What the cat did next - to make you smile

My MIL’s cat brought home a budgie one day. Mil managed to extricate the bird but it got away from her and attacked the cat, bouncing up and down on the cat’s back, pecking his head and shrieking ‘Kick ‘im, kick ‘im!’

Mil discovered which neighbour owned the bird and returned it home but sadly it keeled over and died a few days later. ?

Years ago when my DH came home from a Sunday morning at his veterinary clinic he parked his car and then on getting out he saw a Siamese cat dragging a cooked leg of lamb down the road! Some one must have left their door open, goodness knows what they they made of the disappearing lunch!

We have closed the cat flap as we are trying hard to get rid of a feline intruder who comes in, eats our own cat's food and wees indoors. What really put the tin lid on our charitable feelings was that he has twice bitten my Trold who I then had to take to the vet!.

Far from being annoyed at having the cat flap closed, Trold is delighted that his thick-headed humans have finally done something sensible to get rid of the intruder, whom he has spent weeks sending to the right-about very loudly.

Now he only needs to fetch me when he wants out and when he wants in, I miraculously appear at the door. DH asked whether the cat was sending me text messages.

In a way, I think he is, as I just know when he is waiting to come in, carefully hidden between the up-ended wheelbarrow and the wood pile. ( It's dry there)Today, he turned up with all his fur fluffed out to persuade me that he was cold, having waited so long. That didn't work, as two minutes earlier when I looked out, he wasn't there.

Oh, I've also remembered my childhood cat, a huge tabby, who could open the fridge. One day my mum found him standing with his front paws on a fridge shelf tucking into a trifle.

I used to have a cat who brought in all sorts of wildlife like lizards, grass snakes, baby pheasants and rabbits, rodents and frogs. However, it didn't end there. On two consecutive Fridays we found a piece partly frozen fish in the hall underneath the telephone seat. I can only assume it had been left in a neighbour's kitchen to defrost. The most interesting item was a turkey carcass as big as himself which he brought through the bathroom window while I was in the bath beneath!

My daughter was spending a few days with me. I was at work the day she was leaving. She phoned me to say she had to leave immediately to catch her train and Bert, my cat , had just run into the house with a duck in his jaws. He was under the dresser and she feared I'd return to a blood stained carpet. 'Sorry Mum, I have to go and get the train right now".
"Go get the train, don't worry "said I. When I returned home to the scene of the crime I found a very frightened moorhen under the dresser. but no sign of a massacre! I popped it back in the lake and it swam away!

My DD and SIL had a lovely male cat that liked to present them with his trophies.
One weekend when we were cat sitting, I got up in the night and trod in 'something'.
It was the beak and claws of a bird. I do wish I had out the light on first.

Once of my current cats has a yen for eating sewing thread. 4 years ago, she ate not only thread, but a needle. At 2am in the morning.

One night vet visit (xray, anaesthetic, operation, overnight stay) and a 1K bill later, she was fine.

Still likes to eat thread.

Years ago, I had a big, dim, black cat. He was a very sweet boy, and his lack of intelligence was part of his charm. Once, while playing 'chase me', he ran behind the not-floor length-curtains, and sat, smugly hiding, while we all roared with laughter at his fat bum hanging out the bottom.

Despite his lack of smarts AND being very rotund, he was the most amazing hunter. My anti-cat neighbour changed his mind when fat boy dispatched several rats. He also whizzed past me in a black blur in the garden once, and I had to unclench his jaws to set a terrified bird free. He also once brought a pigeon indoors, which shed many feathers in fear, and I had to shoo it out of a skylight, because it had been struck motionless on the top of a cupboard in fear.

He was a lovely old boy though. I miss him.

Our cat Missy went through a phase of bringing in items of clothing, that weren’t ours. She brought lots of single socks of many sizes and colours, a couple of baby’s vests, a baby grow, some very crispy, nylon y fronts and some maternity knickers.

I used to wash them all, except the nasty y fronts, and keep them in a bag. I would periodically offer them to neighbours and several items including the maternity knickers were reclaimed.

We still don’t know how she got them.

Aeons ago when I was a lithe teenager wearing a pair of jersey bell bottoms our cat caught a live mouse and dropped it at my feet in the garden. I was bare footed so I gently put my foot over it to keep the cat away from it. When I lifted my foot the mouse had gone. It was up my trouser leg, running around inside my bell bottoms. A very strange feeling! I dropped my trousers on the spot, whereon it fell out and escaped.

DS didn't often have friends to stay when he was little. When he was 2, we had a 3yo friend overnight, our small cat left a headless squirrel under the table for us to find on the morning, just as the boys were getting up. A couple of years later, in a different house, same son, different friend, also a year older, same cat, different headless squirrel.

