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.
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thats it we are putting a bell on you so the mice can hear you coming
I thought me putting all that loose change in my coat pockets already did the trick! :ooooooooooooooh:
Yeah you probably have a stray or outdoor cat that's allowed to roam hunting about OP.
This definitely sounds like a cat, but it's also not unusual to just find dead animals outside. I wouldn't be worried so long as it's not like odd in some other way
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
I've read somewhere that bells just make them better hunters in the long run, they just learn to move without jingling it
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.
will keep scratching their collar at the same spot for months until it falls off.
:kelly: The Pawshank Redemption
My cat used to have a signature thing where he'd eat only the upper half, then leave the legs and for some reason lungs
Alternative theory; Sometimes mice and rats will hide in your cars engine to keep warm. And when you start the engine they get sucked into your belts and are then chucked out of the car. All ripped up. Happens slot where I life. I've actually had a rat knock the belts off my car when I killed it. I was like what's all this hair? Fixed it, moved the car, then found the mauled rat.
be careful cleaning them up if you are doing that, deer mice carry hantavirus, though their droppings are more of a vector than corpses iirc
You should have a frank conversation with your local IT person, tell them that's a waste of good hardware
Very normal. Nothing to be worried about. The ritual will be complete soon, don’t worry.
