have 4/5 mice/shrew things a night all lined up in a nice row on the door mat.

A dead mouse…in a mouse trap! God knows how they had manoeuvred the mouse trap through the cat flap!

My old boy once sauntered in with a chameleon I persuaded him to drop it and took it outside and gently placed it out of harm's way; the poor thing was so terrified it hissed at me!

I had one cat bring in a garden snake. He lived under the sofa for a week before I caught it.

Woke up to a coy carpe on the kitchen floor a few years ago

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Woke up to a coy carpe on the kitchen floor a few years ago

That should have said 'Koi' carp. It was one of those big expensive Japanese fish anyway. He brought in more than one as well...

A brace of pheasant

Lupin stole a squeaky dog paper from next door’s garden. They’ve moved now, but had a big German shepherd who was a bit of a wimp and Lupin loved nothing better than to sit atop the fence with his tail gently swooshing down their side.

A crab.

Although I have lived decades on small islands, this was a first. Dead. I left it out there as it is quite ornamental.

The other exceptional offering was a HUGE rat. Cat sized. When I was new here the cats cleared all the area of rodents. Never seen one that size before..

My last cat's first "gift" was a pine cone with a stalk. In his defence it was mouse shaped. He went on to become a very prolific hunter and his greatest prize was a rare Grey partridge that the local landowner was trying to reintroduce

Bitch Cat bought home our neighbour's Christmas Door wreath bit by bit last year. She has a fancy for large pine branches and pine cones.

Boycat's very first gift to us, when he was 11mo old, was a pigeon. He dragged it up the path, past a load of workmen (who were killing themselves laughing) and into next door's garden. Then over the fence, and finally in our (open) back door. Feathers everywhere. Since then we've had rats, pigeons (inc a racing which was alive and had a very appreciative owner when I phoned!) and yes we too have had a baby magpie.

It was not alive for long. We then got a very pointed lesson in not pissing off magpie parents. They dive-bombed the cat for about 3 months every time he went out. He hasn't caught another one.