Present from my cat.

[TrixiBuG]

Yeah, it happens. Rescue, wait for cat to forget about it and release.

Make sure you pop your birdy 'present' in a shoe box in a warm, quiet place, to minimize stress to the poor thing. But also don't be surprise that it is dead in a few hours anyway cause they only have tiny hearts and can panic themselves to death sometimes

 

[UncleRuckus]

Make sure you pop your birdy 'present' in a shoe box in a warm, quiet place, to minimize stress to the poor thing. But also don't be surprise that it is dead in a few hours anyway cause they only have tiny hearts and can panic themselves to death sometimes

Yep, it's the best thing to do.

Although, I had a spot of had luck once.

I kept the birdy in over night, in the morning he was fine so I took him outside to see if he was ready to go and he hopped on to the garden chair and was having a look around. Out of nowhere the neighbours cat tackled birdy and ran off, couldn't catch him and I was like:

 

[Musty Pie]

Make sure you pop your birdy 'present' in a shoe box in a warm, quiet place, to minimize stress to the poor thing. But also don't be surprise that it is dead in a few hours anyway cause they only have tiny hearts and can panic themselves to death sometimes

This.

Will be dead in a few hours if you have not done the above.

 

[schumi84]

Our cats caught their first dove yesterday, one of them had 2 feathers attached to his whiskers whilst the other had the dove in his mouth. Luckily I managed to catch him and get him to drop the bird, at which point it somehow managed to fly off.

Surprised it has taken this long really (about 3 years) as there are loads of pigeons and doves in the area however I wish they would start on the crows as at times it is like Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'.

 

[MeEsH BaKkA]

One of my cats was a prolific bird/frog/mouse catcher (frogs make a horrific noise) but he's a bit too old now, the other one is about 2 now and has never caught anything that I'm aware of... I put it down to being too ginger.

 

[randal]

Make sure you pop your birdy 'present' in a shoe box in a warm, quiet place, to minimize stress to the poor thing. But also don't be surprise that it is dead in a few hours anyway cause they only have tiny hearts and can panic themselves to death sometimes

Good shout, and yes sadly that has happened. In fact the last one she bought in was OK for 15 minutes, held it in my hand and then popped it in a box for a bit. Came back and it had shuffled off this mortal coil.

 

[Cosimo]

I kept the birdy in over night, in the morning he was fine so I took him outside to see if he was ready to go and he hopped on to the garden chair and was having a look around. Out of nowhere the neighbours cat tackled birdy and ran off, couldn't catch him and I was like:

I'll go to hell for laughing.

 

[Skidder]

Think yourself lucky, my dogs gave me a cat as a present.

 

[Craig1981]

Think yourself lucky, my dogs gave me a cat as a present.

Eep..... dead? :/

 

[Craig1981]

I'll go to hell for laughing.

Save me a seat mate. It is amusing in a darkly ironic kind of way

 

[platypus]

I had to rescue a bird a while back, it had hopped in one one leg the other being injured, and the cat didn't know what to make of it. Very sweet it was.

On another note, getting back from honeymoon, our cat had left several presents on the bathroom floor. His collar magnet had broken, and as a result he couldn't get out of the cat flap. I'm not entirely sure that the smell is completely gone yet...

 

[bledd]

On another note, getting back from honeymoon, our cat had left several presents on the bathroom floor. His collar magnet had broken, and as a result he couldn't get out of the cat flap. I'm not entirely sure that the smell is completely gone yet...

How did he eat?

 

[jamief]

Don't put a collar on your cat.

 

[Skidder]

Eep..... dead? :/

afraid so, one of the most horrible moments of my life (barring bereavement of family, terrible news etc.) was handing it over to my neighbour who was there

To be fair to the dogs it was sort of willing them to do it, by sitting on my barbecue staring at them smugly rather than running the **** away as it should have done.

 

[BigDannyO]

My cat is a ferocious hunter, and after one week of receiving various presents every day we thought we'd try a bell to stop her.

It inadvertently turned her into some kind of ninja cat that was able to still catch things without making the slightest sound.

 

[Xire]

My cat once caught a Rabbit. I was impressed.

 

[Beasty]

There's a cat that is around sometimes that had 4 bells on its collar and kept getting rid of the thing somehow, they've given up putting a collar on 'Little Dave' now.

 

[Skidder]

My cat once caught a Rabbit. I was impressed.

My dogs have caught rabbits, a fox (that was a pretty fair fight but they won), winged a crow that was flying low, squirrels and a hedgehog (they lost that one).

 

[UncleRuckus]

My cat once caught a Rabbit. I was impressed.

Hah I had a mate who's cat got extremely fat from eating and catching rabbits.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

This is what I love about cats, they are little ninja's in disguise.

A dog has a master.
A cat has staff.

My cats would lose a collar just as fast as you put them on so we didnt bother in the end, get em micro chipped and let em do what they do best. Hunt and bring you presents.