Please help..cat and dead things..
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Really need advice 
My cat is bringing in and eating/leaving as gifts or bringing in half alive and let things run around the house now on almost a daily basis. It is driving me insane.
I have tried adding bells to her collar but this didn't seem to make much of a difference other than she brings in more mice/voles now which is good in one way because she was bringing in birds the size of Eagels at one point and even managed a pigeon with a tag.
I really don't know what else to do other than shut her in permantly but I really I am against that idea, but I am also against her murdering half the cities wildlife
Any ideas?
My cat is bringing in and eating/leaving as gifts or bringing in half alive and let things run around the house now on almost a daily basis. It is driving me insane.
I have tried adding bells to her collar but this didn't seem to make much of a difference other than she brings in more mice/voles now which is good in one way because she was bringing in birds the size of Eagels at one point and even managed a pigeon with a tag.
I really don't know what else to do other than shut her in permantly but I really I am against that idea, but I am also against her murdering half the cities wildlife
Any ideas?
Shut her out?
That way the dead things get left on your doorstep and you don't have to chase them round the lounge.
Took me ages to catch a sparrow one day, and you don't want to know how many half dead, blood splattered mice i've chased around the dining room.
Don't think you can stop her really its pretty natural, just try and prevent her bringing them into the house.
That way the dead things get left on your doorstep and you don't have to chase them round the lounge.
Took me ages to catch a sparrow one day, and you don't want to know how many half dead, blood splattered mice i've chased around the dining room.
Don't think you can stop her really its pretty natural, just try and prevent her bringing them into the house.
That could be an option, better out than in I guess. Will have to think of the logistics of that. 
You have my sympathy; my cat has "gifted" me 1 grass snake, 1 lizard, 4 rabbits, 2 rats and 1 unidentified bird... this week.
He is particularly fond of doing this whilst I'm on teleconferences when he knows I can do nothing about it as he wonders past me with his latest prize and calmly moves into the kitchen/dining area.
He is particularly fond of doing this whilst I'm on teleconferences when he knows I can do nothing about it as he wonders past me with his latest prize and calmly moves into the kitchen/dining area.
I am now quite lucky in that my older cat doesn't hunt anything smaller than other cats/foxes nowdays, although the younger one will bring his new toy in, show me and then take it outside again without prompting.
Although he did go through a phase of bringing home Squirrel tails (just the tails) earlier this year, i had 4 deposited in various places at home over a week.
The presents that get left at the back door can be seasonal, May was Lizard month, April almost entirely made up of birds and currently for June it has been split between Grass Snakes and Rats.
Love him, but getting woken up by the little git just to show me a half dead rat at 4am on a saturday morning can be a little vexing.Curse you my feline overlords Bloody cats
Although he did go through a phase of bringing home Squirrel tails (just the tails) earlier this year, i had 4 deposited in various places at home over a week.
The presents that get left at the back door can be seasonal, May was Lizard month, April almost entirely made up of birds and currently for June it has been split between Grass Snakes and Rats.
Love him, but getting woken up by the little git just to show me a half dead rat at 4am on a saturday morning can be a little vexing.
How old is she? Mine used to do this a lot till he was about three, then he seemed to grow out of it. It's always worse at this time of year as well. My particular favourites were a live mouse scurrying about my bed in the middle of the night, the frog in the end of my shoe, and the rat that crawled under my bed to die and I didn't know about it until it started to rot and the maggots turned into flies......
Cats. Who'd have em.
Cats. Who'd have em.
obviously on an off night. Ours is a shocker. He reguarly brings in frogs, mice (alive and dead), moths etc. His particular penchant is for baby birds, he eats everything bar the head which he proudly leaves for us.
He then sits on the back of the sofa looking like he's got an upset belly for a few hours. Then he goes out looking for more.
He's an idiot..
ATM, he's trying to work out how to get to the woodpigeons in our fir tree.
I swear he's a psychopath.
He then sits on the back of the sofa looking like he's got an upset belly for a few hours. Then he goes out looking for more.
He's an idiot..
ATM, he's trying to work out how to get to the woodpigeons in our fir tree.
I swear he's a psychopath.
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