Strange things your cats bring home

[JaceLancs]

Finlay is only just getting into hunting for gifts to bring home to me
Last week it was his first ivy leaf!
Hes moved on since then a bit - a few days later I found some white mushy balls of some substance which on closer inspection was soggy white bread (no crust)
Then he upped his game to small square slices of whole meal bread
The day after same square of bread but this time buttered with cheddar cheese
This morning I just got a slice of cheddar
I suspect he’s hunting someone’s bird table offerings
What do your lovelies bring home to impress you with?

Baby rabbit eviscerated on the lawn.

Our late, lovely Ginger, on various occasions, brought home a cheese wrapper, an old cigarette packet and a used teabag. I nearly croaked it as I thought the teabag was a mouse. He never caught a mouse or a bird.

Oscar upped the ante. He came home a few times with a freshly cooked chicken breast, which he feasted on when he safe in our garden. Pork chop another time, and I think some bacon once.

half a mouse one day and then the next day dropped a live mouse in the middle of the living room.

Dead rat complete with attached mousetrap, baby squirrel x 3, squirrel with broken back. Live pigeon!

I've had a dead hamster, a loaf of bread, a barely alive mouse, a pack of chicken breasts, and on a regular basis seagull feathers.

A (still alive) sparrow. I managed to get the cat out of the living room but the terrified bird flew madly around the room. pooping everywhere as it went. I am terrified of birds and couldn't bring myself to attempt to catch it so I phoned the SSPCA.
Thankfully in his old age, he seems to have lost the inclination to catch anything.

😂 He'll be bringing home a whole roast dinner soon...

Sticks of rhubarb. Every day she'd struggle in with one then dump it on the floor and sing to it!
Not our rhubarb

A piece of crackling from a pork joint, looking quite dirty - suspect he'd pulled it out of a neighbour's bin. Was quite impressed that he'd worked out how to get it through the cat door.

In 11 years I've never managed to train my three to do this.
I wish!

A slow worm, which shed its tail in the conservatory where he left it. Fortunately I actually like reptiles so I carried it outside and hid it behind the shed.

An empty crisp packet
A polo mints wrapper

One of mine is obsessed with collecting rubber bands dropped by the postman/woman. She's very proud of them and yells for me to come and look at them.

I live opposite the beach and my cat come home with a starfish' Also a boiling hot Cornish pasty.

Once a bottle of bicycle oil. Not clear why. I don't have a bicycle

One cat brought an uncooked beef joint which he'd dragged up the gravelly drive.

Next doors already dead guinea pig, which he'd dug up from the grave they'd placed it in , lovingly, the day before.

Loving your stories of treasure brought home
Where we live is fairly rural so I’m used to rodents, birds, rabbits, frogs even bats etc from cats we’ve had in the past
Years ago when I lived in a SE city my cat used to steal food from neighbours kitchen even sausages left under the grill

I had a tabby cat proudly bring in a live jackdaw. He was on tip toes carrying it. How he stuffed it through the cat flap I don’t know. He dropped it at my feet and the bird promptly flew up to the top of my bookcase where it glowered at me.

That jackdaw was seriously unimpressed with the indignity of it all.

She keeps finding nerf gun bullets from somewhere. We have asked the neighbours who also have kids and they all say they aren't there's. We have no idea where the bullets are coming from. We are up to 4 now. She is very proud when she brings them in for us.

It's nicer than the eleventy billion mice we got last year though.

Young magpie
Wood pidgeon
Frog
Mice
Huge rat
Bat
Rabbit
Nest plus 5 dead baby birds
Numerous birds
Elephant hawk moth
Butterfly
Giant spider
Socks
Bbq chicken wing

Felix was mainly an indoor Cat, but on one of the rare occasions he was allowed out. He very kindly brought me a live bird. I'd gone to call him back inside so I could go out, but couldn't find him anywhere. My then neighbour at the time said she'd seen him up the top of the road. Quickly went inside to grab his biscuits, only to find Felix sat in the kitchen. There's me thinking, brill at least I don't need to try and chase him back home again and quickly shut the kitchen door. Then I noticed him looking intently at his litter tray. Didn't think nothing of it until he started miaowing. Next thing his cat litter starts moving and out pops this little bird who looks absolutely terrified of this great big fat cat who's sat inches away from its face. Cue me quickly grabbing Felix and trying to think where to put him whilst I freed the bird. Bedroom no good cos the window is still wide open, living room had no door after my exh smashed it into me in a temper and broke the glass. Finally managed to trap Felix in the toilet and goes back in the kitchen half expecting the bird to have died from shock. No it's now managed to free itself and is flying around the kitchen shitting absolutely everywhere. Felix is in the bathroom going ballistic cos he wants the bird and I'm stood there with the kitchen door and window wide open going out go on get out whilst gently trying to guide said bird out with a sweeping brush. Eventually it flew out, much to the disgust of Felix 😹 the other thing he very kindly brought me, was 3 giant wasps that dropped out of his fur onto the carpet as washed himself 😱 those were promptly trapped under a glass and released outside. Although how the hell he got them inside his fur I've no idea

My beloved ginger girl once came home with a rabbit harness. Took me a while to track down the owners of it on our street. She also brought me a pencil, a cat toy that was not ours, and a chunk of French stick. Nowadays she just sticks to dropping mice on me at 3am, dead or alive.

Adult and baby rats, live and dead.
Mice, live and dead.
Various birds. It's surprising how many feathers a pigeon has.
Various rabbit body parts, always gutted though.
Frogs.
A woodpecker, artfully laid out on the carpet.
Worms.
Empty crisp packets.

A live squirrel, that was an interesting morning. He was a fighter though so usually we got bits of other cats.

At least four occasions where we pulled out claws from his stupid face/head (never his arse, my DH would proudly say) and on one occasion he came and flumped very smugly on the rug and dh and I just looked at him 'whats wrong with his paws!?' I say. Cat was very ginger but his paws were weird and black. On closer examination his toes on both fronts paws were densely packed with another cats long black fur, like he was wearing slippers.

I know it's not the point of the thread but this made me gasp: living room had no door after my exh smashed it into me in a temper and broke the glass.
I hope you are okay now @IBegYourBiggestPardon 💐