One of the joys of cat "ownership" is the little gifts they bring you. Not content with the ordinary things like sparrows, my cats have brought a few interesting things home over the years.


1 - Earthworms. I had a pair of cats that would go out & hunt earthworms (the bigger the better) after heavy rains had brought them to the surface, then bring them indoors. If I was "lucky" I'd find the worms, if not - well, a carpet is not a naturally tenable environment for a worm that prefers damp soil, so I'd often find completely dessicated worms stuck to the carpet when it came to moving furniture.

2 - A set of false teeth. I've still got no idea where they came from, I wasn't about to knock on all the neighbours doors saying "Excuse me, did a cat steal your false teeth?"

3 - A parrot. The phrase "Argghhh! Jasper's caught a parrot!!!" tends to stick in your mind... and he had. It was the only thing he _ever_ caught. I think it had been smuggled in by some dodgy neighbours down the street. He spotted it the same time I did, sprinted across the lawn, bounced over the 6ft fence, grabbed it, ran back, jumped over the fence again, ran in through the cat flap & dropped the uninjured bird & sat watching it. I don't think he knew what to do next.

4 - A partridge. Just a bird, but when your 6lb Siamese catches a 9lb-er, it's quite impressive.

5 - A heron. The same cat _tried_ to catch one anyway, I don't she realised how big they are - 7ft wingspan & stand about 4ft high. One landed in the neighbours' pond & started gobbling up the fish. I watched my cat stalk it - all 200ft down the garden, into the field behind, along a bit, then up my neighbours' garden. She was within pouncing range when it stood up opened it wings and stared right at her. She fell on her belly & lay there quivering with fear. Once it flew off, she ran in mewing constantly ("meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow", etc), and hid under my bed for several hours.

6 - A skipping rope. Maybe the cat thought it was an earthworm

7 - A pair of gloves. Knitted ones, with a string connecting them. They belonged to the kid next door, who got in quite a bit of trouble with their Dad for losing them -
Parent - Where are your gloves?
Kid - The cat took them.
Parent - Don't be stupid, what would a cat want with your gloves? Where did you lose them?
Kid - I didn't lose them, the cat took them.
Etc, etc, culminating in the kid getting sent to her room.
Boy, was he embarrassed when we returned the gloves.

8 - A smoked kipper.

9 - Mice. Not unusual of course, it's what they do with them once they're caught:
9a - Training. Imagine the scenario - cat comes in through the flap - "Mwwaaauuuw! Mwwaaauuuw!" (that's what a cat sounds like with a mouse in it's mouth), & keeps on mwwaaauuuw-ing until it sees me. _Then_ it lets the mouse go, & when I don't immediately pounce on it, the cat looks at me as if to say "The ingratitude! I caught that mouse specially to train you, and you can't be bothered to chase after it? Well, if you can't be bothered, I can't either", then goes outside & chases leaves or something.
9b - Racing. If you've got more that one cat you'll know about mouse racing, where they all go out & catch one, bring it indoors & simultaneously let them go to see who caught the fastest mouse.

10 - Pigeons. Again, not that impressive (although the pigeons round here are twice the size of an average duck), unless your cat catches one, drags it into your afraid-of-cats neighbours garden, then plucks it so efficiently you'd think it'd been snowing.

AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!
Dogs rule cats drool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Out little mutt nabbed a tiny rabbit a couple weeks ago. My wife and I were sitting on the deck and we were throwing the ball and the dog would return it and drop it at our feet. While my wife and I were talking, the dog drops something right on my wife's shoe. Without looking, she reached down to grab it, thinking it was the ball. When she latched onto that rabbit she completely freaked out. I laughed so hard I couldn't breath.

Nice Jonny - had a few good laughs in there.

My old cat used to just play "whack-a-mouse" where he would catch a mouse sit at the top of my driveway and drop the mouse right between his paws. If the mouse moved then "WHACK". He would sit there for hours killing mice.

We have a cat named Daisy which on more than one occasion has brought rats to the back porch. Some mice too.

I had a neighbor who had a big orange cat that had just had kittens. When we went out into the back yard to pick a few pomegranites, I noticed the big tabby sitting in front of a broom stick just staring at the end of it. And all the kittens sitting quietly around it, just staring. Odd behavoir for kittens to say the least.


Upon closer inspection the "broom stick" turned out to be a 5 ft. Diamondback rattlesnake. Apparently frozen in the cats gaze, straight as a plank. My neighbor freaked and I grabbed a shovel from the garden shed and took the rattlers head off. Damndest thing I've ever seen.

at my friends bday party, his cat found a chipmunk outside and subsequently killed it. we saw the cat playing with it outside and thought nothing of it. later on, we were all in the kitchen, and the cat brings the chipmunk right behind my friend and lets it go on the floor. my friend goes to turn around, steps back, and **CRUNCH** steps on the chipmunk! he must have jumped about 3 feet he was so surprised, and the cat just stared at him like "wtf man!". the best part was when another friend came in with 2 cups over each other, gives it to the 1st friend, and says happy birthday! and the chipmunk was in there.

here is one of my cats. this was the waif that was hanging out at our backdoor that I was told not to let in but did anyway.

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My lab puppy has an earthworm fetish too - lack of certain proteins in the diet?

-MF

J-Dogg are you setting us up for a bad pun?

Not really but I just caught it.

Our old cat used to catch mice, then torture the things. She liked to step on its tail and hold it there, let go, it runs a few feet, she then would bat it into a wall, or somw how launch it in the air then play a little baseball with it. Oddest thing I've seen.

Also, our German Shepard in the winter used to go hunt and catch feild mice. I have no idea how a 90 pound dog could catch mice in a snowy feild.

Cant wait till Karma kicks yo in the ass walrus, I just hope your smart emough t realize it.

Dog stories:
My mini schnauzer (Charlie) caught a baby bird once, was throwing it a couple feet into the air, catching it, then throwing it up again. I think he was trying to teach it how to fly.
He also used to take cat crap out of the sand box in our back yard and bring them inside.

My neighbors have a big black mutt, I was watching it while they drove to the Mall of America, and he chased down and killed a groundhog. Not only did he kill it, he proceeded to lick it all over. Once we managed to get it away from him and throw it out, he spent the next couple of hours trying to wash off his tongue in the water bowl. Now we've got a groundhog under our shed, I'm wondering what Charlie is going to do about it. It's about the same size he is.