Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:28 am Post subject: Eurrrgh! Nature can be SOOO gross!
Izzicat just came in via the catflap...
Asha did her usual hopeful parade around and shoving a toy in her face in the hope she'd play ...
I was busy posting on here so only had half an eye to events ...
The cat let out a frustrated meeeeooowww (nothing unusual in the face of a persistent Asha!)...
Much scrabbling, quite a kerfuffle, more scrabbling, the cat mewing ...
Catflap went again and Izzicat took her leave ...
I'm still posting on here ...
Then Asha was very intent on something in that too-quiet way that alerts you to them being up to no good (recognise that feeling??!) ...
She's chewing something earnestly and then nudges my leg, to proudly show me what she's found ...
A bleeding a still warm and TWITCHING mole. A baby one. Bleeeuuuuurrrrghhhh!!!!!
"Leave it!!"
Just finished cleaning up and Asha looks bemused as to why I wasn't as chuffed with her find as she was (even though she stole it from the cat in the first place )
Nature is grim. I love living in the country ... most of the time!
One of my cats is an avid hunter of mice and he does like to present them still alive and kicking at my feet. However if I'm not around he usually plonks them on the floor (still alive) and goes about his business.
So far Oyster has eaten two of them ....WHOLE .....She now knows he brings in *presents* so runs to greet him.....I looked round the other day to just see the tail disappearing down her throat....Nice!!!!.... At least you would have thought she would crunch them...poor little things...The last thing they see is her tonsils as they go down.
It is part and parcel of the pleasures of having a cat. Mine used to be an avid hunter, but has not been so bad of late.
Mind you, when a real live mouse did get into the living room by itself this summer was the dratted cat around to catch it for me!! Of course not. He arrived home after hubby and I had spent an entire evening doing nothing but attempt to catch it and put it out. We had just managed that and flopped down exhausted into the chairs when the cat appeared.
It is part and parcel of the pleasures of having a cat. Mine used to be an avid hunter, but has not been so bad of late.
Mind you, when a real live mouse did get into the living room by itself this summer was the dratted cat around to catch it for me!! Of course not. He arrived home after hubby and I had spent an entire evening doing nothing but attempt to catch it and put it out. We had just managed that and flopped down exhausted into the chairs when the cat appeared.
Helen.
I bet the cat was watching you through the window
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I would bet that he was too! In fact, he had probably surreptitiously dropped the live mouse in through the cat flap and sneaked off down the garden to watch discreetly from a safe distance. Must have been having a laugh.
I know whenever he has left a dead mouse or bird anywhere in the garden too, as Charlie homes straight in on them and will not leave them alone. Deaf to recall etc. so I have to go and get him, and often fish whatever putrid dead thingy out of his mouth.
It isn't just cats though, last summer Roxy found herself a goose nest, and helped herself to a nice fresh egg, when the egg cracked it revealed a very well formed gosling, which she carried to show me.
I told her to drop it, which she decided was was a ridiculous idea that only a human would think of.
She spun the little thing around and swollowed it whole, the last thing I saw was its little baby goosey legs disapearing
The week before that I had been telling everybody how wonderful she was because she bought me a baby moorehen, totally unharmed and left him when I told her to.
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.....She now knows he brings in *presents* so runs to greet him.....I looked round the other day to just see the tail disappearing down her throat....Nice!!!!.... At least you would have thought she would crunch them...poor little things...The last thing they see is her tonsils as they go down. 
Of course not. He arrived home after hubby and I had spent an entire evening doing nothing but attempt to catch it and put it out. We had just managed that and flopped down exhausted into the chairs when the cat appeared. 