Georgesgran One of ours brought a live weasel in one day. We rescued it but it died a few minutes later. Such a pretty thing. The two we've got now are quite middle aged and very rarely catch anything.

My terrier chases the cat who chases the birds

Our current cat is a real hunter and brings us presents every so often, The funniest was one day he came through the cat flap and ran around the kitchen with a fully grown squirrel wrapped round his neck like a fur collar, the squirrel was very indignant and making a real racket we chased the cat out of the door and the squirrel jumped off him and ran away no doubt to tell all his mates he had won the fight.

We had an enormous tabby cat that appeared in the garden one day and never left. We scoured the area for his owner - various people said it belonged to a local game keeper, but he denied the cat was his. We had him 12 years and he was the most affectionate animal - but he felt the need to present me with all manner of ‘gifts’. The oddest was a fully grown stoat! How he got it through the cat flap still remains a mystery. Long gone now - being a stray, he took himself off somewhere to die, before we could help him.

We have the perfect brother and sister cats. Both 13 now.
They've never brought me in a wildlife present .
Always stayed in the garden. We have a 6ft fence all the way round and never attempted to climb it.
When they want to go to the toilet, they come in, use the litter tray and trot back outside again.
They just sit in their hidey hole( a big rabbit run with the door taken off and a sheet fastened over the top) most of the time now they're older and just watch the birds feed from our bird table.
Sometimes we get neighbours cats come into the garden and ours just scurry back into the house.
Little angels they are.

Six weeks after we got married my OH brought home a cat,she had been badly treated and was covered in oil.We washed her and she hid behind a chair for a whole week after .When she did get out she brought us home a hamster ,it was fine and she was reluctant to give it up.Afterchecking around the area and no one claiming it we bought it a cage and the cat would sit and watch it for hours on end.

When we let it out she would scoop it in beside her for a cuddle.We thought she might have had kittens and had them taken away from her.Her and Fred as we called the hamster had a brilliant relationship for almost 3 years .I've never had another cat like her.she died after 13 years and was sadly missed .

We’ve got rescue Russian Blue cats. They don’t go out and even if they did, they’d be completely incapable of catching anything.

We have had a couple of field mice indoors in the autumn. The cats just watched the mouse run around and even went up close, but made no attempt at catch it. They’re both so dumb.

One cat we had used to bring us bread wrappers, empty crisp packets and big rubber bands. Only gall bladders would be left for us to guess what poor creature they'd come from.

One of mine often finds mice and brings them in then loses them and forgets about them. One day one managed to get upstairs and into my bedroom where it ran behind a long chest of drawers. We had a patio door in there so opened it and poked about behind the cupboard with a stick - mouse shot out and raced out the patio door where it no doubt got a huge shock as it sailed off the second floor balcony onto the ground below!!

Over the years I've had frogs, rabbits, a baby hare, a lizard (never to this day do I know where that came from) and once a string of sausages courtesy of different felines

We've just moved house and have a wood behind our garden - once our male cat gets in there I dread to think what he'll bring in!!

Our beautiful delicate looking white fluffy cat is a killer so I was quite surprised to walk into the kitchen to find her sitting on the floor nose to beak with a wee bird.Neither moved so I dropped a tea towel over it and put it back outside

.I'm not sure if she was deciding whether to play with it or eat it.This morning the same cat tried to chase a squirrel up the side of the house opposite ....she soon discovered its a skill that only squirrels have.But we laughed our heads off at her .

We no longer have pets, the theory being we're going to travel and go out a lot(!).

We used to have a cat called Fred (who only answered to Frederick) and he caught furry things - not feathered. Birds were safe. In his time he brought home rabbits, rats shrews and mice. Once I was sitting enthroned in the gardeners loo by the back door when the old carpet in there started to move and twitch. I removed myself smartish and donned a pair of thick gloves before investigating the cause, gingerly lifted the corner of the carpet. It was a mole. They can move surprisingly fast! It took a while to corner and catch it as it scurried into the neighbouring junk cupboard!

Our current cats don't go out, but my daughter's think nothing of dragging fully grown squirrels and rabbits through the cat flap. Sending DGD up to get changed is often followed by a shriek as she encounters the organic dismemberment on the stairs.

We had a previous cat that lifted the next door neighbour's roast dinner and went off down the garden with it....

One of my cats was the very devil for bringing wildlife into the house, dumping it and walking off and leaving me to deal with it. On one particular day, he brought in, and I put back out, the same damned frog 4 times! That poor frog must have been dizzy!