What 'present' has your cat brought you? (light hearted)

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My cat just came into the kitchen while I was having my lunch chirping proudly and proceeded to spit out a huge live fly in front of me....

Of course I congratulated her on her hunting skills and then promptly got rid of the fly in the garden...

What lovely gifts have you received from your cats?

Spread eagled pigeons
One baby squirrel rug
A huge magpie

Koi carp (plural)
A dead pheasant
Crisp packets (multiple and empty)

Oh, and we didn’t find the mummified frog until we pulled the oven out when we were moving.

A single slice of ham.

I'm vegan.

I've got a pair like this. One is an ex-stray, sharp as a tack, absolutely deadly when she was younger. Single-pawedly wiped out a vole colony in our old back garden.

The other is very beautiful and very sweet, but she is 100% not equipped to survive in the wild.

That's hilarious! I don't have a problem with bats, but the absolute horror of reaching out and unexpectedly finding one next to your bed

Boy cat brings in shrews but they aren’t presents, he just wants to play with them. Girl cat brings me leaves and flowers. Once when I was ill she brought me her entire collection of precious things - bottle top, pair of dd’s socks, cat toy, hospital bracelet - and placed them carefully around me on the bed. I have never felt so cherished.

BigDahliaFan
Baby clothes…little socks, baby dunmmy, no near neighbours with babies.
Thats mad!!

I love our cat but we’ve been turning her into a house cat, especially at certain times of the day as she is a murderess. I love her but we’ll never get another cat after- mice, birds, our last cat got a rabbit.

That’s so incredibly sweet. 😻

Caterpillars. Mice. Shrews. Sparrows. Robins. Frogs. And once, notably, an adult pigeon.

A massive hare

Mine has learned that if she brings something in tot he house she is screamed at and the 'prey' will be taken off her.

She has a thing for robins. No idea why.

@prettybird I don't want to worry you but foxes like to carry eggs home.

We have 3 cats, our oldest girl (4) often brings back birds, mice and baby rats. Our boy who is just about to turn 1 brought home his first bird this week, prior to this it was leaves and the odd feather. Our youngest girl (9 months) has not brought anything back, but the eldest does pass her the present when she brings them.

I really don't like it but I know it's what they do. We have a lady who is a 5 min drive away who has rehabbed a few "catches" successfully and set them out to the wild.

A cat from a few roads away comes to our house everyday.

my neighbour put a collar on it from cats protection asking if he's stray. Someone called and said he's owned, but he runs in our house and pisses everywhere and he's still intact.

He's brought us a mouse, which he ate, and a dead mole. Our girl can't stand him, we don't even have a catflap, neighbours had to get rid of theirs. Poor fella.

Socks. Socks. More socks.

No idea where she gets them from.

The best was a 5 pack of unopened sports socks still in their cardboard wrapper.

Actually the most disgusting was a baby bird still half in its shell. Half alive but not developed enough to live.

I had two cats growing up. The first was semi feral and I think the worst was coming in with a (large) dead rabbit (possibly a hare) and slowly and determinedly eating the entire thing, skull etc included, from the head down to its back feet, all while fixing me with an evil stare.

The other was her son and usually a real softy. Brought back the usual mice etc but mostly largely unharmed, so much of the time I would manage to take them from him and release them. The most traumatic was when he brought a very heavily pregnant mouse back while I was in bed, killed the mouse and tore open her belly then had a great time chasing the almost fully formed babies all round my room 😟. There really wasn't anything I could do to help them so I had to go and hide in the kitchen until he was done.

@sashh - we did see foxes in the garden but I'm not concerned they've come through the cat flap.

Given that they have brought in live birds (eg our Christmas magpie), I know they can have soft mouths when they want to

"We do see foxes..."

Various rats and mice, dead ones and alive ones. Best one tho, my 6 month old kitten brought a live pigeon through the cat flap!

My cat used to bring me sticks and leaves. Goodness knows how he managed to traverse them through the bathroom window! When I was a student I lived in a shared house near a pub. One of the girls owned a cat and she would regularly bring back scraps from the bins - left over steak, sausages, pieces of chicken. She would walk in all proud, chirping with her tail up, drop her gift on the floor and bugger off back out !

When living with my parents, the cats never really bothered with hunting except the odd bee. But then one time we spotted a huge dead rat in the alley. Next day, the cat brought it in and dropped it in the living room while my friend and I were home alone (we were about 15). My friend very heroically picked it up in kitchen roll and threw it over the fence into the neighbour's garden.
My Dad's favourite story is of Patch Boy. I only knew him as an old cat but in his younger days, he once very proudly brought home a pigeon. Only, it was very flat and had tyre marks down it's back. Patch Boy favoured road kill.

Our little boy cat ( who it is fair to say the rest of the felines are glad he is neutered because his genes are not worth passing on !) loves feathers .

He especially loves magpie feathers and kept bringing them in , must've had a dead one somewhere .

Then there were a load of feathers on the lawn- magpie and pigeon, but no blood . So maybe a squabble not a kill.
He cantered in with feathers in his mouth like a proud warrior with a sword.

That's true. I forget sometimes how small my cat is, you would guess her at about 6 months but she is at least 14.

@bringonyourwreckingball what a sweetie.

Over dinner one night -ours threw a dead mouse on the table - almost as if he was feeding us 🤣