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Cat keeps bringing dead rats and mice home

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ErmIDontKnow · 09/08/2022 11:07

He has a tinkly bell on his collar so I dont understand how he can even keep catching them! Surely the bell alerts them that he's near by?

I know it's highly unlikely theres anything I can do to stop him bringing them and leaving them at the back door but does anyone have any advice? Most of their time their full intact, it often looks like their just sleeping! Somtimes their head is missing.

I hate moving them and I dread opening the back door incase theres a "gift" I try to keep him in at night but he spends the entire night yowling and howling if hes kept in and in the heat I've been keeping the windows open and he gets out through any window in the house. I'm properly fed up

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AlternativelyWired · 09/08/2022 12:01

Don't be so ungrateful! 😁 Seriously though, cats are grim when they do this. So much cuteness masking evil hunting murdering tendencies.
I have no solutions, sorry.

orangeisthenewpuce · 09/08/2022 12:26

He's doing what a cat is meant to do. Good on him. He'll probably grow out of it eventually

lorisparkle · 09/08/2022 12:39

I have read somewhere that cats do most of their hunting at dawn or dusk so best to keep them in then. However our cats seem to catch whenever!

I also read that if you do lots of chasing and catching games with them it satisfies their need to chase and catch. However I have never tried this!

Sorry! Cats will be cats!

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 09/08/2022 12:42

Get a long handled dust pan and brush, like the pan with a bag, brush poor little dead mouse onto bag. Sorted.

This is the only way I can cope with presents from our cat 🤣

Yarnasaurus · 09/08/2022 13:02

Bells rarely work. A friend's cat has a cacophony of falconry bells on his collar and he still hunts successfully.

I made the decision with my latest rescue that she'd only have outside access from post-dawn to pre-dusk. We do playtime at dusk to meet her instinctive needs and this has worked well.

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