World's deadliest cat

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I saw this last week šŸ˜€

Iā€™ve got a cat that is now 15 years old. One thing Iā€™ve learned in the experience is not to forget these things are killers and predators. The cat is well fed, but it still routinely go out to kill things. I had to stop allowing it to come and go freely as it was a little disturbing to find a dead rabbit, decapitated bird, or an almost dead squirrel that had been discarded in the house. The cat still piled dead animals on the front door. I usually became aware of them when I saw solicitors come down my driveway , turn around, and walk away without knocking.

Iā€™ve got a couple of dogs too and donā€™t see them thrashing their squeaky toy as cute as I had before. With one of the live rabbits that got brought inside they heard it maki g a squeaky noise and instantly got excited and ready to jump into action. I realized the rabbitā€™s squeaks sound like their toys. With their toys they thrash them back and forth at the neck, rip them open, and find and extract the squeaky thing. Naturally I didnā€™t want the little rabbit subjected to that.

Donā€™t underestimate cats. They all have killer instincts.


I hope the little thing is okay.
 
ThinkingSapien said:
The cat still piled dead animals on the front door. I usually became aware of them when I saw solicitors come down my driveway , turn around, and walk away without knocking.
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We live in the country, set back from the road, so we rarely see solicitors, but if we lived where they were a problem, that would certainly be a means of defense. Perhaps a fake dead skunk . . .

On the broader topic, I rescued our odd-eyed white cat from a feral family because I discovered she was deaf, and I was concerned that she wouldnā€™t be able to hunt. She grew up to be a sharp-eyed visual hunter. She spends hours by the back door waiting for one of the skinks that live under the back deck comes thru the gap in the back door into the kitchen. However, when she catches one, she doesnā€™t brutalize it; she comes into the living room and cries until I get up, take the ā€œlittle dragonā€ away from her, and toss it back outside.

Edit: Please note that the first paragraph refers to a fake dead SKUNK, while the second paragraph refers to SKINKS, 2"-long reptiles.

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DaveBj said:
On the broader topic, I rescued our odd-eyed white cat from a feral family because I discovered she was deaf, and I was concerned that she wouldnā€™t be able to hunt. She grew up to be a sharp-eyed visual hunter. She spends hours by the back door waiting for one of the skinks that live under the back deck comes thru the gap in the back door into the kitchen.
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They cat I have I rescued from a family that didnā€™t want a cat and had relegated it to live in a garage. I thought that was no way to live. In her older age sheā€™s stopped going after mammals and birds as much but she still goes outside at night to swat at the moths and other bugs that can be found around the porch light.

Glad you defined skink. Both because I would have thought it was a typo and second because I now know what to call that live reptile the cat let loose in the house one time.
 
ThinkingSapien said:
The cat still piled dead animals on the front door.
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The cat was leaving you food. There are many that will do this for their owners.

And yes, cats in general are very well-equipped for murdering just about anything that moves within their line of vision, by and large.
 
ThinkingSapien said:
They cat I have I rescued from a family that didnā€™t want a cat and had relegated it to live in a garage. I thought that was no way to live. In her older age sheā€™s stopped going after mammals and birds as much but she still goes outside at night to swat at the moths and other bugs that can be found around the porch light.

Glad you defined skink. Both because I would have thought it was a typo and second because I now know what to call that live reptile the cat let loose in the house one time.
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Iā€™ve kept my two boys as indoor only cats, so no hunting trophies except for when a field mouse snuck inside.

I did set up a bird feeder outside a window, in front of a raised cat bed.
:My version of Cat TV, paying the cable bill was remembering to add birdseed.
 
Theo520 said:
Iā€™ve kept my two boys as indoor only cat
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Yeah, our two girls are indoors only, too. Iā€™ve been thinking about putting up a bird feeder outside the dining room nook window; we have a kitty shelf on one of the windows.

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DaveBj said:
Yeah, our two girls are indoors only, too. Iā€™ve been thinking about putting up a bird feeder outside the dining room nook window; we have a kitty shelf on one of the windows.
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DO IT, your cat will spend hours with keen interest, it getā€™s their blood moving just watching.

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Raxus said:
The cat was leaving you food. There are many that will do this for their owners.
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And here I was brushing the gift off to the side. If the cat really loved me like my momā€™s cat did it would leave me food on my pillow so it would be the to see when I open my eyes.
Theo520 said:
DO IT, your cat will spend hours with keen interest, it getā€™s their blood moving just watching.
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Weā€™ve got a bird feeder out on the back deck. Itā€™s just out of reach of the cat. She spends quit some time staring at the birds and making noises in their direction.
 
ThinkingSapien said:
Weā€™ve got a bird feeder out on the back deck. Itā€™s just out of reach of the cat. She spends quit some time staring at the birds and making noises in their direction.
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Yes, mine made a sort of chortling sound when he was getting into it. Watching the birdfeeder is the only time I heard those sounds. Living in a new place now, need to set it up again, make him feel young again I hope.
 
The kitty in the article is actually is a wild cat. They donā€™t make good pets.

What a pretty kitty face though. It sort of looks like Puss-n-boots from the Shrek films.
 
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