do your cats bring in creatures and release them in your home?

[pstokely]

I had a cat that brought in birds that could still fly and live assorted rodents. She would chase them in the house until I caught the creature and set it free.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. I cannot get my cat to move off the bed so I can make it. He doesn't

have it in him. The outside is scary to Merlin. I literally have to move him around on the bed while he yells at me to get it made. :hi:

[xchrom]

...

:rofl:

[riona]

2. You're Merlin's human

He's not Your Cat. :rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. There is so much truth to that. He knows it.

My daughter is the one who feeds him and he practically tackles her when she gets in the door, he's starving so badly. ;)

[Blue_Roses]

13. Hi there

My cat's name is Merlin too:D and he too, won't get off the bed for anything! In fact, when he lays in the floor he expects us to walk over him. I have spoiled him rotten, but I love him so much.

Anyway, thought that was cool to see another "Merlin" out there:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Hi! Our Merlin does the same thing. He lays on his back with his

big belly hanging out and glowers at us. He is really affectionate...when he wants to be. :)

[GCP]

4. One of our cats once brought a live squirrel in

It was like that scene from "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" - a bunch of kids and adults running away from the squirrel!
It finally got between the window and screen and we let it out from the outside.

[meegbear]

5. Mine just brought me a bird last week ...

it was dead, but it was sweet of her, bless her heart.

[Heidi]

6. Yes, The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger does that.

I'm OK with catching and releasing most of his living prey, but big ol' field mice freak me out a little bit. :scared:

[khashka]

7. Cats think we can't hunt

so they treat us like kittens and bring us food. Unfortunately their idea of dinner involves live animals. So you smile, pet them and do not eat the animals!


Khash.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

11. If you REALLY loved your cat, you'd eat the animals.

I'm just sayin... :D

[Squeech]

8. No

In the first place (and for the first time in my cat-companion life) we have only indoor cats now.

In the second place, they seem unable to actually catch anything. Just this morning, I heard, and briefly saw, a mouse. They were playing with it, but they either couldn't coordinate well enough to catch it, or just possibly they made an executive decision that they'd have more fun if they let it go and hunted it again tomorrow.

(That last theory is unlikely. They've only recently developed any tolerance for each other, let alone cooperation.)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. No, the only one that hunts, kills swiftly.

He doesn't play. He just pounces and kills.

[dipsydoodle]

10. My cats don't need to

Pidgeons fly down the chimney occasionally into the living room. I have to shut the 3 cats, all of which are house cats, out of the room to avoid unbridled chaos while I catch the pidgeon for release back into the garden.

[LynneSin]

12. My Evita has twice brought in a songbird

and Evita is a full-time indoor cat - she's very talented at finding bizarre openings by my air conditioning unit to reach her paw out and grab a bird.

Of course both birds were barely alive when I got to them. She's not trying to bring in new friends but takeout dinner

[NV Whino]

15. Yes

Voles, moles, gophers. They (he at the moment) don't understand the concept of kill them and eat them outside.

Also a couple lizards and snakes on occasion. The frogs come in on their own.

[pstokely]

20. They don't eat them, they release them indoors and chase them

[NV Whino]

21. 50/50 in my case

The lizards and snakes are generally alive. The rodents are sometimes alive. The cat loses them and loses interest. Then I have a damned mouse/vole/gopher/vole hiding behind cupboards or bookshelves for weeks. I had one that refused the peanutbutter or fresh apple or tomato in the no kill traps and decided to go into the storage area and eat the ant bait. Go figure.

I still haven't found the frog that came in on it's own the other day. I expect he'll turn up a few weeks from now in a highly desiccated state.

[reyd reid reed]

16. Not right now

But that's mostly because I keep most of the cats inside these days. And the oldest one, who still goes out, hasn't brought something in for a while. When she was younger, though....

Oh, yeah. She'd bring 'em in, drop 'em under the table and chase 'em until I rescued them and took them back outside.

It's just what cats Do...because they love you.

[life_long_dem]

17. Our cat isn't quite strong enough to open the sliding glass door,

thank goodness. Otherwise, our house would turn into a "small animal" zoo.

[MissB]

18. Yes. I lost a vacuum cleaner once.

The vacuum cleaner was temporarily stored on an enclosed porch. My cat brought in a rodent through the dog's door and let it go. It crawled up into the vacuum and died.

I didn't discover any of this until I brought the vacuum in and turned it on.

[Kashka-Kat]

19. Yes, I have a house well stocked with mice now.

Didn't used to have mice but now I do. Most people have cats to RID their house of pests. Not me!

[NMDemDist2]

22. yup, birds and lizards

we had to chase her off last night. she was headed for the door with something in her mouth

DH gets pissed if it's lizards (he loves our little fence critters) but I have to remind him Kitty is just "doing her job" and "bringing the Mom (me) presents"

i've captured lizards and birds several times and released them, but some days I get home and only find feathers

:cry:

[retrospective66]

23. Same issue here

But when Lionel got wise to my disgust of the whole thing, he hid the birds and such until he came in, Then... let them go in the house waking my baby (now 21) and causing general mayhem. What a nutty genious he was. May you rest in peace Lionel. A better Maine Coon there never was, in my eyes. :-)