Now my cat's a murderer: the Mika saga continues

[JCMach1]

My once innocent little kitten has turned herself into the most blood thirsty cat I have ever had... No bird our rodent is safe.

Within just the past 24 hours she has taken out 2 birds and brought one VERY CUTE desert mouse in the house. I only managed to save the mouse. That's just one day... IF we let her out SHE KILLS.

On the upside, she is one of the smartest cats I have ever owned. She actually fetches balls. I will roll a ball for her to swipe at and play and she picks it up in her mouth and DROPS IT IN MY HAND. I have never seen a cat do that before.

I have had cats who hunted before, but it was relatively unfocused... although I did have a cat with a snake vendetta once.

Is anyone else's cat a cold-blooded killer?

[FireHeart]

1. Some cats...

Possess a stronger nature to hunt than others. We've had a variety of them over the years. Some wouldn't hurt a fly. Others would hunt and kill anything that moved and was smaller than they were. Heck, back in Hawaii, I had a male (neutered, too) who killed a mongoose--and brought it home as a trophy. :(


Ewwww.

[aquart]

3. And did you praise the Mighty Mongoose Hunter?

Not many can bring down a mongoose.

[FireHeart]

15. Well, no we didn't.

The last thing we needed was a daily supply of dead mongoose. Demon (a name justly deserved) was a terror to small (or even larger) animals, but loved people. One of the most hilarious sights we ever saw was Demon chasing this big German Shepherd out of our yard. Poor dog was yelping all the way down the street.

He was a very big cat and extremely powerful. Never met another quite like him...

[spinbaby]

8. One of ours killed a weasel once

I'd had no idea we even had weasels around here.

[aquart]

2. Why, yes.

Your cat is especially smart and if she had to fend for herself, her family would never go hungry. She is a MIGHTY HUNTER and deserves nothing but praise.

Why are you letting a house cat out?

[JCMach1]

4. Perfectly safe here...

plus she demands it... she RUNS out or tricks with things like skulking and hiding behind the stairs until some unsuspecting person comes by.

Also, she does some of her killing in our garden courtyard. :(

[Melsky]

5. Mine is a hunter

[wysimdnwyg]

13. What the heck is that?

A lizard?

[LiberalVoice]

6. Do you think this is related to her being muslim aswell?

lol...




p.s. I hope no one took offence to that remark. I am muslim and making a joke. :-P

[ET Awful]

7. Well Quinn hunts and kills things that aren't there. . . .

does that count?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Is she getting enough protein?

Cats will start killing when they don't have enough protein in their diets. Also, killing birds and mice is instinctive to cats. We've had cats out at the farm just for that purpose. There are a bunch out there now that we don't feed so that they will eat all the mice. My mom told me the other day she hasn't seen a mouse all winter. It's nothing to be alarmed about. Just up her protein in her diet.
It's something they crave.
Duckie

[zanana]

10. She's such a cute little sociopath!

Isn't it a jolt when you find out that sweet little fluffy purring angel likes to rip birds to shreds? That's nature; we have to accept all of it, I guess.

[trof]

11. A MIGHTY hunter is our Ace!

A mighty hunter, he.
He stalks the squirrel and tiny mouse.
Brings birds down from the tree.

We scold him and berate him.
We try to make him see.
He listens with indifference,
and tells us "That's just ME".

You may as well try and teach a ball not to roll.
Ace came to us as a stray, so maybe his hunting instincts were honed while he was fending for himself.
In his younger days I've seen him lie on his back on the sidewalk, with legs outstretched, eyes closed. "Dead cat." And the blue jays would swoop lower and lower at him, getting braver and braver, until...GOTCHA!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. I once had a cat that fetched balls

She died at 2 years (fell off apartment window). Haven't had a pet ever since. :cry:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. back in her younger days

our cat Nikita was a cold-blooded killing machine. During the spring and summer not a day would go by when there wasn't something dead on the porch...mice, birds, rats, rabbits and even a snake. I kept waiting to find one of the neighbor kids on the front porch...

She has slowed down a lot...kind of like hitting retirement I suppose. She still has lots of life...just directs it in different paths...

TheProdigal

[Archae]

16. My cats are bug predators.

Longest I've seen a bug last with my two killers is 3 hours.

But what they are best at is killing time. :boring: :-)

[radfringe]

17. Pookah the Terrible

our youngest cat (now 2 years old) is the hunter. She's managed to catch a few mice and 2 flying squirrels

but her most horrible "kill" was the total decapitation of a catnip mouse toy

I gave her a couple of catnip mice toys one afternoon, and within a half-hour I found one of them on the dog pillow - head was severed and it oozed catnip