14y year old cat caught a bloody magpie!

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This morning, my tiny, skinny, 14+ year old girl (adopted so age unsure, but at least 14), caught an actual magpie!

This is the cat who, when 5 years younger, I once watched fail to catch an already dead mouse!

It was this morning and I'm still a bit in shock!

Fortunately I managed to pry her mouth open and it flew away, seemingly unharmed! Neither of our cats (other one is 13) have caught anything for years so really thought we were past this!

Hopefully she'll catch another one for joy. Keep us posted.

My cat caught a bird the other day. I’ve had him 2 years and he’s not caught so much as a spider and fails to catch flies
I had an operation and he brought me a bloody bird!

Wish mine would. They’re a pest in my garden!

Oh and as for what I did
”aw are you playing with your toy? That’s nice”
< looks over >
“is that a motherfucking BIRD?!?”
< jumps up, regrets it as stitches pull >

Cat “mum you’re so mean taking it off me” he then flung himself on the floor and sulked dramatically

Our elderly cat adopts the shape and physical activity levels of a potato during the winter and then becomes quite sprightly in hot weather, it’s like the heat from the sun gives him energy. The hotter it is, the more he runs around like a kitten and becomes very skinny (we’ve taken him to the vet, there’s nothing wrong with him, he’s just very active in the summer and burning a lot of calories. He gets positively fat when it’s cold).

A few years ago, during one of his summertime activity frenzies, he brought in a live seagull. It was enormous and he had somehow managed to get it through the cat flap. It was very angry and flapping around our house, and he was leaping feet into the air to try and recapture it.

Maybe she’s like our cat and has absorbed energy from the sun during the heat wave, like a hairy solar panel?

She's reminding you she's an apex predator. "Look what I can do!"

One of our cats once dragged in an enormous great herring gull. OK, it was dead, but she was about six months old and tiny and we lived in a terrace. We had a backyard with high walls and there was a catflap in the back door. We never fathomed how she did it.

Cats absolutely rule ❤️🐈

OMG...we had a dead one brought in once and that was impressive enough given that our six month old kitten did it. A live one??? They are bloomin' thugs with huge beaks and nasty tempers.

Yes totally agree on cats getting energy from the sun. They love the heat. Mines a total slug during the winter but in the last two weeks I’ve had four rats, two blue tits (weep), one pigeon and he’s made friends with a queen that visits the garden.

I think my cat has catching a squirrel on his bucket list.

I love the nonchalant “I was just running in that direction and never even noticed there was a squirrel that I failed to catch’ look he has when another one sprints out of his grasp.

My mate that visits (neighbours cat) normally walks around with the speed of a sloth.

I saw him shoot along the patio the other day trying to catch a bird (he missed), he was like bloody Usain Bolt!!

Good for her. I bloody loathe magpies.

My cat Herbie has caught many pigeons, and one was brought in alive through the catflap....we had to get it and put it in his cat carrier and release it down the road.

He once left us a present of a dead magpie under the dining room table.

He definitely prefers birds to mice, but once I looked outside and saw him with a mouse. He was tossing it into the air and catching it, having great fun.

Little menace!

My 10 year old cat almost caught one this week - there was an absolute cacophony of birds shouting outside and I went out to find him cowering under a chair surrounded by feathers and 4-6 magpies and even more crows (next door has a nest in their chimney) on all 3 garden fences and in the trees screeching at him to fuck off. I had to bring him inside 😂

Penelope almost caught a fly the other day. I tried not to laugh to much!

It's fledgling season remember. So a lot of birds that may look like adults are in fact probably just out of the nest and finding their wings.

This is when our elderly cats actually stand a chance of hunting successfully. So bells on collars if you can at this time of year! Even for the old codgers 😄

😆😆😆 poor boy !
we have a lot of crows around here and our cat once had a right bollocking off one, it was sat on our fence looking down at the cat really squawking at him giving him a warning I guess ??

And another time I witnessed him get chased off the neighbours roof by a couple of crows, he nearly slipped off in his rush to get away !! Crows don’t give a shit do they 🤣

I had a cat that tried to bring in a live squirrel once. She had it by the scruff and it was seriously pissed off.

I heard her mrawking through the garden thank god, and managed to grab her and release it before she brought it inside.

It was so livid that it spent the rest of the day trying to get inside the house by throwing itself at the windows. When I took the bins out it chased me!

Yes! Can I put an order in for all these damned crows please?

The reason we have a crow family next door may be because my parent's cat died and we inherited his food, which my cats hated, so I went from putting out the rejected bowls of food for the crows - to the crow coming up to the kitchen window and staring at me until I just put an entire tin out for it.

Now I think they'd be happy with eating the cat rather than just the cat's food.

My boy is 4, and insists that I point out that he is in his absolute prime, so I appreciate that I am rather missing the point of this thread but - he has recently discovered the joys of murdering rodents. Not a sniff of a corpse for the first 3 years we owned him, now all of a sudden I have to check where I'm treading very, very carefully as I shuffle about making my cup of tea in the morning. Mice, (baby) rats, voles - all meeting their maker at an alarming rate.

I'd always thought cats only hunted if their mum was a hunter. My boy appears to be self-taught.

Apex predator my arse!
She once tried to sit on a piece of paper half off the edge of the bed and then was very confused when she fell on the floor 😂

🤣

It is Herbie's greatest wish to be able to catch the squirrel that frequents our garden!
He isn't quick enough, but he has a good attempt. I hope he never succeeds though. He is a big bruiser of a cat, so pigeons suit him better as they don't seem to be the quickest of birds.

My fat cat once caught a young magpie that sadly didn't survive. The other magpies would swoop at him afterwards but not bother his almost identical brother, they are so intelligent. An entente cordiale was reached, whereby fat cat would catch mice then leave them for the magpies when he was done tormenting the poor things.

Its the natural tabby in her - shes reminding you that shes still got it.