I am being paid for my servitude in worms

[SkankingWombat]

How do I explain cash is preferred? Is my kitten broken? Birds, rodents and frogs were the norm from our elderly cat in her hay day, never worms. Payment was infrequent but 'standard'. Every day we are given another wriggly plump earthworm. He doesn't eat them (they are clearly only a suitable food for lesser creatures, such as humans), just dumps it in front of us and waits to be thanked. He did branch out a bit last week and mixed things up with a moth, but otherwise it's just worms...

Photo of furry overlord-in-training as tax payment.

😁at least you get presents. I get none from mine!

Thankfully they are earthworms not tapeworms. Lol

Adorable

Has he seen you eating spaghetti?

😂

He's adorable. He obviously thinks you are too slow/dumb for mice and birds and need to be trained for hunting on the exceedingly slow prey first. At least its not a twig.

TBF this would be my second preference after cash. Unfortunately, I don't get to set the payment terms.

Yes, I am very grateful it isn't a tapeworm 🤢

I hadn't thought of it like that: maybe he believes he has hunted to match our tastes and is actually being very thoughtful. DH is always on a mission to increase his protein consumption, so perhaps worm spaghetti is the way forward? Free, plentiful and renewable.

I'd prefer worms. Mine has a thing for robins. Bastard cat ! Oh and mice and voles but generally eats most of them just leaving us the guts and head.

My cat is a champion frog catcher and brings me several every week during the summer but is still finding them in December. He doesn't kill them - he just deposits them on the floor and pats them. He clearly gets great satisfaction watching them hop.

My cat as a kitten brought in leaves! She has since progressed to disgusting rats/birds/squirrels.

Would love a worm!

I once got a tail. Just a tail. Mouse or vole maybe?

Mine used to bring in worms, his brother brings in pigeons. Mostly when I’m out so I come home to feathers everywhere and dead (sometimes not quite dead) pigeon. Grim

I've had a worm too from my favourite---- cat ... he usually brings me feathers! The other two cats bring mice that our dog tries to rescue 😋

Mine started with worms, now it is fully grown pigeons 🤦‍♀️

I have housecats. They bring me pipe cleaners stolen from my daughter's craft box. I think that is the indoor cat equivalent of worms.

That is adorable!! Better than rodents.

And this is why I have Persians. They are to stupid and lazy to hunt!

Mine used to steal/bring back inanimate objects - that were always pink...

I thought cats were colourblind but clearly not? We had things like pink baby socks, and a plastic pink toy medal that had a cartoon of a cat on it.

She was also completely mute except, when she had treasure in her mouth, then it was constant muffled "talking" of "look what I've brought you!" It was so cute

When she was allowed outside (privileges revoked due to injuries from increasing age and refusal to accept that fighting foxes is for younger cats), our cat seemed to like finding the biggest prey she could to bring home.
"Winners" included a giant black bird (a crow maybe? I didn't ask as it was huge and alive and in my kitchen) and a whole rabbit (not alive). She was probably working on the fox when she got the injury that made us ground her for life.

In contrast our second cat brings us hair bobbles.

My DSis' cat brings her worms too - I'd never heard of it until she sent me a photo of the evidence. He also catches small rodents, so he's not completely broken, but I suppose the wigglyness of worms appeals to their prey drive in the same way that hopping and scuttling does!

I am the lucky recipient of a variety of gifts. We have had plenty of worms, leaves, twigs etc. There are sometimes body parts of birds or mice. A pair of wings or a mouse head. I've had body puff things from someone's bathroom and a whole squid from the fishmonger's van in the past.

The latest delight is stale bread and breadcakes that the neighbour puts out for the birds. The cats then shred it all over the kitchen floor. I've got 5 of the furry bustards, so I'm not always sure who has deposited what.

Sparklfairy they have fewer cones/colour receptors than us, so can see colour but not the variety of shades we get. Instead, they have more rods/light receptors than humans, so their night vision is better.

Sadly, I get the feeling he will eventually move on to bigger prey and we will be joining those given chewed up pigeons (prime cuts already removed for the boss' dinner). He is far more motivated than DCat1 ever was, and is more skilled when we play with him. He managed to wait it out and catch a mouse #1 had brought in and carefully released into the under stairs cupboard before he was old enough to go outside (although then didn't know what to do with it, so it was saved, released and lived to fight another day). DCat1 is fairly rubbish at catting TBH - consistently only 2 or 3 catches a year for 13 years, and always released into the house dripping with saliva, but otherwise totally unharmed and fit to run and hide in some tiny crevice we'll struggle to fish it out of. Sometimes they die of shock, but usually we can return it to the garden. If it wasn't for meaty chunks, she would have starved to death many years ago!

I have a beautiful but not the brightest cat and the only thing she can catch is worms, it’s incredibly cute and incredibly revolting (I’d much prefer dealing with mice).

When my cat was a kitten/young we regularly got worms as presents, often left in our shoes!
She has now graduated to mice and birds, when she can be bothered to get off the sofa

Do you feed the birds in your garden? In that case, the worms could be a useful contribution.

One of my childhood cats would bring back several pine and fir cones per day. We had a big basket of them by the fire where they came in quite handy.

We find presents from Car Two in our shoes. Very glad now they are not worms.