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‘Kittycam’ study finds cats are virtual killing machines
Yahoo! News ^ | August 07, 2012 | Eric Pfeiffer,

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).

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Humor; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: captainobvious; cats; kittycam; kittyping
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To: djf

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.


61 posted on 08/08/2012 5:43:12 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
OMG, she looks exactly like my Crazy Mary! She's strictly indoors, but hunts down and kills anything that happens to "sneak" in. Photobucket
62 posted on 08/08/2012 5:55:34 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: TheOldLady

Good idea, thanks! The liter boxes are also plastic and absorb the smell. Have to replace them time and time again.


63 posted on 08/08/2012 5:57:58 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Photobucket
64 posted on 08/08/2012 6:28:10 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: Dick Vomer
We have a white Shepperd, Labrador retriever, and a Scotty, all males. Guess which one is the alpha male? Scotty, of course.
65 posted on 08/08/2012 6:29:22 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: NoGrayZone

My oh my! What a beauty!


66 posted on 08/08/2012 6:29:50 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

Thanks!!! =). She’s one of those “crazy beauties”, lol.


67 posted on 08/08/2012 6:40:00 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: george76
They're just warming up ...


68 posted on 08/08/2012 7:13:01 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: SkyDancer

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.


69 posted on 08/08/2012 7:23:27 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (EAT MOR CHIKIN)
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To: TheOldLady

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.


70 posted on 08/08/2012 7:42:25 AM PDT by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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To: goodnesswins

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.


71 posted on 08/08/2012 7:55:31 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: goodnesswins

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.


72 posted on 08/08/2012 7:57:54 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Perhaps that mouse would “rat” on the locations of the others.


73 posted on 08/08/2012 8:06:13 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: TheOldLady

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?


74 posted on 08/08/2012 8:10:16 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: SkyDancer

The hunt is on!


75 posted on 08/08/2012 8:11:31 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Pontiac

Yes, she lost part of her nose one time.


76 posted on 08/08/2012 8:11:58 AM PDT by PastorJimCM (truth matters)
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To: TheOldLady

77 posted on 08/08/2012 8:13:55 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: TheOldLady

Odd thing is...he loves PLAYING with plastic bags...it’s just when they are in OUR hands that he runs.


78 posted on 08/08/2012 8:30:01 AM PDT by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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To: george76

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.


79 posted on 08/08/2012 8:51:06 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Repeal Obamacare, the CITIZENSHIP TAX)
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To: freedomlover

That is Miss Cat, she lives with a close and dear friend of mine in Texas.


80 posted on 08/08/2012 9:38:27 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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