Does she wear a bell?
My cat wants out so bad! Too many boogers out there for her though. Coyotes already got one.
According to the N Audubon folks,biggest detriment to wild birds is the domestic cat.
You should be proud
” She just brought me, unharmed, a baby rabbit. The animal kingdom is hard to understand at times.”
She is trying to teach you to hunt. She brought you an easy one to catch.
“Brought you another friend, mommy.”
Cute! I live in an old brick house...1800’s....and mice make their way in now and then. My small dog and cat work as a team catching them if they see one. It may take hours, but with great patience they wait it out. Its funny to watch....I get it with the cat, but not the dog!
One evening the cattle dog and the feral cat teamed up against a small rabbit. The cat was stalking for the kill, and the dog would run around and cut it off if it tried to get away.
The dog was making so much noise that I came out to see what was going on.
I grabbed the cat and told the dog to go in the house. I kept them both inside long enough to give the bunny a chance of getting away.
That is crazy adorable!
Make sure you get the baby rabbit the right food. It has to have special supplements from the mother (or elsewhere), otherwise it will not be able to digest any food you give it, and will die.
You’ll need Kitten Milk Replacer (KMR) or goat milk; and maybe acidophilus.
Check the NET for details.
“She just brought me, unharmed, a baby rabbit. “
I’ll be damned———dear kitty has a maternal instinct.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
My cat is also a super killer, which is why we do not let him outside except on a tether.