Live cat presents brought in....
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Over the years, in addition to the normal small rodents and birds, highlights have included a (mutant black) squirrel, an agitated and very much alive stoat (bath towel and motorcycle gauntlets job), a big toad, and several pipistrelle bats...
Back from the pub tonight to find this wee fella scuttling across the kitchen floor... smooth newt I think, intact and very wriggly
Why on earth would a cat field that? There's not a pond anywhere near either...
Back from the pub tonight to find this wee fella scuttling across the kitchen floor... smooth newt I think, intact and very wriggly
Why on earth would a cat field that? There's not a pond anywhere near either...
I have a couple of ponds and one is a good breeding ground for newts and frogs and the mild weather here in the south has kept them hunting for food and not hibernating/sheltering from the cold conditions, they can travel far from ponds but return to where they came from in spring..
My cat once brought in a bearded dragon which was miles from any desert..
My cat once brought in a bearded dragon which was miles from any desert..
Edited by blueveloce on Sunday 29th October 09:36
Fortunately, ours focus on quantity rather than quality, so we just get lots of mice and shrews running around, with the odd bluetit or sparrow. We've only once had a baby rabbit mooch past in the kitchen, but there was a mole lying dead in the middle of a LOT of red footprints one morning.
There was the time the brown psychopath came in with the tail end of a bird poking out of her mouth - out the kitchen door, back in the front door catflap, out the kitchen door again - and she tripped and the bird escaped, 45deg upwards... She'd caught a sodding swift.
Mind you, the idiot boy did chase a buzzard up the oak tree the other week...
There was the time the brown psychopath came in with the tail end of a bird poking out of her mouth - out the kitchen door, back in the front door catflap, out the kitchen door again - and she tripped and the bird escaped, 45deg upwards... She'd caught a sodding swift.
Mind you, the idiot boy did chase a buzzard up the oak tree the other week...
In my old house my cat one summer brought back quite a few slow worms and every April/May time I would get a newt a week at least. Likewise, there was no public pond around. Most of the newts I got were missing the tail though. The other cat she didn't catch a thing while at that house.
Sam the cat loves pigeon chicks. Mostly murdered and entrails left for me. It keeps their population down, as we seem to have a huge amount locally after the demolition of a roost for hundreds locally . Also, when we got Rosie the dog, Sam left a dead rat by the side on the bed. Usually though , he brings mice in live to play with. We have had a few to trap as it sends the dogs loopy knowing that they are behind the fridge or cooker.
Once though he was not popular and murdered Scruffy the robin, who we used to watch . Problem is, he has a magnet on his collar , so we cant find a bell that isnt magnetic.
Once though he was not popular and murdered Scruffy the robin, who we used to watch . Problem is, he has a magnet on his collar , so we cant find a bell that isnt magnetic.
Justin S said:
Sam the cat loves pigeon chicks. Mostly murdered and entrails left for me. It keeps their population down, as we seem to have a huge amount locally after the demolition of a roost for hundreds locally . Also, when we got Rosie the dog, Sam left a dead rat by the side on the bed. Usually though , he brings mice in live to play with. We have had a few to trap as it sends the dogs loopy knowing that they are behind the fridge or cooker.
Once though he was not popular and murdered Scruffy the robin, who we used to watch . Problem is, he has a magnet on his collar , so we cant find a bell that isnt magnetic.
Change your catflap to microchip reading type rather than magnet. Once though he was not popular and murdered Scruffy the robin, who we used to watch . Problem is, he has a magnet on his collar , so we cant find a bell that isnt magnetic.
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