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?

Not my cat, but a neighbour's cat. She used to divest herself of her collar, then you'd hear her play with it in the street during the night, and she must have taken it home, because she came back wearing it!

Cleverest one was another neighbour's cat. Neighbour was feeding our boy outside while we were away. The pouches we'd left on the front of our playhouse in a plastic bag kept disappearing. Neighbour contacted us, confused. Turned out that this neighbour's cat wasn't allowed wet food because it upset her tummy. So she was coming here, helping herself to a pouch, which she then took home, ripped open, and ate!

One of mine once brought home an omelette then 5 minutes later a raw sausage… so the only logical conclusion I could come to was that she was in a neighbours house stealing food as they were still cooking it 😐

One live and very cross hamster.

Yellow feather boa.

Baby socks.

Baby's crocheted hat.

Babygro size 3-6 months. No baby, though - think she was planning that for the next expedition.

Chiffon tichel/headscarf.

Bright green salwar kameez. Both parts.

A collared dove, took to vet, survived
A goldfish, large one

Slow worm
Ronald McDonald stuffed toy

My previous cat once killed and ate a frog from a neighbouring garden. I've never known him be so violently sick. He wasn't right for about a week.
Never did it again 😁

Most notable things dragged through the catflap were a quarter of a large pepperoni pizza and a koi carp.

One of my cats is really timid, so she just goes upstairs to the children's rooms and brings me down various items of clothing. She is very proud of it and kind of yowls as she comes down the stairs. Most mornings I am greeted by 4 or 5 items of clothing next to my bed when I wake up. Usually socks and knickers but sometimes dresses.

Apparently one of the reasons cats may collect things (not the usual dead, partly alive or throughly dead, dismembered things) is a frustrated prey drive. There is nothing to catch so they get something else.

My cat brought back some odd things. Then I moved and no more odd things but I got rats, birds etc. He had something to catch at the new place.

Were these birds, insects and animals alive?

What happened to the squirrel?

I love, love, love the cat threads on here.
Absolutely my favourite corner of MN (and I am an obsessive dog person).
I've never had a cat of my own and find it fascinating how enterprising, entertaining and amazing all these pet cats are.
And the photographs make me melt.

Dragonflies and butterflies (always alive, she seems to have a very gentle mouth when she chooses to, unlike when she's biting me).

She's a good mosquito/fly catcher too, except she lifts her paws to have a look and is then very disappointed when they fly away.

Small wooden Viking.

Our cats do the usual; mice, birds, slow worms, however we have also been the victims of a cat thief!

Well actually our 3 y/o Dd has.

I had sort of noticed things getting lost, socks disappearing etc and one day I found one of her Chip and Dale slippers at the top of our garden (it’s a big garden which is tiered and backs on to other gardens so we do get a lot
of cat visitors). I really told Dd off for taking her slippers outside as they were her favourites and she wore them constantly! I only found one and I took it back in the house and then forgot about it for a while. Our house is quite chaotic 🙈 so it took a long time to notice things vanishing.

Any way, one day I got a load of messages from people including other school mums and friends etc saying there’d been a post from a woman whose cat kept bringing home random belongings that she suspected came from the same house, she’d been to all her neighbours and it was none of them. She’d posted photos of the stuff, and all these people recognised it as DD’s possessions. Dd was in a phase of wearing these aristocats pjs everywhere and yep this cat had stolen the bottoms! One of her slippers was there. Multiple vests, socks, squishimal toys, her gardening gloves, there were so many things and every single one belonged to Dd. He must’ve been sneaking in the house 😂

I don’t check Facebook so I’d never have known and just thought I was careless losing stuff if other people hadn’t seen this post and recognised our daughter’s very specific possessions! This cat doesn’t live on our street he has to cross about 6 gardens to get to us 🤣 it really made us laugh imagining him going all that way, the lovely lady brought it back for us all washed and said she’d had to wash it 2 times as he stole it back out of the laundry basket! He must just like Dd’s stuff for some reason! Now we know about it the lady just ties it in a little bag and leaves on our doorstep when he takes things now with a little note to our Dd from ‘Dexter the cat’ which makes her feel very special! So funny he targeted her for some reason 😂

a toad..
a baby rabit..
another cat!
a koi carp!

we have also had a toad and a rabbit (i was impressed it fitted through the cat flat to be honest)

My lovely ginger boy who crossed over rainbow bridge 4 weeks ago has brought me: a live rabbit, a dead rabbit, a mole, a vole, a dead pigeon, a live robin, a snake, numerous mice both dead and alive, and even the cat across the road who moved in 🤪

My friends cat brought her a tiny kitten

Dumped it on her bed at 4am like "here, you might want this, I'm off back out"
She said she did wonder if it was a very weird dream. They kept the kitten as no other kittens or mum nearby so they think possibly abandoned

I was always a dog person and then I met a neighbours cat who was absolutely adamant I was going to be a cat person whether I liked it or not

My cat now is a dog in a cats body, trails after me, plays fetch, comes to greet me or will come running when I shout him and loves belly rubs
Even my dad who is NOT a cat person is "that's not really a cat though is it"

My ginger cat brings another ginger cat in.They both come through the cat flap and sit side by side at the top of the stairs,we call the visitor Bob.

I have indoor cats but they still bring gifts. My kids will often open their bedroom doors in the morning to find a clothes peg or empty toilet roll outside. Thank you strokes are expected.

first grasshoppers he kept under the edge of the carpet 6 months old

by 1 year he brought me dressed scrap yard rats on my porch had to for him to leave before i could burn them

told him i didnt like bbq

another female longhaired pure white girl brought live mouse for her to let lose in the house at night to play
same caught bats from the attic
these were for her not me

Yes most of them. We managed to save most of them. Not the sock though, couldn’t save the sock.

A raw sausage and a chocolate biscuit.

A rotting squid which took some time to find.

Snakes.