One of my cats caught, killed, and partially ate a mouse about a year ago. DH heard her chasing it in the middle of the night, I found the head the next morning. Ewww!
Now that's a feat! They have very sharp teeth.Originally Posted by maverick_kitten
my friends cat brought him a badger!
No way! I thought they only ate insects too! That's amazing. Poor chooks always get a rough deal.Originally Posted by jcat
Now that's a feat! They have very sharp teeth.
This is a weird hunting story. One of my students lives on a farm, and about two months ago they found that they were missing chickens, so they set up web cams in the chicken coop. They suspected a cat or fox. The culprit was a big old hedgehog! I didn't believe it till he brought in a CD of the hedgehog in action. I thought they just ate insects.
I freaked out when I saw the footage. I always wear leather gloves when dealing with hedgehogs, because they're usually infested with ticks and lung worms. It never entered my mind that they could/would kill anything that wasn't bite-sized.Originally Posted by pushylady
No way! I thought they only ate insects too! That's amazing. Poor chooks always get a rough deal.
That pretty much sums up my experience, except that once in a while after they kill it, they tuck it into something interesting like my briefcase or under my pillow.Originally Posted by hissy
All my cats at one time or another have had a mouse. Instead of giving you 14 descriptions- basically they do one of three things- play with it until they torment it to death. Snatch it up and kill it then race around the house with it in their mouth growling all the time- or play with it until they are bored, without fatally injuring it then it escapes through the wire (I have an outside enclosure)
Ewwww & ewwww.Originally Posted by Momofmany
That pretty much sums up my experience, except that once in a while after they kill it, they tuck it into something interesting like my briefcase or under my pillow.