anyone know anything about cat behaviour??

RainbowLass · #1 26-09-10, 06:35 PM

ok, so for the past 11 months i have had the sweetest pair of cats, littermates Smokey and the Bandit, lapcats, cuddlecats.... run around the house and chase each other cats.

Now, Bandit, the tom has had a few skirmishes with smaller animals, but as far as i know has never CAUGHT anything....
Until now!!!

He is stockpiling animals in next door's garden (good job next door is EMPTY!) namely the hugest rat i've ever seen and tonight, a bird!
i've never seen him catch anything before.... do you think they are finally becoming proper cats, and not just lap ornaments?!

Any thoughts please, i've owned cats most of my life, but never cats and dogs together!

I'm kinda proud of them actually, it's about time they started doing what cat's SHOULD be doing!!!

don-don · #2 26-09-10, 08:25 PM

hi, my cat Oggy is always bringing 'presents' home! from rubbish (such as empty crisp packets etc) to small animals!!

i think its all part and parcel of being a cat! i dont like it but cant really stop her bringing these home - but i dont allow her to bring it into the house!

DelsMum · #3 26-09-10, 08:36 PM

I had a hysterical screaming phone call from a lady I work with last week, her cat Buzz had very thoughtfully bought a live rat the size of a small dog into her living room, poor ratty had legged it under a piece of furniture and she couldn't get it out!

RainbowLass · #4 26-09-10, 09:35 PM

lol, thats great.... i can just imagine the look on that ladies face!!

My last cat was a great hunter, she brought stuff home all the time, pity she didn't always kill it first.
She would time it just right for me to let her in first thing in the morning... so a phonecall to work later...
'erm, i'm gonna be a bit late'
'why's that?'
'well, i've got a sparrow going crackers in my living room and i need to catch it before i come out or it will sh*t all over the carpets....'

the thing i don't quite get is why they are doing this now, and not for the past 11 months. I've never had anything from them before, its wierd!
maybe its because Rogue keeps eating their food..........

J&J · #5 28-09-10, 11:27 PM

My two cats it's frogs? We now have a special frog catching jar sat on the kitchen window seal, so that they can be caught and taken up the lane out to be released out of the cats way...

But Lemmy other half cat he had when I first moved in with him was amazing what he would bring back..

The flat was in the town centre near the towns river... Lemmy would bring home seagulls, KFC's box's in carrier bags, and old muddy shopping bag which had retrieved from the river banks now that stunk... Basically anything he found and could drag back to the flat, and if he could get it through the window he would...

#6 29-09-10, 01:57 PM

It's just cats being cats. My two were Norweigan forest cats so very friendly personable cats, loved being with you, followed you around like dogs - no cat snootiness.

But outside - totally different...Two killers! The female would regard anything slightly smaller than herself as prey, including rabbits.

The male just stayed with small prey like mice, voles etc. Sometimes he'd bring them to me alive so I'd rescue them... holding a tiny doormouse in your hand is quite special.

I miss my =^..^= RIP Molly and Jake xx

#7 29-09-10, 03:00 PM

Out of my five cats only one brings presents
Odin my tabby and my youngest
I think they do it to please you

and a natural part of being a cat

RainbowLass · #8 29-09-10, 04:00 PM

aw, thanks all!

I couldn't help but laugh this morning when a lady knocked on my door from the agents that are selling the house next door to mine.

She looked slightly embarassed to ask me to remove the rotting corpses from the garden as she took a lady outside today and discovered a nice big (dead) rat lying under the fence.
She said she was surprised i couldn't hear her screaming...

i told her i would, and that next time she had people around i'd sneakily let the puppy out to say hello... she was pleased with that....

Overlook · #9 02-10-10, 04:34 PM

Jones is a mouser. We discovered this at a young age when he brought his first mouse home. It was still attached to the trap that had killed it (yes he dragged a mouse in a trap home) but what can you do when the hunter gene is there!

One thing I would say though is we did lose a cat to (we think) eating poisoned rats. Unfortunately where we live is alive with them and people do put poison down and Simon did display all the symptons of rat poisoning.