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     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I've always found that my cat bringing me dead mice as presents is quite gross but charming in a way. Last night I think he went too far. I was sat in front of the telly eating a nice liver casserole I'd cooked myself. I heard the cat miaowing loudly. How they can mioaw almost louder than usual when they have a dead mouse in their mouth is beyond me, but he came lolloping into the living room with my latest present. He then started playing with it, rollong on his back and throwing it in the air. I thought this was quite funny until it landed slap bang in the middle of my bowl of casserole. For some reason two things happened 1 I didn't feel like finishing my tea. 2 The cat suddenly found itself outside. I think actually throwing a mouse into my food may have crossed the charming boundary of giving gifts. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.89 |
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| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 90.220.218.237 |
I'll tell you what's really gross! My cat Monty brought me HALF a mouse. The problem was I didn't know about it until I trod on it in bare feet, eeeewww | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.183.178 |
My old cat Tiger used to bring me 'gifts', but I never had one dropped on my dinner! He must really like you, Weber. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.176.111 |
Our cats are indoor cats (we lost our previous one to coyotes, and don't want these two to go the same way), but that doesn't stop Bertie from bringing me gifts every night. At first it was just cat toys; then he began bringing me napkins - still in the rings - from the dining-room table (one he brought a cloth placemat as well). At Christmas it was ornaments off the tree, and last week he managed to bring a stuffed teddy bear - almost the same size as Bertie - up the stairs from the basement, down the hall, to the side of the bed. Which is all very well, and rather charming, but he meows whenever he brings me something, and it's very loud, and it's at 3.00 in the morning, usually, which takes away a lot of the charm. Still, it could be worse, it could be live (or dead) mice. . . . | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
My cat brought me various things over the years, including, as ever, lots of mice, but also a large frog and a huge fish. The frog was still alive and it took a while to catch; the fish was something very expensive looking... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.89 |
I hadn't realized coyotes are so fast. Or do they hunt them down in packs? My cat Mitzi has become an indoor specimen too. But in olden times she would come in from a cold, wet night with a half dead mouse or bird and snuggle up to me under the eiderdown - purring very loudly all the time, that goes without saying. An experience to be savoured by the connoisseur. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
He brought a pigeon in for me once. He sat calmly plucking the feathers from it's neck in the middle of my living room. When I reached down to get the bird off him, I found out that the damned thing was still alive. I took it out to the back yard and it flew away. Took me months before I'd cleaned up all the feathers. Just kept finding them everywhere. Bloody cats | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.89 |
They're amazing. I'd like to BE a cat. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.176.111 |
Coyotes can be very fast, and they do hunt in packs. We hear them all the time in the hills around us, sometimes very close; we've even had one in the back yard, although usually they stay away from houses. Most people who live around here and have outdoor cats have lost at least one to coyotes (my parents have lost two that way). | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.8.175.44 |
I've seen my cat face down a full grown fox in the middle of the road outside my house once. I was just about to run out and kick the fox to death myself when my sweet natured little Balrog swiped it on the nose with his claws and it ran off yelping. | ||
| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 90.220.218.237 |
Sean's cat once brought him somebody's xmas turkey! Another time a rabbit the same size as itself. |