Our cat would have 7 moles, 2 doves, 2 snakes, 1 rabbit, 1 squirrel, 1 mouse, 1 rat, 1 chipmunk, 1 wren, 1 purple finch.
Posted on 04/20/2018 6:19:39 PM PDT by eastforker
Folks I have a killer cat that has killed more birds, mice and squirrels than you can imagine. She has a pet door that allows her to come and go as she pleases. She just brought me, unharmed, a baby rabbit. The animal kingdom is hard to understand at times.
Cats are fearsome hunters. I’m no cat person, but I have a respect for them.
Had a Burmese for 17 years. Meanest damn cat I ever saw - except to me. Could not stand anyone else, but would jump on my lap the minute I sat down and start the motorboat purring. Strange critter, for sure.
Oh I plan on letting it go back to the woods in the morning, I think it has already been weaned.
Bells
Our cat would have 7 moles, 2 doves, 2 snakes, 1 rabbit, 1 squirrel, 1 mouse, 1 rat, 1 chipmunk, 1 wren, 1 purple finch.
All our cats are indoors only now, other than the outside guy that adopted us. He does not come in. At least one indoor cat wants out very bad, but no way. All are fixed, just the one girl worships the outside cat.
Some collars are supposedly breakaway. I want my new kitten to be an outdoor cat, but I don’t want him to kill birds. Rodents are fine.
I had two cats who went outdoors. They brought me birds, frogs, and one’s favorite catch was chipmunks. For being outdoor cats, they lived quite a long time. One was 18 and the other almost 19 when I had to put them down. The next pair of cats I got stayed indoors all the time. I didn’t want to end up having to take them to the vet every time they came home with an abscess, or some other injury. That’s what I had gone through with the first two. I thought if I kept them in I’d have them for as long as I had the first two, but it wasn’t to be. One ended up with cancer at 10, and the other, age 11, suffered from an eating disorder (vomiting regularly, losing weight), and I had to have them both put down the same day. That was back in 2005. Although I love cats, I’m just too old now to have any. I don’t want my kids to have to deal with any pets when I die. Neither of my two sons lives near me.
I feel your pain. We live on some acreage and inherited a feral cat. He spends most nights outside and uses the small doggie door for his pleasure. He loves my husband and enjoys playing “Whack a Rat”. I have no critters ever in my home until he decides to bring them in for us. He likes to come in around 2 am and if he meows once, he is alone, several meows sends my husband sprinting out of bed and arming himself with a 3 foot wooden dowel and a big net. When hubby has his weapons, the cat drop the rat (mostly), mouse or whatever, to begin the playtime. The rat runs towards my hubby, and he whacks at it with the dowel and that send the critter running back to the cat. He flips him back to hubby and the whacking starts again. Luckily, hubby has succeeded in stunning and scooping all of the many, many critters and takes them outside in the net with a final “whack” against the brick wall before he flings into the wild. We have had 2 bunnies, and have successfully rescued them and they do not get the whack treatment. Fun times are had by all.
Will let it go in the morning.
great so your killer cat can trash it again
and will die.
No problem she is letting it out in the AM and the cat will kill it later
The way I interpreted it the cat carried the bunny as if it was a kitten-—probably by the nape.
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Naa, I’ll jump in the golf cart and take him down the road.
The cat........good plan
You are her over grown, bald kitten with substandard teeth and claws.
But she does have hopes that with a little coaching you might learn how to survive on your own.
Yes, that is exactly what she did.
Just this week my daughter let the dog out in the backyard to do his business (2 am in the morning!). She wakes up at 6 am and is climbing out of bed and sees a brown spot on her carpet. “Oh great - since when does he poop in the house?!”
Well - it was a baby rabbit - maybe a few days old. Eyes closed, not crawling, etc. But - it was alive. (90 pound mutt; Great Dane, Lab, pointer, etc.)
My wife called the animal rescue place. They took the rabbit, and said it wasn’t hurt at all! If we could find the nest they would bring it back to the mom, otherwise it only has a 20% chance of survival. We found perhaps the remnant of the nest - and hope that mom moved her family out of the back yard. No blood or fur anywhere, and no fur in the dog’s poop.
I spoke to them the other day and they said the little guy took to their formula, and he’ll be fine. My wife and kids know they they are on the bottom of the food chain, but I don’t need my dog messing with them. (The coyotes will do their part).
So for the time being I set up some chicken wire to keep him in one part of the yard that has grass and I know is rabbit free. I have seen another large “baby” that the rescue gal said is probably 2 weeks old - so must be another batch from another mom? (30 day gestation period, 4 months to maturity, less than a year life-span in the wild.)
Speaking of cats, I like cats well enough - but don’t care for them out in the neighborhood killing the little animals. Or to been eaten by the larger ones. One day leaving the driveway (suburbia) I saw a coyote carrying a huge cat in its mouth. I just had to chuckle “Poor guy thought HE was the mighty predator.”
Funny thing, neither cat will eat table scraps but the female begs/ will eat raw fish scraps when I am cleaning fish at the cleaning table.
“My wife and kids know they they are on the bottom of the food chain...” (The RABBITS that is!)
My cat is also a super killer, which is why we do not let him outside except on a tether.
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