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mehuk

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I have 2 cats and the last 2 days they have left a dead blackbird outside the backdoor.

Now I know this is supposed to be a gift and once I have 4 and twenty I can bake a pie, however is this likely to continue?

Will they keep bringing them back, or do they get bored of it?

I ask as the misses hates birds/rodents and if the later arrives the world will wake up with the shreiking :D
 
When I were a lad, we had three cats. They never got bored of it. Killing small animals was probably their third favourite thing, after sleeping and eating. Usually mice and rats. There was a long-disused railway cutting nearby (tracks removed decades earlier) and they probably hunted there.

I think it is likely to continue.
 
You have had two dead birds and think that's bad. One of my cats (Abby 2 years old) has declared open warfare on the local wildlife population. Last month she killed/caught 42 animals. These were a mix of voles, shrews and birds. Over half were alive and we had "fun" chasing them around the house to catch them and let them loose in the field. This month she is already on 51 animals and there are still 3 days left to go!!
 
Wow don't feel so bad for myself having heard that. Although my cat likes to keep control of the bird population by finding nests and grabbing the babys. :s
 
I think that you will find that it will begin to slow down. Not because they get bored, but because the birds in the area will learn not to go around your parts.

When my cat died, hundreds of birds pooped on my car as a sign to say "we're back!!mwhahaha"
 
I came in here expecting to hear about the latest band sensation from South America and I got was dead birds.
 
pastymuncher said:
You have had two dead birds and think that's bad. One of my cats (Abby 2 years old) has declared open warfare on the local wildlife population. Last month she killed/caught 42 animals. These were a mix of voles, shrews and birds. Over half were alive and we had "fun" chasing them around the house to catch them and let them loose in the field. This month she is already on 51 animals and there are still 3 days left to go!!
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So we know who to blame if they become extinct ;)
 
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At least your cats all catch things... the only things my male cats ever brought home was half a dead pigeon that'd been hit by a car earlier, and one cooked smoked haddock fillet (still warm)
 
How old are your cats? I have 2 boy cats (brothers) at just over 2 years old and only one is a hunter - pretty much started as soon as he was allowed out of the house.

He started off quite slowly with the odd mouse brought in and frog, thankfully still alive so I was able to release back in to the garden.

After about a year he started getting more serious and bringing in birds, the worst one being a live fully grown magpie that he decided to release in the bloody house. Cue me having to catch the damned thing at 8am in just a pair of pants and pink marigolds (don't ask).

I was hoping he would grow out of it and things would calm down however they haven't and I don't expect them to, so I'm afraid it is something that you're going to have to live with.
 
We get the odd bird or mouse. I bury them in the flowerbeds.

Always fun when they're not quite dead and you have to stave their head in with something.
 
Our three are doing quite a number on the local wildlife at the moment. Hopefully it'll ease up as we head towards winter. It doesnt help that our house backs on to a massive field.

We've had voles, mice, small birds (not enough let to work out what) slightly larger birds (same again) and a couple of frogs.

It bothers me that they bring them indoors but the animal itself and what has been done to it I don't mind. At the end of the day a cat is a hunter. It's going to hunt. Its what all cats do. Finding the intestines of a mouse on your dining room floor isn't exactly nice but there we go.

The frogs have been the worst though. They sit still like they are dead and just as you go to scoop them up they leap. At least with the mice and the voles if they are alive they try and run.

I've had to put a few mice and voles out of their misery though. Not something I particularly like doing but it is far more humane than leaving them at the mercy of the cat or leaving them to die slowly in the garden.
 
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