One this afternoon/late morning. Mostly intact. Another ~a week ago torn to shreds.

I don't like this. Also, this seems like a cat thing as I'd expect most animals would kill and then piss off will all of their pray, instead of leaving corpses lying around...

Also, their mostly deer mice.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I don’t like this. Also, this seems like a cat thing as I’d expect most animals would kill and then piss off will all of their pray, instead of leaving corpses lying around…

    I'm terrible with cats IRL but that's a very normal behavior for them. If it's your cat, it's because they think that you're a helpless little baby who can not hunt your own food and is gifting its own hunted food to you. I don't know how to stop this behavior, other than to demonstrate to your cat your own mouse hunting capabilities, however

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      My childhood cat would bring live mice to my baby sister. Then when baby sister failed to eat the live mice, the cat would bring back beheaded corpses (like little mouse families all line up it was very gruesome lol) and them disassembled corpses. I'm sure in the cats mind she was being super helpful but we didn't need it... it's one of the reasons I never let my own cats go outdoors even before I knew how bad they could be for the environment and shit.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        2 years ago
        gross

        I had a dog who would eat moles. We would discover this when he'd vomit half a mole, and then we'd follow him around for the rest of the day waiting for him to throw up the other half.

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I have a tiny little dog as well. She was never much of the hunter but she would still attack and gnaw on anything gross she could get her little mouth on. The only thing she could catch were just house spiders though

        • userse31 [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          The dog stays inside though. Only going outside to piss and shit.

          • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            I really got no idea then. If you really want to figure it out you could set up a trail cam where you keep finding them?

    • edge [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I don’t know how to stop this behavior

      Don't let your cat roam free outside. Or at the very least put a bell on them so potential prey get a warning.

      • knifestealingcrow [any]
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        2 years ago

        I've read somewhere that bells just make them better hunters in the long run, they just learn to move without jingling it

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          This is absolutely true, i've never heard of a cat with a bell that didn't keep bringing home dead animals. They also fucking loathe the things and will keep scratching their collar at the same spot for months until it falls off.

          • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            will keep scratching their collar at the same spot for months until it falls off.

            :kelly: The Pawshank Redemption