Bringing gifts but leaving intestines urgh why?

[FrankoTheWankoMyBoy]

Hello, our youngest cat, a beautiful little female brings back gifts most days. She started off with worms and now we have mice and the odd bird which I hate. Recently I've been finding what looks like intestines such as colon, a brain and other bits of organ. Not eaten but whole, not bloody but clean. Wtaf is this I am getting? Has anyone else had this?
Little brat attached

She only eats the best hits.

Ours always leave a few internal organs for us to find. I think some of them taste bitter so the cats won't eat them.

To be fair when I order a steak I don't want the stomach, brain and intestines on the side 😂 have you been cooking liver recently? Maybe she thinks you like offal?

yeah my cat doesn't like the liver and intestines, I'm quite impressed at how he can separate them from the other bits!

Thanks for the replies I'm laughing here, she's a little minx and can buzz off with the bits she doesn't like
I'm hoping this is a phase and she can even go back to worms if she likes just not the brains etc

@cricketmum84

To be fair when I order a steak I don't want the stomach, brain and intestines on the side 😂 have you been cooking liver recently? Maybe she thinks you like offal?

Yuck and I think she prefers the small babies as I get the larger beasties whole haha x

At least she doesn't leave them intact hopping around the house wondering where on earth the pond has gone.

She obsessed has a refined palette

Think yourself lucky, OP. When my madam is in a huff with me, she will disembowel a mouse or rat and carefully deposit the intestines in a neat coil inside my shoe.
I have learned to check my shoes before putting a foot in now!

Oh my goodness. My cats do this all the time. Today we came across the remains of a recently deceased mouse, including tail, a single paw, and a pile of entrails so fresh that they were still moving.

My cats always leave the intestines.
And usually the paws off mice and beaks off birds.
We average about 3/4 sets of leftovers each night.

@BeautifulandWilfulandDead

Oh my goodness. My cats do this all the time. Today we came across the remains of a recently deceased mouse, including tail, a single paw, and a pile of entrails so fresh that they were still moving.

They are awful sometimes aren't they.

I will never ever forget when i was about 8 or 9 my cat had caught and killed a pregnant rat in our garden. It had started eating it and the babies were all over the path 😢😢

Thankfully current DCat brings live birds and I can usually get them off her, calm them down and get them back out!!!

@TossieFleacake

My cats always leave the intestines. And usually the paws off mice and beaks off birds. We average about 3/4 sets of leftovers each night.

Firstly, I love cats, and I have cats.

That level of killing is appalling - why aren't you keeping your cats in at night?

At one point I had two cats. One of them liked the front end of a mouse, another, the back.
I could never understand why they didn't finish off each other's leavings.... but that's cats for you. 😊

Thank God mine don't hunt. I'd have to burn the house down.

My cat likes to bring in mice and birds and let them loose in the living room so we can hunt together. She's utterly convinced she's doing a really kind thing for us.

Jeez oh I feel so much better reading these especially the intestines in the shoes haha. I have rescued a few mice, birds and a big bird thing with a huge beak my no3 rescue brought in, she's no longer with us due to bullying the middle girl and happy in a home of her own.

@TheSpottedZebra my girl hunts anytime of the day and night, even with double bells on a collar. It's nature I'm afraid.

Ps, I had to change my username because it was too personal so apologies if it confuses. 🐾🐾

My old cat used to have a variety of gifts: sometimes he ate all of the bird except the head, other times he ate the head and left the body while other times he stored dead mice under the sofa for a midnight snack.

My replacement cat, who went to live with neighbours, kills mice which he leaves for his kitty brothers to bring in. I suspect he also eats them as the neighbours say he is gaining weight. (Mice + two meals a day + snacks = weight gain)

My cat does this. He always leaves them in the same place though so we’ve started putting a puppy pad down there. In the morning I can scoop it all up and bin! Little rotter.

P.S. Your little minx is gorgeous!

Thank you @afaloren she is such a joy, we also have a male who was rescued at 6 months, he's not got many teeth and is quite challenged brain wise at times, he stares at walls a lot 🤣 he's healthy don't worry anyone. They are very close and the little huntress cries for him if she comes in and he's snuck in beside us.

@AlfonsoTheDinosaur

My old cat used to have a variety of gifts: sometimes he ate all of the bird except the head, other times he ate the head and left the body while other times he stored dead mice under the sofa for a midnight snack.

My replacement cat, who went to live with neighbours, kills mice which he leaves for his kitty brothers to bring in. I suspect he also eats them as the neighbours say he is gaining weight. (Mice + two meals a day + snacks = weight gain)

We get that, bodies or heads I love cats for their little quirky ways.

@TheSpottedZebra

Because they're cats and that's what they do. There's no point in having cats if they have to stay in all night, in my opinion. They kill through the day too and I refuse to have house cats.
But thanks for singling my post out when there are several people on this thread reporting similar levels of killing.

My big bruiser just plays with them until they're no fun and then leaves the pathetic bodies on the kitchen doorstep. I wouldn't mind so much if he was at least eating part of them.

I found a single, tiny, kidney on the carpet once (put my hand on it when I was playing with my toddler). No idea what/who the original owner was!