Do your fur-babies . . .

Play exterminator for you?

Luna does. We used to have problems with centipedes (God, how I hate those things), but now I only find a leg or antenna here and there. That's it. I haven't seen one since we got Luna. Needless to say, I'm thrilled. She kills any bug that manages to get in here. And unlike my mom's cats, she "cleans up," too. My mom's cats kill the bug, then leave it for my mom to find.

Yep! Zoey can catch a fly and eat it before I can say "Get it Zoey!!!" I mean, I could try to catch a fly and it would probly take me 3 hours

She kills spiders too

DEFINITELY a perk to owning a cat, IMO!

my two fellas would catch all those flying insects and cockroaches, lizards but they never clean up after themselves....

I usualy don't give a bug more then 10 minutes in my house . It is so funny to watch them with a fly , 10 or so cats running after one fly

I think I have had about a dozen flys in my house all summer. The cats don't stop until it has been devoured.

LOL, Hedi! I'll bet that's hilarious!

Originally posted by PurrfectCatlove
I usualy don't give a bug more then 10 minutes in my house

. It is so funny to watch them with a fly , 10 or so cats running after one fly

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You gotta take some pictures of this. Do the cats break things as they go on the hunt?

Opie and Rowdy are champion flycatchers. Buddy likes to chase but, he can't catch, worth a hoot. Opie snags them, right out of the air, between his pads. Both he and Rowdy eat them.

Nakita is the same. Unfortunately, she insists on killing everything in our backyard when we take her out for walks. Try running after a cat, on a leash, killing every insect (crawling or flying)in sight.

Let's just say our walks are quite the adventure!

Slave2_Ragdolls they cant break anything any more . I don't have anything what could be brocken around .Well sometimes when we watch TV and they run like crazy , sometimes they run over our had or body it can be scary for a moment if you don't know what in the heck is going on

Originally posted by AuroraViva
Play exterminator for you?

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Unfortunately, most of the time Ivo just plays...She loves chasing flies and fruit flies around the apartment and out in the hallway, but usually I have to shoo them out or put them out of their misery (after Ivo has pawed and licked them near to death). She was really interested in a bee that flew into the apartment once, but I quickly killed and flushed it before she quite knew what was going on (I didn't want her to get stung). Also, I occasionally get the big palmetto roaches (the big copper-colored ones) in the apartment-they crawl up along the pipes from the basement. Most times Ivo has a lot of fun chasing them around, but I have to kill them. Although one morning I woke up to roach parts (legs and wings) lying on the floor. I don't know about anyone else, when I see a bug my first instinct is to kill it, and to heck with what Ivo might do...

Feykirófa hunts and eats all flies that come inside, well, except for that bumble bees, she brings them in herself and think they are the most exciting toys...

Sometimes I help her, just to get the hunting over with, and hold her close to the cieling, or wherever the flie is, and she really apriciates the help

She will chase a fly around the livingroom so fast her feet never touch the floor and hits the vertical blinds which sounds like skeleton bones rattling. When she finally nails it, she carefully gets down onto the carpet, opens her mouth gently, AND LETS THE FREAKIN' FLY GO!! So......she can start all over again. That way she gets more mileage out of her fly. The other seven cats just lay around and watch her whoosh by and kinda duck, as do I and my Mom. You could lose an ear as she zips by. She's the youngest at one year old so she hasn't worn out this game yet.

I haven't noticed any of my kitties playing exterminator yet! I did see Peaches stalk a spider once. But that's as far as it went.

OHHHHHHHHHH, yeah. Well, Suzy and Cindy don't do much, but Fawn is our little predator.

She's forever bringing "prezzies" home, but fortunately she also contributes her talents to the household bug population. Flies, moths, yes, centipedes, spiders. Lots of times I've come upon her still toying with something, and said, "OK Fawn, time to finish him off," and a startling number of times, she'll look up at me, and then take the creature and eat him. She brings worms in, when it's rainy -- big fat ones. I've never seen her eat one of those, and she does leave them lying around to dry out. UGH.

Tailer does. I've even held her up to insects on the ceiling to "get" them and she always does. Toes doesn't even have a clue.

Yes, it's definitely a perk to owning a cat.

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Tailer does. I've even held her up to insects on the ceiling to "get" them and she always does

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I do the same with Chivu!!
At first he didn't understand, but now I only have to pick him up and he immediately starts checking the walls. He's not the least bit scared when I hold him high above my head, only totally devoted to the task of catching spiders

yes yes,,,we use to have a horrible fly problem, but not anymore...they love those things!

Unfortunately, no. With 15 cats, you would think at least ONE of them would help out.

They chase moths through the house, and beat them through the screen. Blondie ate a bee last year and half his face was swollen from the sting he got, for about 3 hours.

They ate crickets in the basement, but that's a different story..