Posted on 08/07/2012 8:19:10 PM PDT by george76
Cast aside all fantasies of your house cat frolicking through flower-filled fields in the afternoon sun. When kitty scratches at the door begging to go outside, it's the killing hour.
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cats ate about 30 percent of their kills, brought home another 25 percent and left 49 percent of their prey to simply decay.
So what are cats killing?
Lizards, snakes and frogs (41 percent); chipmunks and vols (25 percent); insects and worms (20 percent) and, of course, birds (12 percent).
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That’s okay. Cats are not for everyone. If your experiences were with nasty cats, no one can blame you for hating them.
It’s too bad you never interacted with a sweet and loving cat. But that’s life, I guess.
Good idea, thanks! The liter boxes are also plastic and absorb the smell. Have to replace them time and time again.
My oh my! What a beauty!
Thanks!!! =). She’s one of those “crazy beauties”, lol.
hehehehe.... We have three cats. One eats nothing but dry food, but the other two get really excited when they hear a pull-top coming off a can of squishies. They have also learned the word “lunch.”
I’ve never seen her bring anything down, but I’m sure Patch is a pretty good hunter. She lived as a stray for quite a while before we finally took her into the house, so she’d have to be, particularly since she almost always had kittens to feed. And she seems to spend quite a bit of time outside when we let her out; maybe she is doing a bit of hunting. Not sure how effective she is now since she’s wearing a bell...
Lately we’ve had a lot of feral cats hanging around in our yard. Makes me wonder if we’ve got vermin about; I haven’t been feeding any of them lately.
Thanks for the suggestion...however, our cat, if I turn my back on him....runs me down, attacking my legs (and during summer it’s not fun)...I use a water spray bottle now, or a plastic bag (he hates the sound) to scare him off. I watch his eyes...they tell me his mood. If they are small, I can pet him...when they get big it’s time for him to move away from me.
They certainly are all different, and you would know best which tack to take with your own kitteh. My ploy has worked for three slashy cats, but certainly your solution fits your little fuzzy face.
Hubby and I had a cat who was terrified of plastic grocery bags. He got one stuck on his front leg, and he tore out a claw down to the quick trying to run away from it (it grew back). He always bolted out of the kitchen when I arrived home on grocery day. Sigh... Our little madman, d. 1997, RIP.
My last cat was a big beautiful gray-striped tom. He didn’t go outside, so the only things he ever killed were the crickets that got inside. But that instinct was there all the time. One of our games was “kill my legs.” I would make eye contact with him, and start to slowwwwly back away. His eyes got that fixated stare and he crouched like a little lion in the grass. I backed away a little faster, and then turned and ran, and he would unfailingly streak after me and murder my ankles. Lots of fun, and the scars were worth it, LOL.
Perhaps that mouse would “rat” on the locations of the others.
That looks exactly like my Sheba. Squirrel and all.
Eats heads only. Leaves remains at front door. I am proud; my wife is appalled.
It that your cat?
The hunt is on!
Yes, she lost part of her nose one time.
Odd thing is...he loves PLAYING with plastic bags...it’s just when they are in OUR hands that he runs.
A few years back, during an annual visit to the vet, the vet said we needed to put our cat on a diet.
To which I applied, “He doesn’t eat anything we give him. he gets his own food.”
During the next 2 weeks I decided to take a count of his kills. In a single week and only those critters that he brought home or that I observed him killing or eating, the count was 114 critters in 7 days. Critters = small birds, mice, moles, voles, shrews, squirrels, ducks, geese, pheasants, pidgeons, snakes, frogs, toads, rabbits. No insects, spiders or worms were in the count.
That is Miss Cat, she lives with a close and dear friend of mine in Texas.
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