Maybe Pat didn’t want to find the mangled corpses of Easter bunny babies. I wouldn’t look very hard, either.
Jake probably sees them as funny-looking kitten competition; like most tom cats who kill the young males in litters.
Jake’s just an ex-Tom. He got in a fight with another cat, too.
Now he’s on my bed in a total state of collapse. He didn’t even have enough energy to get up and move to my stomach!