Posted on 10/05/2019 10:16:27 AM PDT by RummyChick
“Wonder how the cat did it without getting bit?”
Cats don’t understand fear. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwtxcWVhAWI
“Cats are badass and pound-for-pound they are much more lethal than a canine.”
There was a show on that counted down the most dangerous predators in the world. They used a variety of statistics to determine the rankings. How often a kill was made, type of animal killed, size of predator compared to prey, etc.
The number 1 predator was the common house cat due to the wide variety of prey they hunt, size relative to prey the house cat ranked #1 in every statistic.
The common house cat is also the only predator that kills for fun.
Cats are often faster to start if the cat knows the snake is there, and the warm-blooded cat can stay fast for longer than the snake can. Snakes have problems with multiple strikes (assuming the snake has to reach/stretch to get you) and snakes don’t.
Here are close relatives of your local house cats demonstrating how cats deal with snakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjIZSmyYPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6okkKX3mjV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsaffqAF-Es
Not all individual cats can do this, but cats in general usually win in an open cat v snake fight.
Dogs are sloooooooow compared to cats.
So, this cat’s hunting instinct made it body slam a much larger dog, somehow NOT pursue him much, then go back and escort the small human inside?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRhV8YoEUqA
Yeah, I don’t think so.
Er, that should be: “Snakes have problems with multiple strikes (assuming the snake has to reach/stretch to get you) and cats don’t.”
Cats can play the hyperspeed bongos on their prey... with their claws out. This cat kept theirs in with the baby, but watch the paw speed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaGw1Vlf7Eg
A hawk flying with a snake in its talons is Native American symbolism of the victory of good over evil.
“When they told Jerry Nadler he had a flesh eating disease , they gave him 87 years to live”
LOL! Consider a career in comedy.
My younger cat keep sitting in front of my stove patiently the last two days.
Then about 2 am it had caught a baby mouse and was making alot of noise killing it (cats torture what they kill).
Then it caught a second mouse (larger) about two hours later.
I feel bad about taking the mice from the cat and flushing them down the toilet, but I was able to get to sleep...
My two cats do warn me about things, and I try to pay attention...
Good kitty.
I had a cat that went after snakes, when they showed themselves, which was not often. Just regular garden snakes. I think cats have inborn hatred for snakes. We used to twitch a rope on the ground and the cats would leap straight up into the air in alarm. Fun game for all of us.
Takin a bow, when I was adopted at age 8, they told me I was Scottish so by God,I am Scottish, cept I ain’t
Turns out I am and German/Cheroke
Know the problem with that ?
I get drunk and try to scalp myself
I just don’t know if it is for the Home Land or Mother Earth
Adopted cats know and remember the kindness shown them. We have a new one who came to us in a terrible stormy period. We have figured out that he was abandoned when the people in the rent house down the road were forced to leave after not paying their rent (verified by the landlord today). That was four months ago. He was on his own in the relative wild foraging for about three months and he showed it. Fur matted, tail full of burrs, eyes sunken, thin as a rail and soaked to the skin. After food, a trip to the vet and an nice place to stay he is a different cat that follows us around the place like a little dog. Homer has jointed our little family of refugees that protect our place from snakes and vermin.
Gophers, just the face with teeth and the livers I guess.
Patient, lone hunters. We have a tom that can dig like I’ve never seen. He has even tunneled out of the barn at one point moving nearly a foot of inch and a half crushed rock.
I really like cats.
We have a gray cat that can pop the others three times before they can even blink and move. She is our snake hunter but she is a lot more cautious after she got bitten by a small copperhead. I’ll see her out at night focused on the ground and the other three sitting nearby monitoring.
She is also the appointed food monitor who reminds me it is 0700 and 1700 hrs plus late nights if I am out in the shop.
“Homer has jointed our little family of refugees”
We had a solid black kitty named Homer. His brother was Jethro (of course).
Cat vs Snake.
Cat wins.
https://www.wideopenspaces.com/death-match-cat-vs-snake-video/
With a snake, its close, but, while some cats are not as fast, and do get bite, here "cat-like reflexes trumps striking as quick as a snake. Every move the snake made was met by a cat's paw shutting it down." https://www.wideopenspaces.com/death-match-cat-vs-snake-video/
If you've ever seen the result of a weasel in a henhouse, you would be quickly disabused of that notion.
“If you’ve ever seen the result of a weasel in a henhouse, you would be quickly disabused of that notion.”
Forgot about weasels.
I can’t recall encountering any in my neck of the woods although my grandparents spoke of the odd encounter.
The most we worried about were skunks and feral cats in the henhouse.
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