The only "present" we ever got from a cat, was one tiny mouse, which somehow managed to get up to the 8th floor in a NEWLY BUILT Manhattan apartment building and in one of our closets. Needless to say, that promptly went down the garbage shoot. But that cat was a great mouser!
I saw this small pile of black stuff, coiled.
Thought, ‘What is a cow pie doing in the living room?’
Scooped it up with a dustpan and took it outside.
That same cat took a dump in one of my shoes.