Mad things the cat's dragged in

[pogofish]

they aren't going to drive extinctions except in urban areas - unlike the problem from pesticides/pollution etc.

Urban populations of small mammals are generally doing quite nicely in this country & because of pesticides & habitat-loss (eg traditional hedgerows), quite a number of species that can, have successfully made the jump from their traditional habitat, despite the increase in cats.

Indeed, we are now looking at near-infestation levels for some species & for others, factors other than cats have proved much more relavent to successful reintroductions in depleted areas. Again, we have several ongoing studies/reintroduction projects.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fuck the mammals. Cats is best.

 

[Cloo]

Chim's an experienced spider killer... I watched her trying to chew one once - she has this sort of 'Feh! Feh! Too many legs!' expression on her face!

 

[bus]

washing up sponges.

Pooh used to bring stacks of those yellow foam washing up sponges with the green scourer on the back. the most she ever brought back was around 15 over a period of three months. they were always new, which probably means that poor old granny bunz up the street thought that she had poltergeists.

Pooh also once appeared through the cat flap at high speed, eyes madly staring, ears flat, and fur inflated to 20 times normal size. in her mouth, a yorkshire pudding, with gravy on...that was still steaming.

I miss Pooh. none of our other cats do anything interesting...

 

[High Voltage]

A Sausage.

Next door were having a bbq.

We heard a bit of a commotion as one of the cats came in through the cat flap.
She was proudly dragging in a cooked sausage, which she brought in and promptly devoured.

<<bless>>

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

papoose attempted to bring in a fox last night...

 

[bus]

my mate's cats once tried to get a fozen chicken out of their catflap, and were only rumbled, because they got it wedged

 

[Structaural]

My cat (well still a kitten really, 4 months old) has just 'killed' a three inch paintbrush and dragged it up the stairs.....
What does your cat drag in apart from mice and small birds?

A six inches in diameter toad. I didn't have my glasses/contacts on and thought she'd just been sick on the carpet - I jumped out of my skin when it leapt a foot in the air (adding another 7 inches to it) and squeezed itself under the fridge.

 

[Cakes]

when we lived overseas, my cats which regularly brought in lizards,birds, mice and rats decided one day to bring in a fruit bat. Not a little fruit bat but bloody great squealing 3' wingspan fruit bat. You have never seen such a commotion - bat flapping and squeaking, cat fighting back, desperate to hold onto this nice big 'bird' it had caught. I finally managed, with the help of a broom and an oven shelf (the only thing available that was big enough) to sweep the pair of 'em out the french doors so they could get on with it in the garden, at which point the bat got away.

The cat stuck to pigeons and lizards after that

Good god!! It must have thought "Oh wow! look at that massive birdymouse! I'm taking that home, they'll be well chuffed!"


The maddest thing our tom ever bought in was a bird's nest.

 

[bus]

Sort of vaguely on topic, but Genghis, our 2nd youngest cat used to go berzerk at th sight/smell of broccoli, and would steal it from your plate, an carry it into the corner where she'd wail at it and twat it about the place.

never understood what the fuck that was all about

 

[Looby]

Sort of vaguely on topic, but Genghis, our 2nd youngest cat used to go berzerk at th sight/smell of broccoli, and would steal it from your plate, an carry it into the corner where she'd wail at it and twat it about the place.

never understood what the fuck that was all about

There was a big growly stand off between 2 of our cats a couple of years ago over a garden pea.

 

[bigbry]

My cat doesn't kill anything. She's rubbish at being a cat - she's even scared of snails.

Know what you mean - if our cat had to catch it's own food it would starve - it hasn't got a clue about stalking anything.