Carnage last night

[lalbers]

It must be summer. I have 3 indoor/outdoor cats that have a kitty door to go outside.... About 1AM, we were awakened to thumping in the bedroom, turned on the light and Phoebe, aka the insane kitten had a baby rabbit- still alive. I grabbed a towel and rescued it, but it died in my hand- they usually do, they're pretty fragile after being handled by a cat. Took it outside. Later, heard some more commotion downstairs, went to the downstairs bathroom, and found ANOTHER rabbit- without it's head. Never did find the head. Got up this morning, and found in the hall, a dead hornytoad, and a dead bat. Geeez....... Wonder what happened to the rabbit's head? Hopefully it won't wind up on my bed tonight............

[RozieDozie]

Lordy, girl, I'd close that door at night before she brings you something HUGE with teeth....

My kitty used to hunt at night. She'd bring home her prey and wouldn't shut up until I opened the door and looked at some poor half dead or all dead critter. She was quite a hunter!

One day she was sitting outside peaceful as could be when a squirrel came climbing down from a tree. Before I could stop her, she'd jumped straight in the air and caught that squirrel, then tried to put that poor bloody, struggling thing in my lap. UGH!

[bugpicker]

Years ago, our young spry cat found a rabbit hutch with little babies and brought each one of them screaming to our front door! I'd close that cat door too, with the cats on the outside of it

[BalconyFarmer]

Our landlord's cat caught a baby rabbit once. It was dead, so I didn't interrupt her, but I heard her crunching away on the corner of the deck. She walked off after 15 minutes, and when I checked, only the head was gone, munched off at the neck like a kid eats a chocolate bunny rabbit. Ears, skull, the whole thing was gone, but she left the rest of the body.

[gulfcoastguy]

Tuesday morning a 4:30 ack emma my boxer girl Trudy went out her door for a little constitutional. I heard baying and thumping and chirping. At 5 I gave up and went out. She had cornered a half grown possum next to her door. It hissed at me(all I could see was a whitish patch)I grabbed a yard rake by the big end and went to whacking. Picked it up and tossed it over the fece. I did that because last time this happened a year and a half ago she carried the possum inside strutting "I'm the big bad____" Wimp! Can't even finish off a 2 pound possum on her own.

[gulfcoastguy]

Originally Posted by RozieDozie

Lordy, girl, I'd close that door at night before she brings you something HUGE with teeth....

My kitty used to hunt at night. She'd bring home her prey and wouldn't shut up until I opened the door and looked at some poor half dead or all dead critter. She was quite a hunter!

One day she was sitting outside peaceful as could be when a squirrel came climbing down from a tree. Before I could stop her, she'd jumped straight in the air and caught that squirrel, then tried to put that poor bloody, struggling thing in my lap. UGH!

She was just trying to teach you to hunt. You were supposed to bit it on the back of it's head.

[brenda70546]

that is why i don't have doggie doors or cats lock the doors

[Silentmeow]

I have a kitty that opens the screen slider door to get in or out. All day long she will do this. She's tearing apart the screen so I thought about a pet door. Then I thought about all 5 kitties bringing in their treasures and decided to try and train the cat to not claw the screen open but meow when she wants out or in.(futile i know!)

[rockpilefarmer]

It is just the "nature" of life. Some might call it the circle of life....whatever.

If you feed the birds, you feed the squirrels, and the mice, and the packrats, and....right on up the food chain. Let nature take care of nature.

[puttgirl]

Originally Posted by BalconyFarmer

Our landlord's cat caught a baby rabbit once. It was dead, so I didn't interrupt her, but I heard her crunching away on the corner of the deck. She walked off after 15 minutes, and when I checked, only the head was gone, munched off at the neck like a kid eats a chocolate bunny rabbit. Ears, skull, the whole thing was gone, but she left the rest of the body.

Reminds me of a big orange cat I had when I was young...he'd get big rabbits, and take them into the garage. I'd go back in after the crunching was over, and all I would find was a few tufts of fur and the tail!!