I've brought you a present -said by the cat

That is super cute and didn’t make me, as a cat owner, well up at al!

Oh how lovely!
I would check social media - and post in your local community group to see if anyone has lost the cat and check with a local vet to see if the youngster is chipped. Male cats are reknowned for wandering sometimes great distances.
You may be just really lucky and your old cat may well have brought you a special gift, but a good idea to make sure he isn't being missed by someone else first!

I think you have a generous and loving cat who is making sure you have the company you will need when he’s gone- how lovely!

I’m also a cat owner and I really enjoyed reading your post. Your cat sounds lovely.

Annodomini - how ungrateful you are not to be delighted by the mole offering !

Speaking of which ( or near enough ) I was once visiting a stately home and nearly got hit on the head by a dead shrew that was dropped on me from a great height. Presumably by some kind of bird ( in case you thought the resident Earl was trying to get rid of me and the other paying riff raff by throwing small dead mammals at them, obviously keeping a collection of deceased creatures for just such an occasion).
I was very lucky as if it had hit me it could have taken my eye out. And it was much smaller than I expected it to be. The shrew, not my eye. Not that I was actually expecting it at all.

It was probably someone like my mother that caused the Black Death. ??

Annodomini, you were supposed to cook the mole for his supper! No wonder he was disgruntled.

It was probably someone like my mother that caused the Black Death.
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One of my mother’s cats brought in a large LIVE rat and dropped it in the middle of our kitchen. The poor thing was frightened and making a lot of noise, then it was chaos as we were all trying to catch it ( including the other cats ).
In the end we managed to catch it with ma’s pinny and then she threw it out the back door into the yard.
Last seen heading to the outside bog.
No harm came to the rat.
My mother used to say it wasn’t the rat’s fault that the Good Lord created it a rat. She wouldn’t get the rat man out. As long as everything stayed outside she didn’t mind.
It was probably someone like my mother that caused the Black Death.

I never thought the entrails of shrews were much of a gift, but that's what my late lamented black cat brought me...until the day he presented me with a whole mole. There wasn't a mark on it and I thought it might have died of fright. I took it out and buried it in the garden with a very cross-looking Sam in attendance.

grandtante aren't animals wonderful. Your story brought tears to my eyes and your story too infinity

Oh, Infinity2, I think I like you very much! ?

How lovely, Jaffacake.

The last mouse I rescued obviously was in training for the 100 metres sprint. I have never seen anything move so fast out of our garden and down the street!

Jaffacake2 - you are kind !!

I spent five minutes gently blowing on a moth to dry its wings out, after it fell into my tea dregs.
Eventually it fluttered them and crawled onto the paper hanky I was dangling in the side of my tea cup.
I don’t want anything to die unnecessarily as all life is precious. It’s lived another day ( probably eating my coat in the hall even as I write).

That's sweet,wish my cats had brought home a feline friend rather than the collection of mice and furry animals.
The worst was a mouse seen swimming in the toilet when I went for an early morning wee.He must have been brought in and dumped in the bathroom then fell from the cistern. I remember looking at him thinking hell what do I do ? If I flushed the chain he may get caught and block the u bend. So with a full bladder I got him out using an inverted bag and throwing it out of the front door.
After work I came home to a wet empty bag on the front lawn.
The mouse swimmer had escaped to live another day !!

I went to this thread first this morning, glad I did it cheered me up, a lovely story

That made me smile grandetante lovely story, hope you will have your older cat for a while yet

Really touching story!

So sorry for your loss Infinity. So many of us have been there and understand.
Good luck with your op, I wish you a swift recovery. It’s wonderful to have the companionship of a pet. I hope you feel able to get another before too long. It would be a tribute to the love and happiness Baz gave you.

We used to have a cat - well, we thought we did. In fact she was the daughter of one of our previous cats. One day she turned up with a collar on. She still kept coming to us regularly, at one point obviously pregnant.

Our DiL said she thinks the other family (who had put the collar on her) was a relative of hers who lived in the next street to us.

Venus, as we called her, stopped coming for a while. But then one day I went down to the cellar and there was a little black kitten with neat, short hair sitting on the washing machine, just inside the window.

We took over the care of said kitten, and some time later, we were presented in the same way with another black kitten, soft and fluffy this time.

We eventually found homes for them, and their Mum stopped coming to us in the end.

We never could keep cats. 6 just upped and left, several had kittens, nearly all of which we gave away. I still love cats but I can't bear the thought of them disappearing and not knowing what's happened to them.

When I was a girl we had a cat who would chase rabbits and hares in the nearby fields. He would bring back enormous hares, dragging them between his legs, and they were sometimes twice his length. My mother cooked them but never gave any to us; it was the cat's reward.

Aveline - good luck for next week. Hope it all goes well and you recover speedily. ???

Infinity2 I know how that feels. I find myself hopefully looking out for cats to pat whenever I'm out.
After Baz died last month we're really missing feline companionship. Will have to wait a bit until after my hip replacement (next week. Eeek!)

Aww that's so lovely. What a kind cat you have. All I ever used to be brought was bread wrappers, crisp packets and huge crinkly moths (usually on my pillow at night!)

Aww, as a cat lover and owner that touches my heart. How lovely.

Awww! ❤️

We’ve had indoor cats for the last ten years so no presents of any kind. When we had a mouse inside, the cats just sat and looked at it.

My DD has a cat but next door’s cat also likes to visit her house, which her own cat isn’t too keen on. Recently, a third cat appeared in her house as well. The interloper cat from next door became a hissing ball of fur and chased off the cheeky stranger while her own cat simply sat there, watching it all unfold on his supposed territory! He’s not very bright, it has to be said.

How lovely. What a nice cat you have and I hope he and his friend will be with you for many years to come.